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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions.

Laura Simone Lewis, Oded Ritov, Esther Herrmann, Rachna B Reddy, Alejandro Sanchez-Amaro, Alison Gopnik, Jan Engelmann

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Laura Simone LewisDepartments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1693-5065
Oded RitovDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4211-3375
Esther HerrmannSchool of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6791-0805
Rachna B ReddyDepartment of Anthropology, The University of Utah, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3338-2052
Alejandro Sanchez-AmaroDepartment of Psychology, University of Stirling, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4036-2455
Alison GopnikDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7183-0867
Jan EngelmannDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0009-0007-2807-8626

Funding

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little is known about the developmental and evolutionary roots of social curiosity. Here, across three comparative studies, we investigate whether chimpanzees (

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Exploratory BehaviorPan troglodytesSocial BehaviorSocial InteractionAnimalsChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMalechimpanzeescognitive developmentcomparative psychologyprimatessocial curiosity

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PMID40461072
PMCPMC12133375

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