How animals classify friends and foes

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-6

  Schusterman, Ronald J ^a   Reichmuth, Colleen J ^a   Kastak, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Kin recognition; Referential communication; Social cognition; Stimulus equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034134798     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00047     Document Type: Article

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