egoistic helping

a form of helping behavior in which the goal of the helper is to increase his or her positive feelings or to receive some other benefit. For example, someone may make a large donation to an institution with the expressed interest of having a building named in his or her honor.

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July 27th 2024

Flynn effect

the gradual cross-cultural rise in raw scores obtained on measures of general intelligence. These increases have been roughly 9 points per generation (i.e., 30 years). The gains have been unequally distributed across the different kinds of abilities, with fluid abilities showing substantially greater gains than crystallized abilities (see Cattell–Horn theory of intelligence). [James Flynn (1934– ), New Zealand philosopher who first documented its occurrence]