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Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: cognitive and motivational determinants

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Date
11/2017
Author
Voelter, Christoph Johannes
Rossano, F.
Call, Josep
Keywords
Primate cognition
Manipulation
Problem solving
Coercion
Social tool use
Communication
Motivation
Exploitation
Cooperation
Helping
Prosociality
Inequity aversion
Reciprocity
BF Psychology
QL Zoology
RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
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Abstract
Social interactions are the result of individuals’ cooperative and competitive tendencies expressed over an extended period of time. Although social manipulation, i.e., using another individual to achieve one’s own goals, is a crucial aspect of social interactions, there has been no comprehensive attempt to differentiate its various types and to map its cognitive and motivational determinants. For this purpose, we survey in this article the experimental literature on social interactions in nonhuman primates. We take social manipulation, illustrated by a case study with orangutans (Pongo abelii), as our starting point and move in two directions. First, we will focus on a flexibility / sociality axis that includes technical problem solving, social tool-use and communication. Second, we will focus on a motivational/prosociality axis that includes exploitation, cooperation, and helping. Combined, the two axes offer a way to capture a broad range of social interactions performed by human and nonhuman primates.
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Voelter , C J , Rossano , F & Call , J 2017 , ' Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: cognitive and motivational determinants ' , Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , vol. 82 , pp. 76-94 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.09.008
Publication
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.09.008
ISSN
0149-7634
Type
Journal item
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© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.09.008
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11667

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