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The human response to unfairness evolved in order to support long-term cooperation, according to a research team from Georgia State University and Emory University. This is more of Frans de Waals work and it continues to fascinate me. Giving up an outcome that benefits you in order to gain long-term benefits from the relationship requires not only an ability to think about the future, but also the self-control to turn down a reward, Brosnan said. These both require a lot of cognitive control. Therefore, we hypothesize that lots of species respond negatively to getting less than a partner, which is the first step in the evolution of fairness, but only a few species are able to make the leap to this second step, which leads to a true sense of fairness. Read more at: phys.org/news/2014-09-human-fairness-evolved-favor-long-term.html
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:07:03 +0000

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