Altruism among relatives and non-relatives

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-123

  Rachlin, Howard ^a   Jones, Bryan A ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altruism; Kin recognition; Kin selection; Relatedness; Social discounting; Social distance

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KIN RECOGNITION; KIN SELECTION; RELATEDNESS;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HUMAN; KIN SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PROBABILITY; RELATIVE; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALTRUISM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FAMILY; GROUP STRUCTURE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 48949106958     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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