Human sense of fairness evolved to favor long-term cooperation, primate study suggests

Friday, September 19, 2014 - 01:02 in Psychology & Sociology

The human response to unfairness evolved in order to support long-term cooperation, according to a new research. Fairness is a social ideal that cannot be measured, so to understand the evolution of fairness in humans scientists have studied the behavioral responses to equal versus unequal reward division in other primates.

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