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Meaning of altruistic

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Meaning of altruistic in English

altruistic
adjective

UK

/ˌæl.truˈɪs.tɪk/ US

/ˌæl.truˈɪs.tɪk/

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showing a wish to help or bring advantages to others, even if


it results in disadvantage for yourself:

I doubt whether her motives for donating the money are altruistic -
she's probably looking for publicity.

Synonym

selfless approving

Opposites

egocentric

egoistic

self-centred UK disapproving
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 handout
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(Definition of altruistic from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge

University Press)

EXAMPLES OF ALTRUISTIC
altruistic
Here, altruistic players always do better than selfish players if they are fully altruistic or if the game is
symmetric.

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Every outcome is therefore rationalizable in the game with altruistic players.

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Altruistic players in this region do not have dominant strategies; this introduces uncertainty over the
other's strategy.

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Humans are typically not very altruistic in situations where theory cannot find any long-term net
benefits.

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The patterns of those acts (patriotic, ethical, altruistic), perhaps supported during their formation by
a scaffold of extrinsic reinforcement, must be highly valuable in themselves.
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This passage is somewhat confusing because it is not clear how one should understand the
expression "altruistic act" appearing within it.

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It is easier to be altruistic during economically good times than during bad times.

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Higher persistence is associated with larger (absolute) tax elasticities, even if the model allows
for altruistic bequests.

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Acts that appear altruistic may turn out to serve self-interest indirectly when account is taken of
side-effects (rewards and punishments), or delayed effects (reputation).

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But it is not possible to determine that a separate altruism mechanism exists by the absence of
reinforcement (immediate or delayed) of particular altruistic acts.

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The parent's donation is not altruistic because altruistic acts are not obligatory but optional, and
they are motivated solely or primarily by other-regarding concerns.

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Another has been confidence that evolutionary theorists have available adequate explanations for
the existence of apparently altruistic behavior.

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