title: [Prosocial personality. Why is cooperation and moral adjustment the rule?].
abstract: Human beings are adapted for acting and thinking cooperatively in cultural groups and the most impressive cognitive achievements of humans are the products not of individuals acting alone but of individuals interacting. As they grow, human children are equipped to participate in this cooperative group thinking through a special kind of cultural intelligence, comprising species-unique social-cognitive skills and motivations for collaboration, communication, social learning and other forms of shared intentionality. Some mechanism of social learning and norm orientation are reported, leading to some presumptions about the roots of antisocial behavior.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Forensische Psychiatrie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Oranienburger Straße 285 (Haus 10), Berlin, Germany. Hans-Ludwig.Kroeber@charite.de
authors.forename: H-L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Kroeber
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D035863:Moral Development; D010553:Personality Development