Does sympathy motivate prosocial behaviour in great apes?

Prosocial behaviours such as helping, comforting, or sharing are central to human social life. Because they emerge early in ontogeny, it has been proposed that humans are prosocial by nature and that from early on empathy and sympathy motivate such behaviours. The emerging question is whether humans...

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Main Authors: Katja Liebal, Amrisha Vaish, Daniel Haun, Michael Tomasello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3885567?pdf=render