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Altruistic behavior refers to behavior that benefits someone other than the individual engaging in the behavior

Altruistic exhortations refers to verbal encouragement to help, comfort, share, or cooperate with others

Altruistic helping is a term used when a helper seeks to increase another’s welfare and expects nothing in return

Altruistic motivation refers to a motive for helping purely for the sake of providing benefit to another person

Altruistic personality refers to
the aspects of a person's makeup that are said to make him or her likely to help others in a wide variety of situations

Altruistic punishment refers to the finding that people will sometimes sacrifice their own gain for the betterment of all, by punishing people who cheat the system

Altruistic suicide refers to a type of suicide committed by people who believe that taking their own lives will benefit society. Altruistic suicide is undertaken on behalf of one's social group ; a sociological category in which suicide is said to arise from an over-involvement or over-integration of an individual into his or her society

Altruistic surrender refers to an ego-defence mechanism postulated by Anna Freud by which a person internalizes the values of another person and lives his or her life in accordance with those values.