The recent COVID-19 crisis has revealed the urgent need to study impact of an infectious disease on market economies and provide adequate policy recommendations. present paper studies optimal lockdown in a dynamic general equilibrium model where households are altruistic they care about share infected individuals. spread is modeled here using SIS dynamics, which implies that recovery does not c...

The docility hypothesis holds that human social learning produces genuinely altruistic behaviors as a maladaptive by-product. This article examines five possible sources of such altruistic mistakes. The first two mechanisms, the smoke-detector principle and the cost-accuracy tradeoff, are not specifically linked to social learning. Both predict that it may be adaptive for cooperators to allow s...

Theories that reject the existence of altruism presume that emotional benefits serve as ulterior motives for doing good deeds. These theories argue that even in the absence of material and reputational benefits, individuals reap utility from the feelings associated with doing good. In response to this normative view of altruism, this article examines the descriptive question of whether laypeopl...

Background: Altruistic ethics is one of the most important topics for Muslim thinkers, especially the mystics. Among Iranian mystics, the works of Attar Neishabouri are remarkable in terms of addressing humanitarian concepts. Attar had paid particular attention to the type of human being due to the numerous works and the familiarity with the sources of jurisprudence and interpretation. This res...

Abstract It has been known that altruistic punishments solve the free rider problem in public goods games. Considering spatial structure and considering pure strategies significant advances have made understanding evolution of punishments. However, these models not considered key behavior regularities observed experimental field settings, where individuals behave like conditional cooperators wh...

Empathy has been proposed to be a proximate mechanism underlying altruistic behavior. However, both empathy and altruistic behavior differ between human individuals with low and high socioeconomic status. Here we investigated whether subjective socioeconomic status (SSS) modulates the relationship between neural activity to perceived pain in others and human altruistic behaviors in a real-life ...

Background: Previous anthropological studies suggested that altruistic punishment is important for sustaining cooperation in large groups. In the clinical literature, major depressive disorder (MDD) has been associated with guilt driven pathological altruism. However, previous neuroeconomical studies suggested that altruism in MDD does not include forms of altruistic punishment. Methods: We use...

BACKGROUND Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with functional abnormalities in fronto-meso-limbic networks contributing to decision-making, affective and reward processing impairments. Such functional disturbances may underlie a tendency for enhanced altruism driven by empathy-based guilt observed in some patients. However, despite the relevance of altruistic decisions to understandi...