The alliance hypothesis for human friendship

Exploration of the cognitive systems underlying human friendship will be advanced by identifying the evolved functions these systems perform. Here we propose that human friendship is caused, in part, by cognitive mechanisms designed to assemble support groups for potential conflicts. We use game the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2009-06, Vol.4 (6), p.e5802-e5802
Hauptverfasser:	DeScioli, Peter, Kurzban, Robert
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Altruism Behavior Cognition Cognitive ability Conflicts Cooperative Behavior Empirical analysis Evolutionary Biology/Animal Behavior Evolutionary Biology/Human Evolution Familiarity Female Friends - psychology Friendship Game theory Humans Hypotheses International relations Male Mediation Models, Statistical Multiagent systems Neuroscience/Experimental Psychology Neuroscience/Psychology Perceptions Predictions Ranking Regression Analysis Representations Self evaluation Social aspects Social Facilitation Social networks Social psychology Social Support Tactics Trends
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