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ArticleScientific reports2020

Consistent differences in a virtual world model of ape societies.

Bart J Wilson, Sarah F Brosnan, Elizabeth V Lonsdorf, Crickette M Sanz

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Close encounters of the friendly kind: pacific between-group interactions in primates.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025
    Review
  2. Comparative economics: how studying other primates helps us better understand the evolution of our own economic decision making.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
    Review
  3. Warlike chimpanzees and peacemaking bonobos.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Bart J WilsonEconomic Science Institute & Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA. bartwilson@gmail.com.
Sarah F BrosnanDepartments of Psychology and Philosophy, Neuroscience Institute, Language Research Center and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Elizabeth V LonsdorfDepartment of Psychology, Biological Foundations of Behavior Program, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA.
Crickette M SanzDepartment of Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
Chapman University · USFranklin & Marshall College · USGeorgia State University · USWildlife Conservation Society Congo · CG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Practical and ethical constraints limit our ability to experimentally test socioecological theory in wild primates. We took an alternate approach to model this, allowing groups of humans to interact in a virtual world in which they had to find food and interact with both ingroup and outgroup avatars to earn rewards. We altered ratios and distributions of high- and low-value foods to test the hypothesis that hominoids vary with regards to social cohesion and intergroup tolerance due to their feeding ecology. We found larger nesting clusters and decreased attacks on outgroup competitors in the Bonobo condition versus the Chimpanzee condition, suggesting a significant effect of feeding competition alone on social structure. We also demonstrate that virtual worlds are a robust mechanism for testing hypotheses that are impossible to study in the wild.

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Feeding BehaviorPan paniscusPan troglodytesSocial BehaviorVirtual RealityAggressionAnimalsCompetitive BehaviorEnergy IntakeGames, ExperimentalHumans

Identifiers

PMID32826938
PMCPMC7442632
OpenAlexW3080083036

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