Self-recognition in an Asian elephant

By Joshua M. Plotnik, F. D. de Waal, D. Reiss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006

597 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Genetics, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f02ebd653f0db82cbe8971985523dfaaeec4a11d

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Genetics

1. A. Schore
2. D. Broom
3. Christina M. Colvin
4. L. Marino
5. J. Poole
6. Phyllis C. Lee
7. H. Sena
8. Kiera L. Moynihan

In Social Psychology

1. A. Schore
2. F. D. de Waal
3. D. Broom
4. Christina M. Colvin
5. L. Marino
6. H. Sena
7. Kiera L. Moynihan
8. P. Rochat

Citations in the corpus

• How Elephants are Opening Doors: Developmental Neuroethology, Attachment and Social Context (2007, background): “Resulting impairment of socio-affective circuits, especially in higher cortical regions, underlies many abnormal and inappropriate emotional responses that express at later stages of life (Poeggel et al. 2005).”
• Cultural Variations in Children’s Mirror Self-Recognition (2011, result): “These results suggest that there are profound cross-cultural differences in the meaning of the MSR test, questioning the validity of the mark test as a universal index of self-concept in children’s development.”
• Sensory stimulation as environmental enrichment for captive animals: A review (2009, unknown): “Gallup, 1970) dolphins (Reiss and Marino, 2001), elephants (Plotnik et al., 2006).”
• Putting the altruism back into altruism: the evolution of empathy. (2008, background): “Gallup (1983) had already predicted MSR in dolphins and elephants, and these predictions have now been confirmed by the mark test, in which an individual needs to locate a mark on itself that it cannot see without a mirror (Plotnik et al. 2006, Reiss & Marino 2001).”
• Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion, and Personality in Sus domesticus (2015, background): “…are interesting because they are similar to the contingency-checking behaviors displayed by other animals e.g., elephants, dolphins and chimpanzees (Plotnik et al., 2006; Reiss & Marino, 2001), who pass the definitive mark test, suggesting the pigs could have been monitoring their own movements in…”
• Pigs learn what a mirror image represents and use it to obtain information (2009, methodology): “Tests with chimpanzees, an elephant, dolphins and 93 magpies that had had previous experience of mirrors, using marks on the body visible 94 in a mirror, led to the individuals touching or apparently looking at the marks (Gallup 95 1982, Reiss and Marino 2001, Plotnik et al 2006, Prior et al 2008).”
• Do Elephants Show Empathy (2008, background): “Furthermore, elephants have recently been suggested to pass mirror self-recognition tests ( Plotnik, de Waal and Reiss, 2006 ), and Gallup (1982) has linked the capacity for empathy with the ability for mirror self-recognition.”