Emotional bookkeeping and high partner selectivity are necessary for the emergence of partner-specific reciprocal affiliation in an agent-based model of primate groups

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Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Evers, Ellen ^a   De Vries, Han ^a   Spruijt, Berry M ^a   Sterck, Elisabeth H M ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL BOOKKEEPING; EXPERIENCE; GROOMING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PARTNER SELECTIVITY; PARTNER SPECIFIC RECIPROCAL AFFILIATION; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; RANK DISTANCE; REINFORCEMENT; REST; SATISFACTION; SIMULATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMMETRY BASED BEHAVIOR; TAXONOMIC RANK; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; FEAR; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

PRIMATES;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FEAR; GROOMING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRIMATES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84926294297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118921     Document Type: Article

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