But it need not be that altruistic.

Society increasingly demands that these corporate citizens be altruistic, just as people are.

The motives were not always altruistic, but countries seeking to develop could benefit from that interest.

Which led one scientist to declare that altruistic punishment may be the glue that holds societies together.

Or their altruistic or their charitable giving behavior might be influenced by their coworkers, or by their neighbors.

Or your resolution may have been more altruistic to help those in need, or to reduce your carbon footprint.

To be altruistic, do something kind for somebody else and when you do that, don't expect something in return.

A recent study suggests that having employees complete occasional altruistic tasks throughout the day increases their sense of overall productivity.

Of course, he did mainly fill his own pockets and his social and political activities certainly were not entirely altruistic, either.

To be sure, the selfish gene needs to be altruistic insofar as its survival depends on the survival of the kinship group.

Nor are they set to become a benevolent, altruistic power, ready to use their new strength and reputation to improve the stability of the international system.

But, although al Ahmar announced that he was appalled by the use of force and vowed to defend the constitution, his decision was anything but altruistic.

Well, my undergraduates and the people I work with haven't discovered this, so we actually have people do something altruistic and do something fun, and to contrast it.

But the attacks of hardened terrorists, cruel blockades or military aggression could never cause the Cuban people to abandon the achievements of their revolution and their noble and altruistic social system.

While President Bashar al Assad s regime remains vicious and tyrannical, and some of its opponents motives remain altruistic, the conflict can no longer be defined simply as one of good versus evil.

How can one distinguish a donation that is voluntary and altruistic from one that is forced or coerced from, for example, a submissive spouse, an in law, a servant, a slave, an employee?

How can one distinguish a donation that is voluntary and altruistic from one that is forced or coerced from, for example, a submissive spouse, an in law, a servant, a slave, an employee?

Experimental economists have found that people will sacrifice their own resources to punish cheaters and free riders, and will do this even to anonymous strangers that they will never again interact with a behavior dubbed altruistic punishment.

But that does not mean that a corporation is the right entity to engage in altruism though its various stakeholders obviously can spend any portion of the income they earn from the corporation and other sources in altruistic ways.

Despite some of the more fevered declarations made by Kouchner and other human rights activists, states do not tend to behave altruistically, and electorates do not tend to wish to see their sons and daughters kill and die in altruistic wars.

Then I started to think about the people in the Himalayas whose cataracts would be helped, and I realized that I went from this kind of narcissistic self focus to altruistic joy, to feeling good for the people that were being helped.

Admittedly, not all of this giving is altruistic. New York s Lincoln Center announced last month that the billionaire entertainment industry mogul David Geffen has donated 100 million toward the renovation of its concert facility, Avery Fisher Hall, on the condition that it is renamed David Geffen Hall.

Then I started to think about the people in the Himalayas whose cataracts would be helped, and I realized that I went from this kind of narcissistic self focus to altruistic joy, to feeling good for the people that were being helped. I think that's a motivator.