articlePLoS ONEOct 7, 2011GOLD OA

Fairness Expectations and Altruistic Sharing in 15-Month-Old Human Infants

MFMarco F. H. SchmidtJAJessica A. Sommerville

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · University of Washington

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Abstract

Human cooperation is a key driving force behind the evolutionary success of our hominin lineage. At the proximate level, biologists and social scientists have identified other-regarding preferences--such as fairness based on egalitarian motives, and altruism--as likely candidates for fostering large-scale cooperation. A critical question concerns the ontogenetic origins of these constituents of cooperative behavior, as well as whether they emerge independently or in an interrelated fashion. The answer to this question will shed light on the interdisciplinary debate regarding the significance of such preferences for explaining how humans become such cooperative beings. We investigated 15-month-old infants'…

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  • Altruism (biology)
  • Prosocial behavior
  • Social psychology
  • Inequity aversion
  • Psychology
  • Task (project management)
  • Helping behavior
  • Economics
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