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Cooperative care as origins of the “happy ape”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2023

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Fan Yang*
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Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA fan.yang@uchicago.edu https://voices.uchicago.edu/potentialslab/
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Abstract

Grossmann proposes an interesting framework to explain how heightened fearfulness among humans could be evolutionarily adaptive in the context of cooperative care. I would like to propose that cooperative care may also be a potential mechanism promoting enhanced happiness expression among humans, shedding light on questions about the scope and boundary of the fearful ape hypothesis.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e80
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