The role of behavioural architecture in the evolution of human social heuristics KU Leuven
Humans often make seemingly suboptimal social decisions, such as incurring a cost to help strangers they will never see again. Standard economic and evolutionary theories have difficulty explaining this, because they typically assume that behavioural responses are specifically tailored to each situation that may arise. This ignores the fact that humans face many different social situations that they cannot perfectly assess, and that the ...