Monkeys fail to reciprocate in an exchange task

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 745-751

  Pelé, Marie ^a   Thierry, Bernard ^a   Call, Josep ^b   Dufour, Valérie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economics; Primates; Reciprocity; Token; Trading

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CEBUS; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACACA; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA; MALE; TOKEN ECONOMY;

ANIMALIA; CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA; MACACA; MACACA TONKEANA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77955711032     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-010-0325-x     Document Type: Article

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