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  1. State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Hysla Magalhães de Moura & Deise Maria Leal Fernandes Mendes

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de Moura, H.M., Mendes, D.M.L.F. (2020). Observation of Altruism. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3476-1

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