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social science subjects > psychology > evolutionary psychology > cheater-detection mechanisms

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cheater-detection mechanisms  

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  • Definition The human brain can be thought of as a computer—an organic one, designed by natural selection to process information in adaptive ways. It is composed of many programs, each of which evolved because it was good at solving a problem of survival or reproduction faced by hunter-gatherer ancestors in the past. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Cheater-Detection Mechanism]

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