Young and juvenile chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) reactions to intentional versus accidental and inadvertent actions

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 42, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 205-218

  Povinelli, Daniel J ^a   Perilloux, Helen K ^a   Reaux, James E ^a   Bierschwale, Donna T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzees; Intentional behavior; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; NONHUMAN;

BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY; CHIMPANZEE; INTENTIONAL BEHAVIOUR;

PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0031597509     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00077-6     Document Type: Article

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