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Altruistic behavior

Group Selection as Behavioral Adaptation to Systematic Risk

Ruixun Zhang, Thomas J. Brennan, Andrew W. Lo

published 29 Oct 2014

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Cognitive Ability and the Demand for Redistribution

Johanna Mollerstrom, David Seim

published 24 Oct 2014

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Risking Your Life without a Second Thought: Intuitive Decision-Making and Extreme Altruism

David G. Rand, Ziv G. Epstein

published 15 Oct 2014

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Gender-Specific Effects of Depression and Suicidal Ideation in Prosocial Behaviors

Ricardo Cáceda, Tori Moskovciak, Stefania Prendes-Alvarez, Justyna Wojas, Anzhelika Engel, Samantha H. Wilker, Jorge L. Gamboa, Zachary N. Stowe

published 26 Sep 2014

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Differential Reward Learning for Self and Others Predicts Self-Reported Altruism

Youngbin Kwak, John Pearson, Scott A. Huettel

published 12 Sep 2014

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Pointing Behavior in Infants Reflects the Communication Partner’s Attentional and Knowledge States: A Possible Case of Spontaneous Informing

Xianwei Meng, Kazuhide Hashiya

published 11 Sep 2014

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Benevolent Characteristics Promote Cooperative Behaviour among Humans

Valerio Capraro, Conor Smyth, Kalliopi Mylona, Graham A. Niblo

published 20 Aug 2014

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Religious Pro-Sociality? Experimental Evidence from a Sample of 766 Spaniards

Pablo Brañas-Garza, Antonio M. Espín, Shoshana Neuman

published 12 Aug 2014

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‘Adoption’ by Maternal Siblings in Wild Chimpanzees

Catherine Hobaiter, Anne Marijke Schel, Kevin Langergraber, Klaus Zuberbühler

published 01 Aug 2014

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Does Competition Really Bring Out the Worst? Testosterone, Social Distance and Inter-Male Competition Shape Parochial Altruism in Human Males

Esther Kristina Diekhof, Susanne Wittmer, Luise Reimers

published 30 Jul 2014

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The Effects of Within- and Between-Group Competition on Trust and Trustworthiness among Acquaintances

Guofang Liu, Chongde Lin, Ziqiang Xin

published 18 Jul 2014

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Mothers More Altruistic than Fathers, but Only When Bearing Responsibility Alone: Evidence from Parental Choice Experiments in Tanzania

Jana Vyrastekova, Janine Huisman, Idda Mosha, Jeroen Smits

published 25 Jun 2014

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Aspiration-Based Partner Switching Boosts Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Zhi Li, Zhihu Yang, Te Wu, Long Wang

published 04 Jun 2014

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