TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - The Strategic Role of the Emotions
JO  - Emotion review
A1  - Frank, Robert H.
SP  - 252
EP  - 254
VL  - 3
IS  - 3
N2  - Sympathy and other moral emotions described by David Hume (1740/1978) and Adam Smith (1759/1966) motivate people to incur a host of costs they could easily avoid. Such emotions pose a challenge to evolutionary biologists, who have long stressed the primacy of narrow self-interest in Darwinian selection. In earlier work, I argued (Frank, 1987, 1988) that natural selection might have favored moral sentiments because of their capacity to facilitate solutions to one-shot social dilemmas. Here, I present a capsule summary of the basic argument.<p /> 
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SN  - 1754-0739
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1754073911402375
ID  - ref1
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