PSYC 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Reciprocal Altruism, Sociobiology, Nepotism

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3300
• Professor: Ken Cramer

Document Summary

Fitness: make copies of yourself, your copies must survive as well. It can mean cooperation, physical size, strength, aggression if it is for survival. We are much more likely to help others who look like us. It"s innate that we do what we do. Sociobiology says no; there must be a selfish reason. Kin altruism sociobiology calls it nepotism (we help those who are similar to us) Reciprocal altruism i will help you if you help me (we do help strangers but for selfish reasons) Men look for reproductive value young age and health so women show youth and beauty to men. Women look for ambition, wealth, resources so men show the money. Women invest more time in their children because she is more certain that the child is hers, whereas men are uncertain. Men therefore go around and make more babies.