Abstract

Altruism entails the principle and actions of caring about the welfare and joy of fellow humans or animals. Previous studies have been conducted on altruism and altruism, which has been a moral question studied by psychologists for a long time. This paper shows the literature review of many specific aspects of altruism. It presents the definition and basic descriptions of altruism with altruistic behaviors of people, diverse types of altruism with specific examples in our daily life, different explanations about the motivations of people to form altruistic behaviors, current evidence conducted around human infants to support the existence of pure altruism, as well as several researches on the effect of gender difference in the area. The results can inspire the practice and research of altruism. Based on these results, by better understanding altruism, we may apply altruism in our lives in a better way.

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