PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reciprocal Altruism, Pole And Polar, Payphone
18 Jun 2020
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What is prosocial: helping someone out but it also benefits us you. Altruism: no benefit to you at all and theres sallys a cost to you. We act in a way that helps us preserve our genes. There"s a genetic component to prosocial bc its adaptive. Adaptive either helps us or helps us pass on our genes. We look to the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (eea) to answer these questions. Ie. w sugar, humans may not have been able to have a lot of sugar when we first came about so when they saw sugar, they would have a lot. Now we eat sugary foods bc our brains were formed in eea. Any genes that further our genes are selected by eea. anything that helped us survive the. We save people that are related to us because it helps us pass on our genes as they have some of our genes as well.
