ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Chimpanzees return favors at a personal cost.
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- Empirical challenges from the comparative and developmental literature to the Shared Intentionality Theory - a review of alternative data on recursive mind reading, prosociality, imitation and cumulative culture.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Anthropological Prosociality via Sub-Group Level Selection.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2022Article
- The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation: a comparative perspective.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Review
- Carrion Crows and Azure-Winged Magpies Show No Prosocial Tendencies When Tested in a Token Transfer Paradigm.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- What behaviour in economic games tells us about the evolution of non-human species' economic decision-making behaviour.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Chimpanzees behave prosocially in a group-specific manner.Science advances · 2021Article
- Economic trust in young children.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Helping-Like Behaviour in Mice Towards Conspecifics Constrained Inside Tubes.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- How chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) share the spoils with collaborators and bystanders.PloS one · 2019Article
- Understanding social decision-making from another species' perspective.Learning & behavior · 2018Article
- Correspondence: Chimpanzee helping is real, not a byproduct.Nature communications · 2018Article
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Abstract
Humans regularly provide others with resources at a personal cost to themselves. Chimpanzees engage in some cooperative behaviors in the wild as well, but their motivational underpinnings are unclear. In three experiments, chimpanzees (
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