Social, Machiavellian and cultural cognition : a golden age of discovery in comparative and evolutionary psychology

Whiten, Andrew

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11/2018

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Abstract

The years since the publication of Machiavellian Intelligence have witnessed a Golden Age in discoveries concerning social cognition in human and non-human primates and many other animal taxa too. Here I briefly dissect some of the variants of the social intelligence hypotheses that have evolved in this time and offer a selective overview of scientific discoveries in this field, particularly in primates, over the last 30 years.

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Whiten , A 2018 , ' Social, Machiavellian and cultural cognition : a golden age of discovery in comparative and evolutionary psychology ' , Journal of Comparative Psychology , vol. 132 , no. 4 , pp. 437-441 . https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000135

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Journal of Comparative Psychology

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Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000135

ISSN

0735-7036

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Journal article

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Copyright © 2018 American Psychological Association. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work will be available at https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000135

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This article is for a special issue of J. Comp. Psychol. - Marking Machiavellian Intelligence: Contemporary Comparative Perspectives on Cognitive and Cultural Evolution (Edited by Lydia Hopper, Erica van de Waal and Christine Caldwell)

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University of St Andrews Research

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13429