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Prosocial behaviour in animals: the influence of social relationships, communication and rewards
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cronin, K. A.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Cronin, Katherine A.
- ORCID
- Cronin, Katherine A.
- Venue
- Animal Behaviour
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-11
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1085-1093
- ISSN
- 0003-3472 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2095999274
- Cited by
- 205
- References
- 74
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- FWCI
- 18.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Animal Behaviour (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Comparative Cognitive Anthropology Group of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- prosocial behavior, primate social behavior, interpersonal relationships, communication, reward, inequity, contextual factors, phylogenetic patterns, proximate mechanisms
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