Passion and Compassion: Psychology of Kin Relations within and Beyond the Family

Family is special. People avoid sexual contact with close relatives, but at the same time are highly beneficent toward them. Such discriminatory behavior is guided by a set of psychological mechanisms, heuristics that facilitate evolutionarily adaptive behavior most of the time but may lead to overp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ackerman, Joshua, Park, Justin H.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77619