Capuchin monkeys display affiliation toward humans who imitate them

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5942, 2009, Pages 880-883

  Paukner, Annika ^a   Suomi, Stephen J ^a   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^b   Ferrari, Pier F ^a,c  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFILIATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FACILITATION; IMITATION; PRIMATE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMITATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

CEBUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 68949204390     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1176269     Document Type: Article

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