Engineering cooperation in chimpanzees: tolerance constraints on cooperation

By A. Melis, Brian Hare, Michael Tomasello. 2006

376 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. A. Melis
3. M. Planck
4. Brian Hare
5. Felix Warneken
6. E. Wyman
7. E. Herrmann
8. Amrisha Vaish

In Genetics

1. Michael Tomasello
2. Brian Hare
3. Á. Miklósi
4. R. Wrangham
5. A. Melis
6. J. Topál
7. Enikö Kubinyi
8. M. Planck

In Social Psychology

1. Michael Tomasello
2. A. Melis
3. Brian Hare
4. Filippo Aureli
5. G. Schino
6. R. Wrangham
7. M. Planck
8. E. Wyman

Citations in the corpus

• The dog as a model for understanding human social behavior (2009, result): “In line with this assumption recent experiments seem to provide evidence that apes (Melis et al., 2006), unlike humans (Warneken and Tomasello, 2007), show limitations in cooperation.”
• Cooperative problem solving in a social carnivore (2009, positive): “j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / a n b e h a v of the task, some studies have revealed social constraints on performance, such that when partner preferences are taken into account, success can be achieved more readily (Melis et al. 2006).”
• Chimpanzee helping in collaborative and noncollaborative contexts (2010, methodology): “Nine of the 12 subjects had previously been tested in a cooperative pulling task that examined effects of tolerance and competition on cooperation although only one pair tested in the current study (Robert and Patrick) had worked together in this previous experiment (Melis et al. 2006b).”
• Chimpanzees coordinate in a negotiation game (2009, methodology): “(1) Melis et al., 2006a, (2) Melis et al., 2006b, (3) Warneken et al., 2007.”
• Neuronal Reward and Decision Signals: From Theories to Data. (2015, background): “Chimpanzees and rhesus, cebus, and marmoset monkeys show prosocial tendencies and actively observe rewards in conspecifics (77, 123, 359).”
• Chimps of a feather sit together: chimpanzee friendships are based on homophily in personality (2014, background): “336 Indeed, in experimental conditions chimpanzee friends cooperate better than non-337 friends (Melis et al., 2006), although it is not clear whether this stems from similarity 338 in personality.”
• Coordination of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a Stag Hunt Game (2011, background): “In line with this, Melis et al. (2006b) showed that dominance constrains chimpanzees’ ability to solve a cooperative problem if sharing of food is involved.”
• Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010, methodology): “This great ape pattern may be clearly seen in the experiment of Melis et al. ( 2006a ) in which pairs of chimpanzees had trouble collaborating if the food reward was not predivided for them (whereas human children had no such trouble).”
• Chapter 2 Reciprocal Altruism in Primates (2009, background): “Recent experimental evidence also concurs in supporting the notion that primates use partner choice to maximize received benefits (Melis et al., 2006a).”
• Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012, background): “Risk management is important to those with limited storage, so bet hedging, and division of labor (by sex or age) was probably an early form of cooperation, coevolving with collective foraging.”
• Origins of human cooperation and morality. (2013, background): “Note that although chimpanzees are interdependent with one another in the hunt itself— and indeed experiments have shown that chimpanzees understand when they need the other participants for success (Melis et al. 2006)— individuals do not depend on the group hunting of monkeys to survive.”
• Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012, background): “Thus, Warneken et al. (2011) presented pairs of 3-year-old children with the same task presented to chimpanzees by Melis, Hare, and Tomasello (2006b): a board they had to pull in together, with food either (i) predivided on the two ends of the board or (ii) clumped in the middle.”
• Association patterns among wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) reflect sex differences in cooperation (2008, positive): “Males Theory predicts that frequent association facilitates cooperation through the development of tolerance (Melis et al. 2006) and/or the opportunity for reciprocation (Trivers 1971; Axelrod and Hamilton 1981).”
• Do chimpanzees reciprocate received favours (2008, methodology): “Previous studies on cooperation in which subjects had participated were: (1) Melis et al. 2006a; (2) Melis et al. 2006b; (3) A.P.”