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Social discounting and distance perceptions in costly altruism

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Published in 2017 at "Nature Human Behaviour"

DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0100

Abstract: Extraordinary acts of altruism towards strangers represent puzzling phenomena not easily explained by dominant biological models of altruism, such as kin selection and reciprocity1–3. These theories stipulate that genetically or socially close others should be… read more here.

Keywords: costly altruism; social discounting; discounting; discounting distance ... See more keywords