Are apes really inequity averse?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1605, 2006, Pages 3123-3128

  Bräuer, Juliane ^a   Call, Josep ^a   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inequity aversion; Joint attention; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; FOOD PREFERENCE; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD AVERSION; FOOD QUALITY; FRUSTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

HOMINIDAE; PAN;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMINIDAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 39049175819     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3693     Document Type: Article

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