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| Title |
The Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, June 2009
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0005802 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Peter DeScioli, Robert Kurzban |
| Abstract |
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 use game theory to identify computations about friends that can increase performance in multi-agent conflicts. This analysis suggests that people would benefit from: 1) ranking friends, 2) hiding friend-ranking, and 3) ranking friends according to their own position in partners' rankings. These possible tactics motivate the hypotheses that people possess egocentric and allocentric representations of the social world, that people are motivated to conceal this information, and that egocentric friend-ranking is determined by allocentric representations of partners' friend-rankings (more than others' traits). |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 9% |
| Philippines | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 7 | 64% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 91% |
| Scientists | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 212 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 1% |
| Hungary | 2 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Romania | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 190 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 46 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 37 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 25 | 12% |
| Researcher | 24 | 11% |
| Professor | 19 | 9% |
| Other | 47 | 22% |
| Unknown | 14 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 87 | 41% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 31 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 31 | 15% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 3% |
| Other | 26 | 12% |
| Unknown | 23 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 November 2023.
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#2,893
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#29
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