Helping More Likely With Close Kin Than More Distant Kin

Hans-Mikael Hämäläinen; Antti Olavi Tanskanen; Mirkka Johanna Emilia Danielsbacka

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1545

Helping More Likely With Close Kin Than More Distant Kin

Hans-Mikael Hämäläinen, Antti Olavi Tanskanen, Mirkka Johanna Emilia Danielsbacka

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Abstract

Humans are prosocial species and typically provide help to one another. The term help can be defined as active and voluntary acts, including the transfer of any resources (e.g., time, money, material) from one individual to another. In evolutionary studies, contact and emotional closeness are often used as proxies for help because they tend to strongly correlate with several forms of support. According to kin selection theory, with all other things being equal, the likelihood of providing help should correspond to the degree with which individuals are related to each other and individuals are predicted to provide more help to their closely related kin than their distantly related kin (Hamilton 1964).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science
Editors	Todd Shackelford, V. A. Weekes‐Shackelford
Number of pages	2
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Publication date	1 Jan 2021
Pages	3671-3672
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-19649-7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-16999-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1545
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2021
MoE publication type	A3 Book chapter

Fields of Science

5141 Sociology
Altruism
Hamilton's rule
Inclusive fitness theory
Kin selection theory

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10.1007/978-3-319-19650-3_1545

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Helping More Likely With Close Kin Than More Distant Kin. / Hämäläinen, Hans-Mikael; Tanskanen, Antti Olavi ; Danielsbacka, Mirkka Johanna Emilia.
Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. ed. / Todd Shackelford; V. A. Weekes‐Shackelford. Cham: Springer International Publishing , 2021. p. 3671-3672.

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