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The pain of altruism.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2014 Dec;18(12):615-7
Authors: Finlay BL, Syal S
Abstract
Sociality and cooperation are benefits to human cultures but may carry unexpected costs. We suggest that both the human experience of pain and the expression of distress may result from many causes not experienced as painful in our close primate relatives, because human ancestors motivated to ask for help survived in greater numbers than either the thick-skinned or the stoic.
PMID: 25200380 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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