Scott Huettel, associate professor of psychology at Duke University Medical Center, says, "Perhaps altruism did not grow out of a warm-glow feeling of doing good for others, but out of the simple recognition that that thing over there is a person that has intentions and goals. And therefore, I might want to treat them like I might want them to treat myself." Link via Boing Boing
Scott Huettel, associate professor of psychology at Duke University Medical Center, says, "Perhaps altruism did not grow out of a warm-glow feeling of doing good for others, but out of the simple recognition that that thing over there is a person that has intentions and goals. And therefore, I might want to treat them like I might want them to treat myself." Link via Boing Boing