Humans are not alone in computing how others see the world

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 213-221

  Whiten, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Deception; Machiavellian intelligence; Mentalism; Mind reading; Perspective taking; Social cognition; Social intelligence; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COGNITION; CONSPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PAN;

EID: 84880751035     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.04.021     Document Type: Article

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