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In search of animal normativity : a framework for studying social norms in non-human animals
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dc.contributor.author | Westra, Evan | |
dc.contributor.author | Fitzpatrick, Simon | |
dc.contributor.author | Brosnan, Sarah F. | |
dc.contributor.author | Gruber, Thibaud | |
dc.contributor.author | Hobaiter, Catherine | |
dc.contributor.author | Hopper, Lydia M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kelly, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Krupenye, Christopher | |
dc.contributor.author | Luncz, Lydia V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Theriault, Jordan | |
dc.contributor.author | Andrews, Kristin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-29T09:30:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-29T09:30:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-01-24 | |
dc.identifier | 298572636 | |
dc.identifier | 72793b0b-ec68-4378-976f-84dabab74089 | |
dc.identifier | 85183095105 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Westra , E , Fitzpatrick , S , Brosnan , S F , Gruber , T , Hobaiter , C , Hopper , L M , Kelly , D , Krupenye , C , Luncz , L V , Theriault , J & Andrews , K 2024 , ' In search of animal normativity : a framework for studying social norms in non-human animals ' , Biological Reviews , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13056 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1464-7931 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:24604A1B1FFA36372577EAE75ACD6FE8 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-3893-0524/work/152318079 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/29089 | |
dc.description | Funding: K. A. and E. W. were supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation through the Diverse Intelligence initiative. K. A. was supported by SSHRC 435-2022-0749. S. F. B. was supported by NSF 2127375, NSF SES 1919305, and TWCF0471. T. G. was supported by Swiss National Science Foundation PCEFP1_186832. C. H. was supported by European Union's 8th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020 802719. L. M. H. was supported by NIH U42 OD013117-15A. C. K. was supported by TWCF-20647 and the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars program. L. V. L. was supported by the Max Planck Society. J. T. was supported by NIH R21 MH129902 and NIH R01 AG071173. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Social norms – rules governing which behaviours are deemed appropriate or inappropriate within a given community – are typically taken to be uniquely human. Recently, this position has been challenged by a number of philosophers, cognitive scientists, and ethologists, who have suggested that social norms may also be found in certain non-human animal communities. Such claims have elicited considerable scepticism from norm cognition researchers, who doubt that any non-human animals possess the psychological capacities necessary for normative cognition. However, there is little agreement among these researchers about what these psychological prerequisites are. This makes empirical study of animal social norms difficult, since it is not clear what we are looking for and thus what should count as behavioural evidence for the presence (or absence) of social norms in animals. To break this impasse, we offer an approach that moves beyond contested psychological criteria for social norms. This approach is inspired by the animal culture research program, which has made a similar shift away from heavily psychological definitions of ‘culture’ to become organised around a cluster of more empirically tractable concepts of culture. Here, we propose an analogous set of constructs built around the core notion of a normative regularity, which we define as a socially maintained pattern of behavioural conformity within a community. We suggest methods for studying potential normative regularities in wild and captive primates. We also discuss the broader scientific and philosophical implications of this research program with respect to questions of human uniqueness, animal welfare and conservation. | |
dc.format.extent | 17 | |
dc.format.extent | 325771 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Biological Reviews | en |
dc.subject | Animal normativity | en |
dc.subject | Norm psychology | en |
dc.subject | Social norms | en |
dc.subject | Animal culture | en |
dc.subject | BF Psychology | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BF | en |
dc.title | In search of animal normativity : a framework for studying social norms in non-human animals | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | European Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscience | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13056 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 802719 | en |
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