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Valuable reputation gained by altruistic behavioral patterns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

Claus Wedekind
Affiliation:
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JT, Scotland, United Kingdom [email protected]

Abstract

On a proximate level, altruism may well be a temporally extended pattern of behavior that often seems to be maintained without extrinsic rewards (we may find it just valuable to be an altruistic person). However, recent theory and experiments have uncovered significant and often nonobvious extrinsic rewards for “altruistic” behavioral patterns. Ultimately, these patterns may mostly lead to a net benefit.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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