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The Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship

BACKGROUND: Exploration of the cognitive systems underlying human friendship will be advanced by identifying the evolved functions these systems perform. Here we propose that human friendship is caused, in part, by cognitive mechanisms designed to assemble support groups for potential conflicts. We...

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Autores principales: DeScioli, Peter, Kurzban, Robert
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2688027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19492066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005802