ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science2019
Self-control in crows, parrots and nonhuman primates.
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- Inhibitory control tests in non-human animals: validity, reliability, and perspectives.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Assessing the limits of delay of gratification in bumble bees.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Measuring self-control in a wild songbird using a spatial discounting task.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Dynamic inconsistency in great apes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Inhibitory control in teleost fish: a methodological and conceptual review.Animal cognition · 2024Review
- Repeatability and heritability of inhibitory control performance in wild toutouwai (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- On the role of training in delay of gratification paradigms: a reply to Pepperberg 2022.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Recent developments in parrot cognition: a quadrennial update.Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Waiting for a better possibility: delay of gratification in corvids and its relationship to other cognitive capacities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Comments on "Intra- and interspecific variation in self-control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification task".Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Developmental trajectories of delay discounting from childhood to young adulthood: longitudinal associations and test-retest reliability.Cognitive psychology · 2022Article
- Mirror-mediated string-pulling task in Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius).Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Intra- and interspecific variation in self-control capacities of parrots in a delay of gratification task.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Horses wait for more and better rewards in a delay of gratification paradigm.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Validation of a battery of inhibitory control tasks reveals a multifaceted structure in non-human primates.PeerJ · 2022Article
- The psychological foundations of reputation-based cooperation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Nature calls: intelligence and natural foraging style predict poor welfare in captive parrots.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Self-control is critical for both humans and nonhuman animals because it underlies complex cognitive abilities, such as decision-making and future planning, enabling goal-directed behavior. For instance, it is positively associated with social competence and life success measures in humans. We present the first review of delay of gratification as a measure of self-control in nonhuman primates, corvids (crow family) and psittacines (parrot order): disparate groups that show comparable advanced cognitive abilities and similar socio-ecological factors. We compare delay of gratification performance and identify key issues and outstanding areas for future research, including finding the best measures and drivers of delayed gratification. Our review therefore contributes to our understanding of both delayed gratification as a measure of self-control and of complex cognition in animals. This article is categorized under: Cognitive Biology > Evolutionary Roots of Cognition Psychology > Comparative Psychology.
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