PSYC23H3 Lecture 8: Attachment & Synchrony
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Maternal death related to birth (275,000 per year) From kin to non kin care and generosity (swain et al. , 2013) We argue that exclusive parenting is the ultimate foundation of non-exclusive altruism. They argue that being altruistic to people is in our. Here, we refer to this deep sense of emotional connection as compassion, defined as. The feeling that arises in witnessing another"s suffering and that motivates a subsequent desire to help (goetz, keltner, & . thus, compassion is a motivation that may suppress our own self-interest in order to promote the wellbeing of others. This is subserved by a general caregiving system (brown, brown, & preston, 2011), that operates in both parental and altruistic caregiving and makes genuine non-exclusive altruism possible. Theory that attachment is seeked because it brings us closer to our caregiver. The maximum distance observed between infants and mothers of primate species at various ages. ^ stages they go through when they are separated from their parents.
