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alliance hypothesis of friendship: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary psychology

the proposal that friendship evolved to secure allies for conflicts, so people rank friends by how highly the friend ranks them.

In evolutionary psychology, alliance hypothesis of friendship refers to the proposal that friendship evolved to secure allies for conflicts, so people rank friends by how highly the friend ranks them. This meaning comes from DeScioli (2009) in PLoS ONE.[1]

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References

DeScioli, P., & Kurzban, R. (2009). The Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship. PLoS ONE, 4(6), e5802. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005802

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