Parochial Altruism: Pitfalls and Prospects

• Main Author: Hannes Rusch (auth)
• Other Authors: Benedikt Herrmann (auth), Robert Bohm (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; in-group favoritism; In-group love; Intergroup conflict; Out-group hate; prosociality; Discrimination; intergroup relations; evolution; Parochial altruism
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A number of recent influential publications have promoted the idea that the high levels of altruism and violent intergroup conflicts observed in humans might be the result of a joint evolution of behavioral traits causing cooperativeness among group members ('in-group love') and spite and...