Power and care : toward balance for our common future -- science, society, and spirituality /
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; A Call for Care in a Challenging World; Dialogues to Increase Human Well-being; About Power and Care; Introducing the Concepts of Power and Care; Overview of the Book; Creating a More Compassionate World; Notes; I. Perspectives from Ethology, Anthropology, and Ecology; Opening Address; Dialogues to Seek Answers through Investigation and Experimentation; Learnings of Mutual Benefit; Europeans-Learning from the Past and Leading for the Future; Notes; 1. The Power and Care of Primate Alpha Males; Chimpanzee Politics
- Displaying Power and Dominance in ChimpanzeesDisplaying Power and Dominance in Human Beings; Studies in Empathy and Consolation Behavior; Empathy Studies in Human Beings; What Constitutes a Good Leader?; Attributes of a Popular Alpha Male: Peacemaker and Consoler-in-Chief; Note; 2. The Transformative Power of Nurturing; Care in Early Human Origins; Hunter-Gatherer Parenting: Help from Others Is Essential for Survival; Allomaternal Assistance Helped Fuel Costly Brains; The Importance of Shared Care and Provisioning; Infants Are Conditioned to Attend to What Others Intend
- Multiple Caretakers Promote Intersubjective EngagementPsychobiological Responses in Caretakers; Can the Powerful Become More Caring?; Notes; 3. We Depend on a Harmonious Planet to Support Humanity; From a Small World on a Large Planet, to a Large World on a Small Planet; Welcome to the Anthropocene; The Great Acceleration of Pressures on Our Planet; The Golden Age for Humanity; Hitting the Ceiling to Support Humanity; Everything We Cherish Has Settled into the Holocene; Facing Potentially Catastrophic Tipping Points; Anthropocene+Holocene+Tipping Points=Planetary Boundaries
- Delivering a Better, More Harmonious Future for HumanityNotes; II. Perspectives from Psychology, Endocrinology, and Neuroscience; 4. Psychological Considerations of the Power Motive; What Is a Power Motive?; How to Assess One's Power Motive; Social Consequences of Power; Embracing Our Power for the Benefit of Humankind; Notes; 5. The Biology of Care: Social Hormones in the Human Brain; The Breastfeeding Hormone Oxytocin and the Chemistry of Care; The Role of Oxytocin in Regulating Stress; Oxytocin and Empathy, Care, and Attachment; Notes
- 6. Perspectives from Contemplative Neuroscience on Power and Care: How to Train Care and CompassionDesign of The ReSource Project, a One-Year-Long Longitudinal Study to Increase Compassion and Human Prosociality; The Two Different Networks of Understanding Others; Training Compassion and Care; Theory of Mind; Structural Plasticity of the Brain: Increasing Gray Matter of the Brain through Training; Compassion Training to Improve Prosocial Behavior and Cooperation; Using The ReSource Project Data in Economics; Experiments to Induce Care in the Context of Decision-Making