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How changing emotional bonds affect dispersal
A) Social relationships prior to widespread emotional commitments and emotional complexity
Weak alliances are often and easily broken. Few if any alliances between groups and very limited mobility.
B) Social relationships based on widespread emotional commitments and emotional complexity
Strong alliances are rarely broken, but result in strong motivations to repel those who have ‘betrayed’ commitments when they are. Alliances between groups, and much mobility. Motivations to repel (or create distance from previous allies) can prompt the creation of new colonies.
