Are there Nonverbal Cues to Commitment? An Exploratory Study Using the Zero-Acquaintance Video Presentation Paradigm

Altruism is difficult to explain evolutionarily if subtle cheaters exist in a population ( Trivers, 1971 ). A pathway to the evolutionary maintenance of cooperation is nonverbal altruist-detection. One adaptive advantage of nonverbal altruist-detection is the formation of trustworthy division of lab...

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Main Authors: William Michael Brown, Boris Palameta, Chris Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2003-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470490300100104