Chimpanzees are more skilful in competitive than in cooperative cognitive tasks

By Brian Hare, Michael Tomasello. 2004

351 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Genetics, Social Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Michael Tomasello
2. J. Call
3. Brian Hare
4. Henrike Moll
5. Malinda Carpenter
6. A. Melis
7. E. MacLean
8. Amanda Seed

In Genetics

1. Michael Tomasello
2. Brian Hare
3. J. Call
4. Henrike Moll
5. A. Melis
6. Malinda Carpenter
7. E. Herrmann
8. K. McComb

In Social Psychology

1. Michael Tomasello
2. Brian Hare
3. J. Call
4. Malinda Carpenter
5. A. Melis
6. Henrike Moll
7. E. MacLean
8. E. Herrmann

Citations in the corpus

• Shared intentionality. (2007, background): “Hare and Tomasello (2004) compared apes' comprehension of the pointing gesture in a hiding–finding game, as above, to their comprehension of a similar but different reaching cue in the same task.”
• The use of human-given cues by domestic horses, Equus caballus, during an object choice task (2010, background): “…enculturated subjects, or slightly different methodologies including competitive rather than cooperative paradigms, have shown that some primate subjects are able to use pointing and more subtle human cues such as gaze (Itakura et al. 1999; Hare & Tomasello 2004; Barth et al. by Elsevier Ltd.”
• Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition (2005, background): “In experimental comparisons, at least some primate species show their most sophisticated social-cognitive skills in competitive rather than in cooperative situations (Hare and Tomasello 2004; Hare et al. 2000; 2001).”
• Individual differences in cooperative communicative skills are more similar between dogs and humans than chimpanzees (2017, background): “…& Tomasello, 2008; de Waal, Boesch, Horner, & Whiten, 2008), several studies reveal no difference in apes' use of social cues depending on whether subjects interacted with a human or conspecific (Brauer, Call, & Tomasello, 2005; Hare & Tomasello, 2004; Itakura, Agnetta, Hare, & Tomasello, 1999).”
• Monkeys match the number of voices they hear to the number of faces they see. (2005, background): “Given the established social expertise of nonhuman primates [23–26] and the suggestion that wild animals use the number of vocalizations they hear to make defensive decisions [16, 17], we ex-”
• Primate Cognition (2010, background): “For example, chimpanzees react differently to very similar behaviors when a human is refraining from giving food because he is unwilling versus unable to do so (Call, Hare, Carpenter, & Tomasello, 2004).”
• Rhesus monkeys, Macaca mulatta, know what others can and cannot hear (2006, background): “…et al., in press), rhesus monkeys (Flombaum & Santos 2005) and capuchins, Cebus apella (D. E. Lyons & L. R. Santos, unpublished data) can reason about the minds of others when tested using experimental methodologies that require competition (see also Hare & Tomasello 2004; Santos et al., in press).”
• Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, neutral): “…interactions as mainly competitive, and routinely pass up opportunities to provide aid to others even at extremely low or no cost to themselves (Hare and Tomasello 2004; Silk et al. 2005; Jensen et al. 2006; Vonk et al. 2008).3 Perhaps the most telling fact about performing behavioral…”