Attention to social stimuli is modulated by sex and exposure time in tufted capuchin monkeys

Schino, Gabriele; Carducci, Paola; Truppa, Valentina

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.12.019

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“…It is also interesting to note that mandrills differentiated between grooming and sitting in contact. Although we cannot exclude that it was the slightly greater activity required by grooming that captured the mandrills' attention, the recent observation that capuchin monkeys look at still pictures of grooming more than at pictures of two nongrooming individuals suggests it is grooming itself that primates find particularly interesting (Schino et al, 2020). It should also be noted that human observers often conflate grooming and passive contact as indicators of general affiliation (e.g., Silk, Cheney, & Seyfarth, 2013), although these two behaviors imply different costs and benefits and seem to be regarded by monkeys themselves as differentially worth of attention.…”

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“…Mandrills seemed to be interested in the social interactions among their group mates. Very little comparable information is available in the literature, two exceptions being a study by Kret et al (2016) that showed bonobos biased their attention towards pictures of grooming and sexual behavior, and a study by Schino et al (2020) that reported similar results for male, but not female, tufted capuchin monkeys. Whether this is a general primate pattern remains to be ascertained.…”

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“…Indeed, two recent experimental studies reported that bonobos ( Pan paniscus ) and tufted capuchin monkeys ( Sapajus sp.) biased their attention towards images of conspecifics grooming (Kret, Jaasma, Bionda, & Wijnen, 2016; Schino, Carducci, & Truppa, 2020), while a third one showed Barbary macaques ( Macaca sylvanus ) attend to videos of scratching, possibly as a way to monitor the emotional state of conspecifics (Whitehouse, Micheletta, Kaminski, & Waller, 2016).…”

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Monitoring of group mates in relation to their behavior in mandrills

Schino

Scerbo

2020

American J Primatol

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Primates are known to have considerable knowledge about the social relationships that link their group mates and are likely to derive this information from observing the social interactions that occur in their social group. They may, therefore, be hypothesized to pay particular attention to the social interactions involving group mates. In this study, we evaluated how the attention captive mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) devote to their group mates was modulated by the behavior of the latter.Mandrills looked most frequently at foraging individuals and least frequently at sleeping individuals. Mandrills also looked at grooming individuals more than at individuals that were simply sitting in contact. Grooming dyads were looked at regardless of the social rank and kinship of the individuals involved. These results contribute to our understanding of how primates obtain their social knowledge. K E Y W O R D S attention, grooming, Mandrillus sphinx, social cognition

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Monitoring of group mates in relation to their behavior in mandrills

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2020

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“…It is possible that when viewing familiar individuals, pre-existing knowledge about those individuals interacts with attentional processes, thereby introducing more variation in what captures attention. Other research indeed suggests that social characteristics of the observer in relation to the observed individual(s) may play a role in how emotions are processed; attention has been shown to be modulated by sex 33 , social bond 34,35 , rank 36 , and kinship 36 . The current study sample does not allow us to disentangle potential effects of social characteristics.…”

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Attention Towards Emotions is Modulated by Familiarity with the Expressor. A Comparison Between Bonobos and Humans

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Bionda

Kret

2020

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Why can humans be intolerant of, yet also be empathetic towards strangers? This cardinal question has rarely been studied in our closest living relatives, bonobos. Yet, their striking xenophilic tendencies make them an interesting model for reconstructing the socio-emotional capacities of the last common ancestor of hominids. Within a series of dot-probe experiments, we compared bonobos' and humans' attention towards scenes depicting familiar (kith and kin) or unfamiliar individuals with emotional or neutral expressions. Results show that attention of bonobos is immediately captured by emotional scenes depicting unfamiliar bonobos, but not by emotional groupmates (Experiment 1) or expressions of humans, irrespective of familiarity (Experiment 2).Using a large community sample, Experiment 3 shows that human attention is mostly captured by emotional rather than neutral expressions of family and friends. On the one hand, our results show that an attentional bias towards emotions is a shared phenomenon between humans and bonobos, but on the other, that both species have their own unique evolutionarily informed bias. These findings support previously proposed adaptive explanations for xenophilia in bonobos which potentially biases them towards emotional expressions of unfamiliar conspecifics, and parochialism in humans, which makes them sensitive to the emotional expressions of close others. FAMILIARITY MODULATES EMOTION ATTENTION

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“…Other research indeed suggests that the social characteristics of the observer in relation to the observed individual(s) may play a role in how emotions are processed. For instance, attention can be modulated by sex (Schino et al, 2020), the social bond (Kutsukake, 2006; Whitehouse et al, 2016), rank (Lewis et al, 2021; Micheletta et al, 2015; Schino & Sciarretta, 2016), and kinship (Schino & Sciarretta, 2016). The current study sample did not allow us to disentangle the potential effects of social characteristics on an attentional bias toward emotions, but doing so in a new study would be a useful next step.…”

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Attention toward emotions is modulated by familiarity with the expressor: A comparison between bonobos and humans.

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Kret³

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Why can humans be intolerant of, yet also be empathic toward strangers? This cardinal question can be tackled by studying emotions in our closest living relatives, bonobos. Their striking xenophilic tendencies make them an interesting model for reconstructing the socioemotional capacities of the last common ancestor of hominids. Within two dot-probe studies, we compared bonobos’ and humans’ attention toward scenes depicting familiar (kith and kin) or unfamiliar individuals with emotional or neutral expressions. Results show that the attention of bonobos is biased toward emotional scenes depicting unfamiliar bonobos, but not toward emotional groupmates (Study 1). In contrast, Study 2 shows that human attention is biased toward emotional rather than neutral expressions of family and friends, but not toward unfamiliar others. On the one hand, our results show that an attentional bias toward emotions is a shared phenomenon between humans and bonobos, but on the other, both species have their own unique evolutionarily informed biases. These findings support previously proposed adaptive explanations for xenophilia in bonobos that potentially biases them toward emotional expressions of unfamiliar conspecifics, and parochialism in humans, which makes them sensitive to the emotional expressions of close others.

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Attention to social stimuli is modulated by sex and exposure time in tufted capuchin monkeys

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Monitoring of group mates in relation to their behavior in mandrills

Monitoring of group mates in relation to their behavior in mandrills

Attention Towards Emotions is Modulated by Familiarity with the Expressor. A Comparison Between Bonobos and Humans

Attention toward emotions is modulated by familiarity with the expressor: A comparison between bonobos and humans.

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