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| Title |
The emergence of human prosociality: aligning with others through feelings, concerns, and norms
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, July 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00822 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Keith Jensen, Amrisha Vaish, Marco F. H. Schmidt |
| Abstract |
The fact that humans cooperate with nonkin is something we take for granted, but this is an anomaly in the animal kingdom. Our species' ability to behave prosocially may be based on human-unique psychological mechanisms. We argue here that these mechanisms include the ability to care about the welfare of others (other-regarding concerns), to "feel into" others (empathy), and to understand, adhere to, and enforce social norms (normativity). We consider how these motivational, emotional, and normative substrates of prosociality develop in childhood and emerged in our evolutionary history. Moreover, we suggest that these three mechanisms all serve the critical function of aligning individuals with others: Empathy and other-regarding concerns align individuals with one another, and norms align individuals with their group. Such alignment allows us to engage in the kind of large-scale cooperation seen uniquely in humans. |
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 % |
|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 1 | 9% |
| Germany | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 7 | 64% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 73% |
| Scientists | 3 | 27% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 210 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 198 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 46 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 39 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 32 | 15% |
| Researcher | 23 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 10% |
| Other | 26 | 12% |
| Unknown | 24 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 103 | 49% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 19 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 5% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 31 | 15% |
| Unknown | 36 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. 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 12 April 2021.
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