Human children but not chimpanzees make irrational decisions driven by social comparison

Children, but Not Chimpanzees, Prefer to Collaborate

Human societies are built on collaborative activities. Already from early childhood, human children are skillful and proficient collaborators. They recognize when they need help in solving a problem and actively recruit collaborators [1, 2]. The societies of other primates are also to some degree cooperative. Chimpanzees, for example, engage in a variety of cooperative activities such as border...

Children, but not chimpanzees, have facial correlates of determination.

Facial expressions have long been proposed to be important agents in forming and maintaining cooperative interactions in social groups. Human beings are inordinately cooperative when compared with their closest-living relatives, the great apes, and hence one might expect species differences in facial expressivity in contexts in which cooperation could be advantageous. Here, human children and c...

Chimpanzees make mean-spirited, not prosocial, choices.

Herrmann determination Children , but not chimpanzees , have facial correlates of

Supplementary data ml http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/suppl/2014/03/03/rsbl.2013.0974.DC1.ht "Data Supplement" References http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/3/20130974.full.html#ref-list-1 This article cites 23 articles, 1 of which can be accessed free Subject collections (144 articles) cognition • (734 articles) behaviour • Articles on similar topics can be foun...

Majority-Biased Transmission in Chimpanzees and Human Children, but Not Orangutans

Cultural transmission is a key component of human evolution. Two of humans' closest living relatives, chimpanzees and orangutans, have also been argued to transmit behavioral traditions across generations culturally [1-3], but how much the process might resemble the human process is still in large part unknown. One key phenomenon of human cultural transmission is majority-biased transmission: t...