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How does the sense of basic fairness--or selflessness versus selfishness--arise? How is it exhibited behaviorally? How is it maintained? Few topics hold more contemporary significance or have proved more elusive to specification in precise scientific terms. Current research perspectives on altruism, narcissism, and comity by distinguished behavioral scientists from around the world were brought together in a special issue of Current Psychology (Summer 1998) and are offered here in a useful compendium.

Chapters and contributors include: Equity, Justice, and Altruism by Graham F. Wagstaff; Reactions to the Fate of One's Brainchild After Its Disclosure by Sidney Rosen and Shannon Wheatman; Need Norm, Demographic Influence, Social Role, and Justice Judgment by Helen E. Linkey and Sheldon Alexander; Adaptive and Maladaptive Narcissism by Robert W. Hill and Greg Yousey; Perceptions of Self-Oriented and Other-Oriented Help-Providers by Mark A. Barnett, Guy D. Vitaglione, Jeffrey S. Bartel, Birgit S. Valdez, Lee Ann Steadman, and Kimberly K. G. Harper; and Pathological Narcissism and Serial Homicide by Louis B. Schlesinger. Altruism, Narcissism, Comity will benefit students, researchers, and practitioners in the psychological sciences, sociology, political science, philosophy, law, and other disciplines concerned with the nature of selflessness, heroism, justice, and their variants.

Nathaniel J. Pallone (1935-2004) was university distinguished professor of psychology at the Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. His published works include Mental Disorder among Prisoners.