The pain of altruism

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 2014 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Trends in Cognitive Sciences, volume 18, pages 615-617 (issn: 1364-6613,

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Authors: Barbara L, Finlay; Supriya, Syal;

doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.08.002

pmid: 25200380

The pain of altruism

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Abstract

Sociality and cooperation are benefits to human cultures but may carry unexpected costs. We suggest that both the human experience of pain and the expression of distress may result from many causes not experienced as painful in our close primate relatives, because human ancestors motivated to ask for help survived in greater numbers than either the thick-skinned or the stoic.

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Keywords

Communication, Brain, Pain, Models, Psychological, Altruism, Biological Evolution, Animals, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Cooperative Behavior

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