ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022
Waiting for a better possibility: delay of gratification in corvids and its relationship to other cognitive capacities.
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- Assessing the limits of delay of gratification in bumble bees.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- To know or not to know? Curiosity and the value of prospective information in animals.Learning & behavior · 2025Review
- Measuring self-control in a wild songbird using a spatial discounting task.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Social influences on delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and Eurasian jays.PloS one · 2023Article
- 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
- Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Self-control, the ability to resist temptation and wait for better but delayed possibilities, is an important cognitive skill that underpins decision-making and planning. The capacity to exert self-control has been linked to intelligence in humans, chimpanzees and most recently cuttlefish. Here, we presented 10 Eurasian jays,
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