ABSTRACT
This chapter explores he evolutionary foundations of Sociality. It considers the evidence that satisfying Sociality-related needs, more than the satisfaction of any other type of need leads to long-term well-being. The chapter introduces three separate types of Sociality-related Well-Being. The first and most common form of sociality is one where the benefits of cooperation immediately and directly accrue to the individual performing the cooperative act. A second form of sociality involves cooperative behaviors where an individual's helping of another alters the behavioral response of its partner. A common example of this might be cooperative feeding in birds. The third and final form of sociality involves more altruistic relationships, typically discussed in the literature as the preferential interactions between related individuals. Scholars and practitioners of the business world have for nearly a century recognized that cooperation is a key component of business success, in particular defining business organizations like corporations as systems of cooperative effort and coordinated activity.
