ArticleScientific reports2020
What matters for cooperation? The importance of social relationship over cognition.
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- Pet dogs prefer to work alone than to engage in a challenging cooperative task with conspecifics.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Impact of Aggression on Bystanders: Quadratic Post-Conflict Affiliation in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Pigs solve a cooperative task without showing a clear understanding of the need for a partner.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Social play in African savannah elephants may inform selection against aggression.Current zoology · 2024Article
- Selective social tolerance drives differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees.Animal behaviour · 2024Article
- Dogs take into account the actions of a human partner in a cooperative task.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Miconazole Promotes Cooperative Ability of a Mouse Model of Alzheimer Disease.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Association Between Online Self-Directed Learning Ability and Negative Emotions Among College Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study in Anhui Province, East China.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Human Expressions of Object Preference Affect Dogs' Perceptual Focus, but Not Their Action Choices.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Cooperation is vital for the survival of many species and has been extensively researched at the ultimate level however, there is a considerable degree of variation within a given species in the extent of cooperative behaviours exhibited. Possible factors that have been discussed to contribute to this variation are the social relationship between the cooperating individuals, but also non-social factors such as inhibitory control. Investigating the performance of wolves, a highly cooperative species, in three experimental cooperative tasks; a coordination (string-pulling) task, a prosocial task and an inequity aversion task, we found that the social relationship between the partners had the largest effects on all tasks, while non-social factors (inhibition, learning speed, causal understanding and persistence) had rather unpredicted, or no effects. The results support the potential importance of relational factors, rather than motivation and cognitive abilities, in driving cooperative interactions.
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