On the psychology of cooperation in humans and other primates: Combining the natural history and experimental evidence of prosociality

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1553, 2010, Pages 2723-2735

  Jaeggi, Adrian V ^a   Burkart, Judith M ^a   Van Schaik, Carel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Costly signalling; Food sharing; Other regarding preferences; Reciprocal altruism; Reputation

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGY; RECIPROCITY; RELATEDNESS; SIGNALING;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77957278892     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0118     Document Type: Review

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