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Giving is self-rewarding for monkeysFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:13685-9. 2008..If the view between both monkeys was blocked, choices became strikingly selfish. Thus, under certain conditions, delivering benefits to others seems gratifying to nonhuman primates...
Controlled studies of chimpanzee cultural transmissionVictoria Horner
Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Prog Brain Res 178:3-15. 2009....- The antiquity of empathyFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Science 336:874-6. 2012..As indicated by both observational and experimental studies on our closest relatives, empathy may be the main motivator of prosocial behavior... - Research chimpanzees may get a breakFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
PLoS Biol 10:e1001291. 2012..It is high time to think about their retirement, Frans de Waal argues, without neglecting prospects for non-invasive research on behavior, cognition, and genetics... - Peace lessons from an unlikely sourceFrans B M de Waal
Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
PLoS Biol 2:E101. 2004 
Frans B.M. de WaalF B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Curr Biol 16:R903-4. 2006- Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathyFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 59:279-300. 2008..Empathy-induced altruism derives its strength from the emotional stake it offers the self in the other's welfare. The dynamics of the empathy mechanism agree with predictions from kin selection and reciprocal altruism theory... - Propagation of handclasp grooming among captive chimpanzeesF B de Waal
Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Am J Primatol 43:339-46. 1997..Over the years the posture increased in frequency and duration and spread to the majority of adults and also to a few adolescents and older juveniles. The pattern persisted after removal of the apparent originator... - The monkey in the mirror: hardly a strangerFrans B M de Waal
Living Links Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:11140-7. 2005..Possibly, they reach a level of self-other distinction intermediate between seeing their mirror image as other and recognizing it as self... - A century of getting to know the chimpanzeeFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 954 North Gatewood Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Nature 437:56-9. 2005..The sequencing of the chimpanzee genome will no doubt bring more surprises and insights. Humans do occupy a special place among the primates, but this place increasingly has to be defined against a backdrop of substantial similarity... - The thief in the mirrorFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS Biol 6:e201. 2008 - Prosocial primates: selfish and unselfish motivationsFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 365:2711-22. 2010..This paper further reviews observational and experimental evidence for the reciprocity mechanisms that underlie cooperation among non-relatives, for inequity aversion as a constraint on cooperation and on the way defection is dealt with... - What is an animal emotion?Frans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Psychology Department, Emory University, 954 N Gatewood Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1224:191-206. 2011..Understanding the emotionally deep structure of behavior will be the next frontier in the study of animal behavior... - Capuchin cognitive ecology: cooperation based on projected returnsFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University, 954 N Gatewood Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:221-8. 2003..Decisions about cooperation thus take into account both the opportunity for and the likelihood of subsequent competition over the spoils... - Primates--a natural heritage of conflict resolutionF B de Waal
Living Links, Center for the Advanced Study of Human and Ape Evolution, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, and Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Science 289:586-90. 2000..It is only when social relationships are valued that one can expect the full complement of natural checks and balances... - Food transfers through mesh in brown capuchinsF B de Waal
Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA
J Comp Psychol 111:370-8. 1997..The study suggests that sharing mechanisms may be different for adult male capuchins, with males sharing food more readily and less discriminatingly than females... - Towards a bottom-up perspective on animal and human cognitionFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Psychology Department, Emory University, 954 North Gatewood Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 14:201-7. 2010..We argue that this bottom-up perspective, which focuses on the constituent capacities underlying larger cognitive phenomena, is more in line with both neuroscience and evolutionary biology... - Silent invasion: Imanishi's primatology and cultural bias in scienceFrans B M de Waal
Living Links, Yerkes Primate Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Anim Cogn 6:293-9. 2003 - Darwin's legacy and the study of primate visual communicationFrans B M de Waal
Yerkes Primate Center, and Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1000:7-31. 2003..There is also increasing evidence for signal conventionalization in primates, especially the apes, in both captivity and the field. This process results in group-specific or "cultural" communication patterns... - Partner effects on food consumption in brown capuchin monkeysMarietta Dindo
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Primatol 69:448-56. 2007..Possibly, (in)equity plays a different role if food serves as a reward for a task rather than if it is simply made available for consumption... - How animals do businessFrans B M de Waal
Emory University, USA
Sci Am 292:54-61. 2005 - Copying without rewards: socially influenced foraging decisions among brown capuchin monkeysKristin E Bonnie
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
Anim Cogn 10:283-92. 2007.... - Spread of arbitrary conventions among chimpanzees: a controlled experimentKristin E Bonnie
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Proc Biol Sci 274:367-72. 2007..Since the action-sequences lacked meaning before the experiment and had no logical connection with reward, chimpanzees must have extracted both the form and benefits of these sequences through observation of others... - Face recognition in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)Jennifer J Pokorny
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Reserach Center, Emory University, 954 N Gatewood Road, Atlanta, GA 30329
J Comp Psychol 123:151-60. 2009..Capuchins can be added to a growing list of primates that appear to recognize two-dimensional facial images of conspecifics... - Inequity responses of monkeys modified by effortMegan van Wolkenten
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:18854-9. 2007..These effects are as expected if the inequity response evolved in the context of cooperative survival strategies... - Self-recognition in the Asian elephant and future directions for cognitive research with elephants in zoological settingsJoshua M Plotnik
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Zoo Biol 29:179-91. 2010..maximus... - Third-party postconflict affiliation of aggressors in chimpanzeesTeresa Romero
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Am J Primatol 73:397-404. 2011..Both study groups showed behavioral specificity for appeasement, i.e. context-specific use of certain behaviors, supporting the view that chimpanzees exhibit highly visible explicit postconflict affiliation... - Computer animations stimulate contagious yawning in chimpanzeesMatthew W Campbell
Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 2409 Taylor Lane, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, USA
Proc Biol Sci 276:4255-9. 2009..Understanding how chimpanzees connect with animations, to both empathize and imitate, may help us to understand how humans do the same... - Monkeys recognize the faces of group mates in photographsJennifer J Pokorny
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:21539-43. 2009..This ability was unexplained by potential color cues because the same results were obtained with grayscale images. These tests demonstrate that capuchin monkeys, like humans, recognize whom they see in a picture... - Monkeys reject unequal paySarah F Brosnan
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA
Nature 425:297-9. 2003..These reactions support an early evolutionary origin of inequity aversion... - Prestige affects cultural learning in chimpanzeesVictoria Horner
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e10625. 2010..If similar biases operate in wild animal populations, the adoption of culturally transmitted innovations may be significantly shaped by the characteristics of performers... - Consolation as possible expression of sympathetic concern among chimpanzeesTeresa Romero
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:12110-5. 2010..That consolation is an integrated part of close mutual relationships is supported by the tendency for it being reciprocated... - Methodological problems in the study of contagious yawningMatthew W Campbell
Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga 30072, USA
Front Neurol Neurosci 28:120-7. 2010..With its link to empathy, a more standardized study of contagious yawning may be a useful tool for a variety of disciplines... - Responses to a simple barter task in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytesSarah F Brosnan
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Primates 46:173-82. 2005.... - Socially learned preferences for differentially rewarded tokens in the brown capuchin monkey (Cebus apella)Sarah F Brosnan
Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
J Comp Psychol 118:133-9. 2004..They also fail to learn that the value of familiar tokens has changed. Information about token value is available in all situations, but capuchins seem to pay more attention in a social situation involving novel tokens... - A concept of value during experimental exchange in brown capuchin monkeys, Cebus apellaSarah F Brosnan
Living Links Center, Emory University, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, 954 N Gatewood Drive, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Folia Primatol (Basel) 75:317-30. 2004..This sex difference parallels previous findings of greater reciprocity in female brown capuchins than in males... - Tolerance for inequity may increase with social closeness in chimpanzeesSarah F Brosnan
Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 954 North Gatewood Drive, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:253-8. 2005.... - Partner's behavior, not reward distribution, determines success in an unequal cooperative task in capuchin monkeysSarah F Brosnan
Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Primatol 68:713-24. 2006..This ability to equitably distribute rewards in inherently biased cooperative situations has profound implications for activities such as group hunts, in which multiple individuals work together for a single, monopolizable reward... - Partial support from a non-replication: comment on Roma, Silberberg, Ruggiero, and Suomi (2006)Sarah F Brosnan
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
J Comp Psychol 120:74-5. 2006..The authors conclude that Roma et al.'s study is not a replication and does not disprove the authors' findings... - Affiliation promotes the transmission of a social custom: handclasp grooming among captive chimpanzeesKristin E Bonnie
Department of Psychology, Emory University, and Living Links Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, GA 30329, USA
Primates 47:27-34. 2006..We concluded that affiliation and individual experience determines the transmission of handclasp grooming among captive chimpanzees... - The mother-offspring relationship as a template in social development: reconciliation in captive brown capuchins (Cebus apella)Ann Weaver
Living Links, Yerkes Primate Center and Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
J Comp Psychol 117:101-10. 2003.... - Self-recognition in an Asian elephantJoshua M Plotnik
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Department of Psychology, Emory University, 532 North Kligo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:17053-7. 2006..These parallels suggest convergent cognitive evolution most likely related to complex sociality and cooperation... - An index of relationship quality based on attachment theoryAnn Weaver
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, USA
J Comp Psychol 116:93-106. 2002..A comparison revealed extensive behavioral differences between secure and insecure MO relationships and suggested MORQ provided an objective, continuous measure of attachment security... - Ape gestures and language evolutionAmy S Pollick
Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, 954 North Gatewood Road, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:8184-9. 2007..e., combinations of gestures and facial/vocal signals) added to behavioral impact on the recipient... - Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzeesAndrew Whiten
Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9JP, UK
Nature 437:737-40. 2005..A subset of chimpanzees that discovered the alternative method nevertheless went on to match the predominant approach of their companions, showing a conformity bias that is regarded as a hallmark of human culture... - Comparing social skills of children and apesFrans B M de Waal
Science 319:569; author reply 569. 2008 - Transmission of multiple traditions within and between chimpanzee groupsAndrew Whiten
Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution and Scottish Primate Research Group, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9JP, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 17:1038-43. 2007..The convergence of these results with those from the wild implies a richness in chimpanzees' capacity for culture, a richness that parsimony suggests was shared with our common ancestor... - Visual field information in the face perception of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)Joshua Plotnik
Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1000:94-8. 2003..Results suggest that chimpanzees, unlike humans, do not exhibit a left visual field advantage. These results have important implications for studies on laterality and asymmetry in facial signals and their perception in primates... - Robustness mechanisms in primate societies: a perturbation studyJessica C Flack
Santa Fe Institute, NM 87501, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:1091-9. 2005.... - Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate basesStephanie D Preston
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, 2RCP Neurology Clinic, Iowa City, IA 52242
Behav Brain Sci 25:1-20; discussion 20-71. 2002..This view can advance our evolutionary understanding of empathy beyond inclusive fitness and reciprocal altruism and can explain different levels of empathy across individuals, species, stages of development, and situations... - Animal communication: panel discussionFrans B M de Waal
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1000:79-87. 2003 - Play signaling and the perception of social rules by juvenile chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)Jessica C Flack
Santa Fe Institute, NM 97501, USA
J Comp Psychol 118:149-59. 2004..These results suggest that juvenile chimpanzees increase play signaling to prevent termination of the play bouts by mothers of younger partners... - Visual kin recognition and family resemblance in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)John R Vokey
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
J Comp Psychol 118:194-9. 2004..Eliminating potential framing biases, either by cropping the photos tightly to the faces or by rebalancing the recognition foils, eliminated the asymmetry but not human participants' ability to recognize chimpanzee kin... - Faithful replication of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and childrenVictoria Horner
Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:13878-83. 2006..Our results show that chimpanzees have a capacity to sustain local traditions across multiple simulated generations... - Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated speciesJessica C Flack
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA
Am Nat 165:E126-39. 2005..Our data and simple model suggest that third-party policing effectiveness and cost are dependent on power structure and might emerge only in societies with high variance in power... - Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primatesJessica C Flack
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA
Nature 439:426-9. 2006..The structure of such networks plays a critical role in infant survivorship, emergence and spread of cooperative behaviour, social learning and cultural traditions...