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List of works by Laurie R. Santos

'Core knowledges': a dissociation between spatiotemporal knowledge and contact-mechanics in a non-human primate?

scientific article published in April 2004

'Unwilling' versus 'unable': capuchin monkeys' (Cebus apella) understanding of human intentional action

scientific article published in November 2009

A decade of theory of mind research on Cayo Santiago: Insights into rhesus macaque social cognition

scientific article published on 29 December 2014

Advancing Gaze-Based Research on Primate Theory of Mind

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Another way to learn about teaching: What dogs can tell us about the evolution of pedagogy

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Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) fail to show inequality aversion in a no-cost situation

Capuchin monkeys are sensitive to others' welfare.

scientific article published in November 2008

Capuchin monkeys do not show human-like pricing effects

scientific article published on 2 December 2014

Capuchin monkeys punish those who have more

Capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, show no evidence for inequity aversion in a costly choice task

Capuchins (Cebus apella) are limited in their ability to infer others' goals based on context

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Capuchins (Cebus apella) fail to show an asymmetric dominance effect

scientific article published on 16 November 2016

Capuchins' (Cebus apella) sensitivity to others' goal-directed actions in a helping context

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Children's and adults' judgments of equitable resource distributions.

scientific article published in January 2010

Choice-induced preferences in the absence of choice: Evidence from a blind two choice paradigm with young children and capuchin monkeys

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Comparative cognition: united we stand

scientific article published on 5 December 2011

Comparative developmental psychology: how is human cognitive development unique?

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Core knowledge and its limits: the domain of food

scientific article published on 05 May 2009

Developmental shifts in social cognition: socio-emotional biases across the lifespan in rhesus monkeys

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Do Dogs Prefer Helpers in an Infant-Based Social Evaluation Task?

Do Non-Human Primates Really Represent Others' Beliefs?

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Do capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) diagnose causal relations in the absence of a direct reward?

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Do non-human primates really represent others' ignorance? A test of the awareness relations hypothesis

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Do young rhesus macaques know what others see?: A comparative developmental perspective

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Does altercentric interference rely on mentalizing?: Results from two level-1 perspective-taking tasks.

scientific article published on 22 March 2018

Dogs do not demonstrate a human-like bias to defer to communicative cues

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Dynamic object individuation in rhesus macaques: a study of the tunnel effect.

scientific article published in December 2004

Economic cognition in humans and animals: the search for core mechanisms

scientific article published on February 2009

Endowment effect in capuchin monkeys

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Enumeration of objects and substances in non-human primates: experiments with brown lemurs (Eulemur fulvus).

scientific article published in November 2009

Essentialism in the absence of language? Evidence from rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

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Evidence for kind representations in the absence of language: experiments with rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

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Expectations about numerical events in four lemur species (Eulemur fulvus, Eulemur mongoz, Lemur catta and Varecia rubra).

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Exploring the evolutionary origins of overimitation: a comparison across domesticated and non-domesticated canids

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Familiarity affects the assessment of female facial signals of fertility by free-ranging male rhesus macaques.

scientific article published on 6 April 2011

Give what you get: capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old children pay forward positive and negative outcomes to conspecifics

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Helping behaviour and regard for others in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

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How Basic Are Behavioral Biases? Evidence from Capuchin Monkey Trading Behavior

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How capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) quantify objects and substances

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How prosimian primates represent tools: experiments with two lemur species (Eulemur fulvus and Lemur catta).

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Insights into Intraspecies Variation in Primate Prosocial Behavior: Capuchins (Cebus apella) Fail to Show Prosociality on a Touchscreen Task

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Knowledge before Belief

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Lab support for strong reciprocity is weak: punishing for reputation rather than cooperation

scientific article published in February 2012

Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

TEDGlobal 2010

Learning about the Ellsberg Paradox reduces, but does not abolish, ambiguity aversion

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Means-means-end tool choice in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus): finding the limits on primates' knowledge of tools.

scientific article published on 25 January 2005

Metacognition in canids: A comparison of dogs (Canis familiaris) and dingoes (Canis dingo)

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Monkeys represent others' knowledge but not their beliefs

scientific article published on 30 August 2011

Neuroecology and psychological modularity.

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Object individuation using property/kind information in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Primate Social Cognition: Thirty Years After Premack and Woodruff

Primate brains in the wild: the sensory bases for social interactions

scientific article published in August 2004

Primate cognition: putting two and two together

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Probing the limits of tool competence: experiments with two non-tool-using species (Cercopithecus aethiops and Saguinus oedipus).

scientific article published on 8 December 2005

Psychopaths fail to automatically take the perspective of others.

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Reflections of other minds: how primate social cognition can inform the function of mirror neurons

scientific article published on 27 March 2006

Representing tools: how two non-human primate species distinguish between the functionally relevant and irrelevant features of a tool

scientific article published on May 8, 2003

Rhesus monkeys attribute perceptions to others

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Rhesus monkeys show human-like changes in gaze following across the lifespan.

scientific article published in May 2016

Rotational displacement skills in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

scientific article published on 06 August 2012

Social tolerance in a despotic primate: co-feeding between consortship partners in rhesus macaques

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Solving small spaces: investigating the use of landmark cues in brown capuchins (Cebus apella).

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Spontaneous Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys

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The Influence of Interactions with Dogs on Affect, Anxiety, and Arousal in Children

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

The evolution of intergroup bias: perceptions and attitudes in rhesus macaques

scientific article published in March 2011

The evolution of self-control

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The evolutionary roots of human decision making

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The limits of endowment effects in great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus).

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The origins of belief representation: monkeys fail to automatically represent others' beliefs

scientific article published on 27 December 2013

The origins of cognitive dissonance: evidence from children and monkeys

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The thinking ape: the enigma of human consciousness.

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Tolerant Barbary macaques maintain juvenile levels of social attention in old age, but despotic rhesus macaques do not.

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Training differences predict dogs' (Canis lupus familiaris) preferences for prosocial others

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Understanding the role of mirror neurons in action understanding will require more than a domain-general account

scientific article published on April 2014

Units of visual individuation in rhesus macaques: objects or unbound features?

scientific article published in January 2006

What Cognitive Representations Support Primate Theory of Mind?

scientific article published on April 2016

What do monkeys know about others' knowledge?

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What is unique about shared reality? Insights from a new comparison species

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Young children are more generous when others are aware of their actions

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