Face-to-Face Sharing with Strangers and Altruistic Punishment of Acquaintances for Strangers: Young Adolescents Exhibit Greater Altruism than Adults

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Summary

Great altruism in young adolescents compared to adults with mature cognitive abilities provides evidence of domain-specificity of altruistic competence, and sharing and altruistic punishment are related to specific cognitive and emotional mechanisms, respectively.

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Published
2016-10-03
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Keywords

Psychology, Altruism (biology), Social psychology, Cognition, Developmental psychology

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