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dc.contributor.authorSchweinfurth, Manon K.
dc.contributor.editorKaufman, Allison B.
dc.contributor.editorCall, Josep
dc.contributor.editorKaufman, James C.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-06T00:35:11Z
dc.date.available2022-01-06T00:35:11Z
dc.date.issued2021-07-06
dc.identifier274586852
dc.identifier7d77d1e9-3af6-4d8e-830d-a0856ce6988a
dc.identifier.citationSchweinfurth , M K 2021 , Reciprocal cooperation - Norway rats ( Rattus norvegicus ) as an example . in A B Kaufman , J Call & J C Kaufman (eds) , The Cambridge handbook of animal cognition . Cambridge handbooks in psychology , Cambridge University Press , Cambridge , pp. 343-361 . https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564113.019en
dc.identifier.isbn9781108426749
dc.identifier.isbn9781108445481
dc.identifier.isbn9781108564113
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2066-7892/work/96817674
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/24602
dc.descriptionFunding: The Swiss National Science Foundation provided funding (P2BEP3_175269).en
dc.description.abstractMany animals cooperate even with unrelated individuals in various contexts, like providing food or allogrooming others. One possibility to explain the evolution of such apparently altruistic behaviour is reciprocity. In reciprocal cooperative interactions, individuals help those partners that have been previously cooperative and therefore exchange favours. This conditional help follows rules like “I help you because you helped me.” These rules are often assumed to be so cognitively demanding that they may be limited to humans. In this chapter, I will shed light on the cognitive underpinnings of reciprocal cooperation by reviewing work on one of the yet best-studied animal in this research area, the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus). Various studies have demonstrated that Norway rats reciprocally exchange different goods and services. They most likely form attitudes toward social partners that are based on the cooperation level of the last encounter, which they remember over long time spans. Cooperation decisions based on attitudes appear cognitively less complex than calculations of received and given favors. Thus, reciprocal cooperation based on this cognitive mechanism might be in fact more widespread among nonhuman animals than commonly believed.
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dc.format.extent1371861
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.ispartofThe Cambridge handbook of animal cognitionen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCambridge handbooks in psychologyen
dc.subjectNorway ratsen
dc.subjectCooperationen
dc.subjectReciprocityen
dc.subjectExchangeen
dc.subjectHelpen
dc.subjectQL Zoologyen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccQLen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleReciprocal cooperation - Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) as an exampleen
dc.typeBook itemen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/9781108564113.019
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2022-01-06
dc.identifier.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564113en
dc.identifier.urlhttps://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9781108426749&rn=1en


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