An Evolutionary Model of the Environmental Conditions that Shape the Development of Prosociality

The current review presents a model for how prosocial development is driven by sociocognitive mechanisms that have been shaped by natural selection to translate critical environmental factors into locally adaptive levels of prosociality. This is done through a synthesis of two existing literatures....

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Main Author: Daniel Tumminelli O'Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-04-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200207