Receiving post-conflict affiliation from the enemy's friend reconciles former opponents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Wittig, Roman M ^a,b   Boesch, Christophe ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; COTE D'IVOIRE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; ZOO ANIMAL;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES VERUS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); COTE D'IVOIRE; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78649549129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013995     Document Type: Article

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