Other reasons for it include gaining self-esteem, presenting oneself as caring, and avoiding censure for failing to live up to the expectation of help.
One explanation for this phenomenon, with regards to children, is that society gains when children are helped because this allows the human race to continue to survive. Other reasons for it include gaining self-esteem, presenting oneself as caring, and avoiding censure for failing to live up to the expectation of help. For 10 points, psychologists have established an evolutionary source for what practice, an unselfish interest in helping others?
One explanation for this phenomenon, with regards to children, is that society gains when children are helped because this allows the human race to continue to survive.
{altruism} [liberally accept equivalents]