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#439 - Glenn Geher - Positive Evolutionary Psychology
Modern Wisdom
Is It Reciprocal Altruism?
The idea of reciprocal altruism came from trivers huse, huge renouna fiure in the field. And essentiallye said that we evolved a lot of adaptations around the fact that humans engage in reciprocal altruism. That's a very basic feature of who we are and what we do. So i help you, you help me. But once we're dealing with strangers, everything gets a lot of our evolved psychology wasn't designed for that. It can really be understood by this idea that so many of the modern situations we might run into are outside the bounds of what our minds would have evolved to experience. I had never thought about it quite that way, but i think that certainly
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