PSYC 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Shavit, Nepotism, Thought Experiment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3100
• Professor: Pat Barclay

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Ha(cid:373)ilto(cid:374)"s rule: a(cid:374) orga(cid:374)is(cid:373) (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e(cid:374)efit i(cid:374) helpi(cid:374)g relati(cid:448)es (cid:449)he(cid:374) rb>c. Why learn to identify kin: help them (willingness to aid, food sharing, support in violent conflict, avoid harming them too much (less harm to kin than non-kin, avoid mating with them (they carry similar gene, or recessive genes) Thought experiment: your 7-year-old cousin, your 75-year-old grandmother, and a 21-year-old acquaintance are all asleep in different rooms of a rapidly burning house, and you have time to rescue only one. Who do you help: relatedness is a factor for who you are going to help, relatedness matters when we hold everything else equal, especially in the life and death situation. What"s spe(cid:272)ial a(cid:271)out fa(cid:373)ily: friendship based on reciprocity (and mutual choice, prediction: more willingness to tolerate asymmetry in relationships with kin, exchange of garden labour, more asymmetry of exchange is tolerated between households with greater relatedness (r=. 76, p