PSYCH 2C03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Inclusive Fitness, Ingroups And Outgroups, Pluralistic Ignorance
10 Dec 2014
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Everyday scenarios vs. life or death scenarios and likeliness of. Helping: kinship degree of relatedness was positively correlated with likeliness of helping. Higher positive correlation factor in life or death. Everyday situation, likeliness of helping was associated with either very young or old. Life or death scenarios, likeliness of helping was associated with genetically viable targets (age 1 to. 18: sex female sex was more likely to be helped. Highly adaptive for individual to be able to discern between freeloaders and those who will reciprocate. Reciprocal altruism perspective we will help others as long as we believe the favour will be returned later: ground squirrel making a predator call. Value of learning to help others, virtually a norm in every society. People are genetically programmed to learn norms, and altruism is a norm: those who cooperate, survive, people help others because these 3 factors, ingrained in the genes:
