Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective

1. Altruism in Its Personal, Social, and Cultural Contexts: An Introduction
Juris G. Draguns

2. Conceptual Aspects of Altruism in Cross-Cultural Contexts
Sandi W. Smith, Maria Knight Lapinski, Mary J. Bresnahan, Stacy L. Smith

3. Cross-Cultural Variation in Altruism: Traditional Parental Manipulation and Ancestor-Descendant Conflict
Kathryn Coe, Craig T. Palmer

4. Guatemalan Adolescents’ Reports of Helping in Urban and Rural Mayan Communities
Judith L. Gibbons

5. Do We Really Like the Kind Girls and Animals?: Cross-Cultural Analysis of Altruism in Folktales
Alexandra Arkhipova, Artem Kozmin

6. Cultural Values and Volunteering: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Henrietta Grönlund

7. Daoism and Altruism: A China–USA Perspective
Yueh-Ting Lee, Wenting Chen, Sydney Xinni Chan

8. Altruism in Indian Religions: Embracing the Biosphere
Abhik Gupta

9. Altruism, Renouncing the Renunciant: A Discussion on Desire and Selflessness
Sangeetha Menon

10. Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Is Altruism Integral?
Joan Koss-Chioino

11. Altruism in Human Ritual
Garry Chick

12. Epilogue
Lewis Aptekar

13. Afterword
Stephen G. Post, Matthew T. Lee

Keywords: Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Philosophy of Biology, Biological Psychology