Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2014 Dec;18(12):615-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.08.002. Epub 2014 Sep 5.
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.
社交和合作是人类文化的优势,但也可能带来意想不到的代价。我们认为,人类体验疼痛和表达痛苦的方式可能源自许多在我们的近亲灵长类动物身上不会被体验为疼痛的原因,因为那些有动力寻求帮助的人类祖先比那些厚脸皮或坚忍的祖先更容易生存下来。