Dan Batson is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He has studied empathy as a possible source of altruistic motivation and the psychological implications of the egoism-altruism relationship. He has also researched other sources of positive social motivation, such as collectivism and principalism. He wrote The Altruism Question: Toward a Social-Psychological Answer (Erlbaum, 1991) and “Addressing the Altruism Question Experimentally” in Altruism and Altruistic Love (Oxford University Press, 2002).
| Website | http://psych.ku.edu/people/emeritus_faculty/batson_daniel.shtml |
| Email address | dbatson@ku.edu |
| Phone number | 785-864-5696 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Ethics, Health care, Money & giving, Science & health, Society & culture |
| Locations | Kansas, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Languages | English |