Altruistic learning

The origin of altruism remains one of the most enduring puzzles of human behaviour. Indeed, true altruism is often thought either not to exist, or to arise merely as a miscalculation of otherwise selfish behaviour. In this paper, we argue that altruism emerges directly from the way in which distinct...

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Main Authors: Ben Seymour, Wako Yoshida, Ray Dolan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2009-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.08.023.2009/full