Social Psychology (9th Edition)
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Prosocial behaviors involve the motivation to help others, even if it comes at a cost to the helper in question. However, according to the Darwinian theory of evolution, natural selection focuses on genes that foster one's survival, so as you can imagine, such prosocial behaviors have posed a problem for this theory. Nevertheless, evolutionary psychologists have attempted to find ways to resolve this dilemma.
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