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A century of getting to know the chimpanzee

scientific article

A comparative study of conflict resolution in macaques: insights into the nature of trait covariation

scientific article published on 06 December 2007

A concept of value during experimental exchange in brown capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella.

scientific article published in September 2004

A proximate perspective on reciprocal altruism.

scientific article published in March 2002

Affiliation promotes the transmission of a social custom: handclasp grooming among captive chimpanzees

scientific article published on 3 September 2005

An Ethogram to Quantify Operating Room Behavior

scientific article published on 26 January 2016

An index of relationship quality based on attachment theory.

scientific article published in March 2002

An inversion effect modified by expertise in capuchin monkeys

scientific article published on 15 May 2011

Animal communication: panel discussion

scientific article published in December 2003

Anthropomorphism and Anthropodenial: Consistency in Our Thinking about Humans and Other Animals

scientific article published in 1999

Ape duos and trios: spontaneous cooperation with free partner choice in chimpanzees

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Ape gestures and language evolution

scientific article

Apes know what others believe

scientific article

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

book by Frans de Waal

Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) reassure others in distress

scientific article

Behavior. Animal conformists

scientific article published in April 2013

Bonobo sex and society

scientific article

Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape

scientific article published in March 1999

Bonobos (Pan paniscus) vocally protest against violations of social expectations

scientific article published in February 2016

Bonobos respond to distress in others: consolation across the age spectrum

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Capuchin cognitive ecology: cooperation based on projected returns

scientific article

Capuchins do cooperate: the advantage of an intuitive task

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) consolation: third-party identity as a window on possible function

scientific article

Chimpanzee food preferences, associative learning, and the origins of cooking

scientific article

Chimpanzee uses manipulative gaze cues to conceal and reveal information to foraging competitor

scientific article published on 27 November 2016

Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes) Are More Averse to Social Than Nonsocial Risk

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) tolerate some degree of inequity while cooperating but refuse to donate effort for nothing

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Chimpanzees empathize with group mates and humans, but not with baboons or unfamiliar chimpanzees

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2014)

Chimpanzees play the ultimatum game

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Chimpanzees prefer African and Indian music over silence.

scientific article

Chimpanzees, cooking, and a more comparative psychology

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

Comparing social skills of children and apes.

scientific article published in February 2008

Computer animations stimulate contagious yawning in chimpanzees.

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Conditional copying fidelity in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

scientific article published in February 2010

Conflict avoidance among rhesus monkeys: coping with short-term crowding

Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees

scientific article published on 21 August 2005

Consolation as possible expression of sympathetic concern among chimpanzees

scientific article

Context modulates signal meaning in primate communication

scholarly article

Controlled studies of chimpanzee cultural transmission

scientific article published on January 2009

Copying without rewards: socially influenced foraging decisions among brown capuchin monkeys.

scientific article published in July 2007

Darwin's last laugh

scientific article published in July 2009

Darwin's legacy and the study of primate visual communication

scientific article published in December 2003

Development of socio-emotional competence in bonobos

scientific article

Discrimination of emotional facial expressions by tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella).

scientific article

Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) console a bereaved mother?

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Dominance style of Japanese macaques compared with rhesus and stumptail macaques

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Elephants know when they need a helping trunk in a cooperative task

scientific article

Ethological observations of social behavior in the operating room

scientific article published on 02 July 2018

Evolution of responses to (un)fairness

scientific article

Extraordinary elephant perception

scientific article

Face recognition in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

scientific article published in May 2009

Faces and Behinds: Chimpanzee Sex Perception

Fair refusal by capuchin monkeys

scientific article published in Nature

Faithful replication of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children

scientific article

Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Fishy cooperation

scientific article

Food sharing and reciprocal obligations among chimpanzees

Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals

TEDxPeachtree

Gambling primates: reactions to a modified Iowa Gambling Task in humans, chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys

scientific article

Giving is self-rewarding for monkeys

scholarly article

Good Natured

book by Frans de Waal

Hard-wired for good?<b>The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good</b><i>Donald W. Pfaff</i>Oxford University Press, 2014. 305 pp.

scientific article published in 2015

Hierarchical steepness, counter-aggression, and macaque social style scale

scientific article published on 11 June 2012

How animals do business

scientific article published in April 2005

How chimpanzees cooperate in a competitive world

scientific article published on 22 August 2016

How fairly do chimpanzees play the ultimatum game?

scientific article published on May 2013

Human nature

scientific article published on 01 June 2017

In-group conformity sustains different foraging traditions in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella)

scientific article

Inequity responses of monkeys modified by effort

scholarly article

Influence of kinship and spatial density on reconciliation and grooming in rhesus monkeys

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Ingroup-outgroup bias in contagious yawning by chimpanzees supports link to empathy

scientific article

Intentional deception in primates

Intranasal Oxytocin Failed to Affect Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Social Behavior

scientific article published on August 2016

Long-term consistency in chimpanzee consolation behaviour reflects empathetic personalities

scientific article

Mammalian empathy: behavioural manifestations and neural basis

scientific article

Methodological problems in the study of contagious yawning

scientific article published on 26 March 2010

Monkeys benefit from reciprocity without the cognitive burden

scientific article

Monkeys recognize the faces of group mates in photographs

scientific article

Monkeys reject unequal pay.

scientific article

Monogamy with a purpose

scientific article (publication date: 17 September 2013)

Natural Normativity: The ‘is’ and ‘ought’ of Animal Behavior ⬇️

journal article from 'Behaviour' published in 2014

Novice chimpanzees cooperate successfully in the presence of experts, but may have limited understanding of the task

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Observer choices during experimental foraging tasks in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

scientific article published on 9 May 2011

One for all

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Only the PAM explains the personalized nature of empathy

scientific article published on 03 November 2017

Partial support from a non-replication: comment on Roma, Silberberg, Ruggiero, and Suomi (2006).

scientific article published in February 2006

Partner effects on food consumption in brown capuchin monkeys.

scientific article published in April 2007

Partner's behavior, not reward distribution, determines success in an unequal cooperative task in capuchin monkeys.

scientific article

Peace lessons from an unlikely source

scientific article

Perseverance and food sharing among closely affiliated female chimpanzees

scientific article published on 27 July 2013

Personality structure in brown capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella): comparisons with chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), orangutans (Pongo spp.), and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

scientific article (publication date: August 2013)

Play signaling and the perception of social rules by juvenile chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

scientific article published in June 2004

Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates

scientific article published in January 2006

Post-conflict affiliation by chimpanzees with aggressors: other-oriented versus selfish political strategy

scientific article

Preliminary data on voluntary food sharing in brown capuchin monkeys

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Prestige affects cultural learning in chimpanzees

scientific article

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved ⬇️

book published in 2006

Prosocial primates: selfish and unselfish motivations ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 12 September 2010)

Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathy

scientific article

Reply to Henrich and Silk: Toward a unified explanation for apes and humans.

scientific article published on August 2013

Reply to Jensen et al.: Equitable offers are not rationally maximizing

scientific article published on May 2013

Reply to Schmidt and Tomasello: Chimpanzees as natural team-players

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Reply to Skoyles: Misplaced assumptions of perfect human prosociality

scientific article published on 6 October 2011

Research chimpanzees may get a break

scientific article

Response to social challenge in young bonnet (Macaca radiata) and pigtail (Macaca nemestrina) macaques is related to early maternal experiences

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Responses to a simple barter task in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes.

scientific article published on 12 April 2005

Robustness mechanisms in primate societies: a perturbation study

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Self-recognition in an Asian elephant

scientific article

Self-recognition in the Asian elephant and future directions for cognitive research with elephants in zoological settings

scientific article

Sex and strife: post-conflict sexual contacts in bonobos

Silent invasion: Imanishi’s primatology and cultural bias in science ⬇️

scientific article published on October 10, 2003

Social facilitation of exploratory foraging behavior in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

scientific article

Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated species

scientific article published on 14 March 2005

Socially learned preferences for differentially rewarded tokens in the brown capuchin monkey (Cebus apella).

scientific article published in June 2004

Spontaneous prosocial choice by chimpanzees

scientific article

Spread of arbitrary conventions among chimpanzees: a controlled experiment.

scientific article published in February 2007

The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

Book by Frans de Waal

The Ape and the Sushi Master

book by Frans de Waal

The Bonobo and the Atheist

A popular science book written by Frans de Waal

The Other “Closest Living Relative”: How Bonobos (Pan paniscus) Challenge Traditional Assumptions about Females, Dominance, Intra- and Intersexual Interactions, and Hominid Evolution

article by AMY R. PARISH et al published 25 January 2006 in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

The antiquity of empathy

scientific article

The formal hierarchy of rhesus macaques: An investigation of the bared-teeth display

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

The influence of phylogeny, social style, and sociodemographic factors on macaque social network structure

scientific article

The monkey in the mirror: hardly a stranger

scientific article

The mother-offspring relationship as a template in social development: Reconciliation in captive brown capuchins (Cebus apella) ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2003

The question of animal emotions

scientific article published on 25 March 2022

The roles of food quality and sex in chimpanzee sharing behavior (Pan troglodytes)

The thief in the mirror

scientific article published on 19 August 2008

Third-party postconflict affiliation of aggressors in chimpanzees

scientific article

Tolerance for inequity may increase with social closeness in chimpanzees

scientific article

Toshisada Nishida (1941–2011): Chimpanzee Rapport

scientific article

Toward a comparative socioecology of the genus Macaca: Different dominance styles in rhesus and stumptail monkeys

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Towards a bottom-up perspective on animal and human cognition

scientific article

Transmission of multiple traditions within and between chimpanzee groups

scientific article

Using cross correlations to investigate how chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) use conspecific gaze cues to extract and exploit information in a foraging competition

scientific article

Visual field information in the face perception of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

scientific article published in December 2003

Visual kin recognition and family resemblance in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

scientific article published in June 2004

What is an animal emotion?

scientific article published on April 2011

With a little help from a friend

scientific article

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