One of my first posts on this blog described the tendency of humans to behave in a manner which is ultimately self-serving. We consider the interests of ourselves over others. I called this selfishness, with a note that one should disregard the negative connotations of the word.
Months later, browsing the excellent TED talk archives I have come across Daniel Goleman's talk "Why aren't we all good samaritans"; a promenant psychologist, essentially supporting the theory (albeit indirectly) that we do principally, act to serve ourselves or our emotional need. Even, or rather especially in 'selfless' acts such as giving to charity; we get an emotional 'hit' by doing so. Yannis made some interesting points also supported in this talk. Check it here.
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