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Prosocial behaviour in animals: the influence of social relationships, communication and rewards
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“For instance, prosocial behaviors have been documented in primates and rodents60, 61.”
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“Although lineages showing high cognitive skills are reported both among mammalian and bird species, mammals are generally believed to have acquired higher prosocial skills compared to non-mammalian vertebrates60, 61.”
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“Detecting others' distress is a prerequisite for helping behavior (Cronin, 2012; Decety et al., 2016).”
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“it is widely viewed and accepted that comparisons of prosociality across experiments are hindered by differing methodologies and measures (Cronin, 2012; Tan, Kwetuenda, & Hare, 2015).”
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“The patterns of prosocial preferences among primates vary considerably both across species and within species (Brosnan, 2011; Brosnan and de Waal, 2014; Cronin, 2012; McAuliffe and Thornton, 2015).”
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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
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 1
- 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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