How to tell when someone's greed is excessive and damaging to their relationships
Greed doesn’t seem to be sufficient to cause criminal activity, but how about plain selfish activity? Seuntjens found that people who score higher on the Dispositional Greed Scale tend to place their own interests above others. For example, in an experiment known as the Dictator Game, participants received $10 and had to decide how to distribute it between themselves and another participant, with no negative consequences even if they chose to keep the full amount for themselves.
In a study of children ages 4 to 6, Erin Sparks, Meghan Schnikel, and Chris Moore found that kids have a tendency toward. And this generous impulse — in this case, a willingness to share their stickers — was heightened when they felt even a slight sense of in-group membership or shared interests with the other children.
And research consistently reveals that the very act of being generous and helping others simply feels good. In psychology, this phenomenon has been given the nickname “helper’s high.”In short, it seems that most of us are at least somewhat greedy and also at least somewhat generous. This push-pull of selfishand selfless dedication is the balance that has led our species to thrive. Either extreme of too much greed, or too much generosity, throws us and our relationships off balance.
Last but not least, be sure not to fall into the evolutionary trap of tending to a narrow in-group. Though we survived by focusing on a small tribe, in the modern world, our survival depends on our ability to cooperate on a much greater scale. Especially in times of scarcity, uncertainty, and high
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