Teleological Behaviorism And Altruism

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Article

Publication Date

4-1-2002

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Behavioral And Brain Sciences

Abstract

Rachlin shows that experiments about social cooperation may fruitfully be grouped with experiments on self-control, and that this suggests interesting possibilities for practical behavioral controls. The concepts of selfishness and altruism, however, that inform his theorizing about these experiments, do not serve to provide understanding of the behavior that commonly is referred to, derogatorily, as selfish.

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