Title: Completed Egoism and Intended Altruism Boost Healthy Food Choices Completed Egoism and Intended Altruism Boost Healthy Food Choices 1 Completed Egoism and Intended Altruism Boost Healthy Food Choices 2

Completed egoism and intended altruism boost healthy food choices.

Based on the self-licensing literature and goal theory, we expected and found that completed (im)moral actions lead to markedly different food choices (Studies 1 & 2) than intended (im)moral actions (Study 2). In Study 1, people more often chose healthy over unhealthy food options when they recalled a completed egoistic action than when they recalled a completed altruistic action. Study 2 confi...

Ayn Rand’s Egoism: Theory and Analysis

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American philosopher, novelist, and playwright, whose interpretation of ethical egoism is one of the most important interpretations of this theory.  Rand is a proponent of intellectual egoism, and rationalism is a fundamental element in her ethical theory. This article attempts to review, analyze, and criticize her interpretation of ethical egoism.   Additionally, an...

Relational Desires and Empirical Evidence against Psychological Egoism

Roughly, psychological egoism is the thesis that all of a person's intentional actions are ultimately self-interested in some sense; psychological altruism is the thesis that some people's intentional actions are ultimately otherregarding in some sense. C. Daniel Batson and other social psychologists have argued that there are experiments that provide support for a theory called the ―empathy-al...

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About the Origin of Cooperation and Its Relation with Altruism and Egoism