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  Monitor on Psychology
Volume 37, No. 11 December 2006

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Why we give

What makes us altruistic?

In a culture focused on self-advancement, why do we give our time to our communities? Share our skills with others? Aid those less fortunate?

In this season of giving we look to psychologists’ research for answers.

Helping others, helping ourselves

Donating their time

Helping kids care

Altruism: an accident of nature?

 

 
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