Monkeys benefit from reciprocity without the cognitive burden

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 15191-15196

  Suchak, Malini ^a   De Waal, Frans B M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Inequity; Mirroring; Tit for tat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEBUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBUS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CEBUS; CEBUS APELLA;

EID: 84866526883     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213173109     Document Type: Article

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