Adopted utility calculus: Origins of a concept of social affiliation

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<p>To successfully navigate their social world, humans need to understand and map enduring relationships between people: we need a concept of social affiliation. Here I propose that our initial concept of social affiliation, available to human infants, is based on the extent to which one individual consistently takes on the goals and needs of another. This proposal grounds affiliation in intuitive psychology, as f...

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• Biological Evolution
• Cooperative Behavior
• Decision Making
• Game Theory
• Interpersonal Relations
• Models, Statistical
• Phenotype
• Time Factors

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Literature Corpus work

98dc6ace-6c1c-5169-8a25-2c6614f1d71d

DOI

10.31234/osf.io/kuwgf