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dc.contributor.authorMendes, Natacha
dc.contributor.authorSteinbeis, Nikolaus
dc.contributor.authorBueno-Guerra, Nereida
dc.contributor.authorCall, Josep
dc.contributor.authorSinger, Tania
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-18T23:32:12Z
dc.date.available2018-06-18T23:32:12Z
dc.date.issued2018-01
dc.identifier251516232
dc.identifier4e17be08-c227-4964-9d01-4afb0f686c3c
dc.identifier85042773976
dc.identifier000428754400017
dc.identifier.citationMendes , N , Steinbeis , N , Bueno-Guerra , N , Call , J & Singer , T 2018 , ' Preschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial others ' , Nature Human Behaviour , vol. 2 , no. 1 , pp. 45-51 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0264-5en
dc.identifier.issn2397-3374
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8597-8336/work/39933592
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/14220
dc.descriptionN.S. was supported by the European Research Council (European Research Council (ERC) grant agreement no. 715282, project DEVBRAINTRAIN), as well as a Jacobs Research Fellowship. J.C. was supported in part by the ERC (grant agreement no. 609819, project SOMICS). N.B.-G. was supported by an FPU scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education (ref. FPU12/00409).en
dc.description.abstractWhen misfortune befalls another, humans may feel distress, leading to a motivation to escape. When such misfortune is perceived as justified, however, it may be experienced as rewarding and lead to motivation to witness the misfortune. We explored when in human ontogeny such a motivation emerges and whether the motivation is shared by chimpanzees. Chimpanzees and four- to six-year-old children learned through direct interaction that an agent was either prosocial or antisocial and later saw each agent’s punishment. They were given the option to invest physical effort (chimpanzees) or monetary units (children) to continue watching. Chimpanzees and six-year-olds showed a preference for watching punishment of the antisocial agent. An additional control experiment in chimpanzees suggests that these results cannot be attributed to more generic factors such as scene coherence or informational value seeking. This indicates that both six-year-olds and chimpanzees have a motivation to watch deserved punishment enacted.
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dc.format.extent1781595
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofNature Human Behaviouren
dc.subjectProsocialen
dc.subjectAntisocialen
dc.subjectMotivation to watch deserved punishmenten
dc.subjectChimpanzeesen
dc.subjectChildrenen
dc.subjectH Social Sciencesen
dc.subjectRC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatryen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccHen
dc.subject.lccRC0321en
dc.titlePreschool children and chimpanzees incur costs to watch punishment of antisocial othersen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEuropean Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41562-017-0264-5
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-06-18
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0264-5#Sec17en
dc.identifier.grantnumber609819en


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