dc.contributor.author
Kopp, Kathrin S.
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Kanngiesser, Patricia
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Brügger, Rahel K.
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Daum, Moritz M.
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Gampe, Anja
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Köster, Moritz
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van Schaik, Carel P.
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Liebal, Katja
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Burkart, Judith M.
dc.date.accessioned
2024-05-21T12:23:12Z
dc.date.available
2024-05-21T12:23:12Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/43642
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-43357
dc.description.abstract
Humans and many other animal species act in ways that benefit others. Such prosocial behaviour has been studied extensively across a range of disciplines over the last decades, but findings to date have led to conflicting conclusions about prosociality across and even within species. Here, we present a conceptual framework to study the proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour in humans, non-human primates and potentially other animals. We build on psychological definitions of prosociality and spell out three key features that need to be in place for behaviour to count as prosocial: benefitting others, intentionality, and voluntariness. We then apply this framework to review observational and experimental studies on sharing behaviour and targeted helping in human children and non-human primates. We show that behaviours that are usually subsumed under the same terminology (e.g. helping) can differ substantially across and within species and that some of them do not fulfil our criteria for prosociality. Our framework allows for precise mapping of prosocial behaviours when retrospectively evaluating studies and offers guidelines for future comparative work.
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dc.format.extent
15 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Prosocial behaviour
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dc.subject
Comparative research
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Human children
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dc.subject.ddc
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
dc.title
The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
5
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1007/s10071-024-01846-w
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Animal Cognition
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
27
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-01846-w
refubium.affiliation
Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
refubium.affiliation.other
Arbeitsbereich Cross-Cultural Developmental Psychology
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1435-9456
refubium.resourceType.provider
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