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Social Facilitation of Cognition in Rhesus Monkeys: Audience Vs. Coaction
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Social psychology has long established that the mere presence of a conspecific, be it an active co-performer (coaction effect), or a passive spectator (audience effect) changes behavior in humans. Yet, the process mediating this fundamental social influence has so far eluded us. Brain research and its nonhuman primate animal model, the rhesus macaque, could shed new light on this long debated issue. For this approach to be fruitful, however, we need to improve our patchy knowledge about social presence influence in rhesus macaques. Here, seven adults (two dyads and one triad) performed a simple cognitive task consisting in touching images to obtain food treats, alone vs. in presence of a co-performer or a spectator. As in humans, audience sufficed to enhance performance to the same magnitude as coaction. Effect sizes were however four times larger than those typically reported in humans in similar tasks. Both findings are an encouragement to pursue brain and behavior research in the rhesus macaque to help solve the riddle of social facilitation mechanisms.
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- Authors
- Reynaud, A. J., Guedj, C., Hadj-Bouziane, F., Meunier, M., & Monfardini, E.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Meunier, Martine
- Monfardini, Elisabetta
- Venue
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2015-12-01
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 328-328
- ISSN
- 1662-5153 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4664694
- OpenAlex
- W2220501819
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 2.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-LABX-0042)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- social facilitation, audience effects, rhesus monkeys, social presence, cognitive performance, primate social behavior
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