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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 110, 期 36, 页码 14586-14591出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221217110
关键词
development; population differences; gene-culture coevolution
资金
- UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, University of Sheffield
- Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program
- National Science Foundation
- AHRC [119413/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [119413/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Humans are an exceptionally cooperative species, but there is substantial variation in the extent of cooperation across societies. Understanding the sources of this variability may provide insights about the forces that sustain cooperation. We examined the ontogeny of prosocial behavior by studying 326 children 3-14 y of age and 120 adults from six societies (age distributions varied across societies). These six societies span a wide range of extant human variation in culture, geography, and subsistence strategies, including foragers, herders, horticulturalists, and urban dwellers across the Americas, Oceania, and Africa. When delivering benefits to others was personally costly, rates of prosocial behavior dropped across all six societies as children approached middle childhood and then rates of prosociality diverged as children tracked toward the behavior of adults in their own societies. When prosocial acts did not require personal sacrifice, prosocial responses increased steadily as children matured with little variation in behavior across societies. Our results are consistent with theories emphasizing the importance of acquired cultural norms in shaping costly forms of cooperation and creating cross-cultural diversity.
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