ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Fecundity or Vulnerability?: Mixed Evidence That Fecundity Predicts Forced-Choice Helping Judgments of Kin with Equal Genetic Relatedness
- Annie Docter
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Madison Malcore
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Cameron Blankenship
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - A'Lea Yonker
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Morganne Sendek
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Brennan Kiley
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Alexander Schutte
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Kathryn Dykstra
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - David Lishner
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
Abstract
Two replication experiments examined forced-choice helping judgments of targets with equal genetic relatedness to the perceiver. More participants chose to help a higher fecundity target (18-year old half-sister) than a lower fecundity target (65-year old grandmother), but the opposite occurred when the lower fecundity target was a 3-year old half-sister.
Decision Making
