Hierarchical Steepness, Counter-Aggression, and Macaque Social Style Scale

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 915-925

  Balasubramaniam, Krishna N ^a   Dittmar, Katharina ^a   Berman, Carol M ^a   Butovskaya, Marina ^b   Cooper, Mathew A ^c   Majolo, Bonaventura ^d   Ogawa, Hideshi ^e   Schino, Gabriele ^f   Thierry, Bernard ^g   De Waal, Frans B M ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^e CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counter aggression; Hierarchical steepness; Independent contrasts; Macaques; Social style scale

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DOMINANCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MACACA; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84865322486     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22044     Document Type: Article

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