Moralność wśród ssaków naczelnych w świetle badań behawioralnych
Morality among primates in view of the behavioural research
Author(s): Karolina Durka, Maciej Trojan, Julia Sikorska, Justyna SzymańskaSubject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: behavioural research; evolutionary psychologists; empathy; prosocial behaviour; sense of fairness
Summary/Abstract: Behavioural primatologists and evolutionary psychologists consider morality in three aspects: the tendency to prosocial behaviour, sense of fairness and empathy. This article provides an overview of studies and reports, summarizing the current state of knowledge about the morality in primates - in all aforementioned aspects. A lot of empirical research has been conducted so far, but few of them provide hard evidence for the existence of morality among primates. Moreover, inconsistent results in a single approach of the different research teams induce to reflect on this situation.
Journal: Psychologia-Etologia-Genetyka
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 30
- Page Range: 75-91
- Page Count: 17