Affiliation, empathy, and the origins of Theory of Mind

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

Volumn 110, Issue SUPPL2, 2013, Pages 10349-10356

  Seyfarth, Robert M ^a   Cheney, Dorothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Personality; Primates

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BABOON; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEATH; EMPATHY; FITNESS; GROOMING; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BONDING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORY OF MIND; WILD ANIMAL;

PERSONALITY; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PRIMATES;

EID: 84879291771     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301223110     Document Type: Review

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