The alliance hypothesis for human friendship.

<h4>Background</h4>Exploration of the cognitive systems underlying human friendship will be advanced by identifying the evolved functions these systems perform. Here we propose that human friendship is caused, in part, by cognitive mechanisms designed to assemble support groups for poten...

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Main Authors: Peter DeScioli, Robert Kurzban
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7beade0dcd47401eaadc4c027bc6591f
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