Pro-sociality without empathy

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 910-912

  Vasconcelos, Marco ^a,b   Hollis, Karen ^c,d   Nowbahari, Elise ^d   Kacelnik, Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Empathy; Goal directedness; Intentionality; Pro social behaviour

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EMERGENCE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84869794941     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0554     Document Type: Review

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