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Helping decisions and kin recognition in long-tailed tits
Most cooperative breeders live in discrete family groups, but in a minority, breeding populations comprise extended social networks of conspecifics that vary in relatedness. Selection for effective kin recognition may be...
The long-term experiences of surrogates
contact psychological health relationship surrogacy surrogacy family surrogate mother Adult Attitude to Health Family Female Fertilization in Vitro health status Helping Behavior Humans Insemination Artificial Heterologous Interpersonal Relations Interview Psychological Lost to Follow-Up Middle Aged motivation patient satisfaction Pregnancy risk Stress Psychological Surrogate Mothers United Kingdom
Ageing is associated with disrupted reinforcement learning whilst learning to help others is preserved.
Jo Cutler, Marco K Wittmann, Ayat Abdurahman, Luca D Hargitai, Daniel Drew, Masud Husain, Patricia L Lockwood
Aug 11, 2021
Does empathy predict altruism in the wild?
Richard AI Bethlehem, Carrie Allison, Emma M van Andel, Alexander I Coles, Kimberley Neil, Simon Baron-Cohen
Dec 20, 2016
The evolution of early-life effects on social behaviour-why should social adversity carry over to the future?
Numerous studies have shown that social adversity in early life can have long-lasting consequences for social behaviour in adulthood, consequences that may in turn be propagated to future generations. Given these...
Helping others or oneself
Despite the frequency with which individuals compare themselves to a benchmark, little research has examined the implications of such comparisons on willingness to help others. Such comparisons can vary in direction by...