WHY TALK? SPEAKING AS SELFISH BEHAVIOUR

By T. Scott-Phillips. 2006

9 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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In Cognitive Science & Psychology

1. Iason Gabriel
2. Tom Everitt
3. Nathan Oesch

In Linguistics

1. Nathan Oesch

Citations in the corpus

• Alignment of Language Agents (2021, background): “It has been suggested that communication systems in animals, including language in humans, evolved primarily for the function of deception (Dawkins and Krebs, 1978; Krebs, 1984; Scott-Phillips, 2006).”
• Deception as a Derived Function of Language (2016, background): “…ubiquity of deception found throughout the animal kingdom, some have argued that most animal communication systems have evolved primarily (as opposed to secondarily as a derived function) for the function of deception (Dawkins and Krebs, 1978; Krebs and Dawkins, 1984; Scott-Phillips, 2006).”