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Jean Decety

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Professor | University of Chicago Cognitive Neuroscience - Social Neuroscience - Psychology - Morality - Evolution
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Être altruiste rend-il heureux ?

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By Jean Decety
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L’altruisme est un comportement central dans l’histoire évolutive de l’être humain. En biologie de l’évolution, il est défini comme un comportement qui implique un coût pour celui qui agit, un renoncement partiel à ses propres ressources, qu’il s’agisse de temps, d’énergie ou d’argent, au bénéfice d’autrui. L’altruisme se distingue ainsi de notions plus floues, comme la bienveillance ou la gentillesse, qui, elles, ne coûtent rien, a priori.
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The Dark Side of Moral Conviction-Integrating Political Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience

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By Jean Decety, Michael Cohen, Qiongwen Cao
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Morality is a fundamental aspect of our humanity, contributing to large-scale cooperation. The extent to which a person considers a given topic (e.g., gender equality, drug addiction, climate change, abortion, medically assisted suicide, or commercial meat production) to fall within the moral domain has wide-ranging consequences. This is particularly the case when moral beliefs are held with strong conviction and perceived as objectively true and universally applicable.
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L’empathie nous lie aux autres autant qu’elle nous aveugle

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By Jean Decety
| AOC media
L’empathie nous lie aux autres autant qu’elle nous aveugle L’empathie joue un rôle fondamental dans la motivation à vouloir le bien-être d’autrui. Mais la portée morale de l’empathie est ambiguë car elle est volatile, fragile et limitée par des biais cognitifs. Connaitre son origine évolutive, ses mécanismes biologiques et psychologiques permet de mieux la déployer de manière efficace et juste.
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