%0 Journal Article
%T Descent Systems, Paternity Uncertainty and Cousin-directed Altruism
%A Jeon
%A Joonghwan
%A Ji-Young Yoon
%A Jae Chun Choe
%J Journal of Ecology and Field Biology
%D 2008
%I 
%X Jeon and Buss (2007) found that human altruistic tendencies towards different categories ofcousins are adaptively regulated as a consequence of paternity uncertainty. Since the study sample was drawnfrom a large US city where the effects of patrilineality may be week, the question of whether descent systemsalso independently affect cousin-directed altruism remained unanswered. We replicated the cousin-directedaltruism study in a population of urban Korean college students, who have lived in a highly patrilineal society.As predicted, mother¡¯s sister¡¯s children were favored the most, followed by both mother¡¯s brother¡¯s and father¡¯ssister¡¯s children. Contrary to our predictions, however, father¡¯s brother¡¯s children was more, not less, favored thaneither mother¡¯s brother¡¯s or father¡¯s sister¡¯s children. We discuss why this cross-cultural difference may beobserved with regard to the highly patrilineal culture in Korea.
%K Altruism
%K Cousin
%K Paternity uncertainty
%K Patrilineality
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