Competing demands of prosociality and equity in monkeys

Brosnan, Sarah F.; Houser, Daniel; Leimgruber, Kristin L.; Xiao, Erte; Chen, Tianwen; Waal, Frans B. M. de

doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.02.003

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“…table 1]. Moreover, in the wild, coalitions, which are a form of cooperative behavior, are not observed, and cooperation seems to be maintained despite unequal outcomes between the participants [Chalmeau et al, 1997], an outcome which is in contrast to chimpanzees [Melis et al, 2006] and capuchins [Brosnan et al, 2006;Brosnan et al, 2010a]. It may be that orangutans are capable of cooperation, but do not normally choose to do so, possibly a secondary feature derived from their far less gregarious social organization.…”

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Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Do Not Form Expectations Based on Their Partner’s Outcomes

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Several primate species form expectations based on others’ outcomes, responding negatively when their outcomes differ from their partners’. The function and evolutionary pathway of this behavior are unknown, in part because all of the species which have been tested thus far share traits related to a gregarious lifestyle, intelligence, and cooperativeness. Our goal was to test whether inequity is a homology among primates or a convergence by comparing one species known to show social comparisons, the chimpanzee, to another great ape which differs on several of these life history characteristics. Using a protocol identical to one used previously with chimpanzees, we tested whether orangutans, an intelligent but predominantly solitary species with few opportunities to cooperate, responded similarly. To allow for a strong comparison with chimpanzees (and other species), we used socially housed adults of both sexes, tested with members of their social group. Orangutans did not respond negatively to inequity, supporting previous findings and indicating that inequity responses in apes are likely a convergence based on either sociality or cooperative tendency. These results in such closely related species highlight the need for additional comparative studies to understand better the function and evolution of social behaviors.

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Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Do Not Form Expectations Based on Their Partner’s Outcomes

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“…Even in studies that found evidence for prosocial tendencies, the effects sizes are often rather small (e.g., Brosnan et al, 2010a;Burkart et al, 2007;Lakshminarayanan and Santos, 2008), which may explain the low replication rate. However, given a presumed publication bias for positive results, these findings should be interpreted with caution.…”

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“…Capuchin monkeys barely differentiated in an instrumental helping paradigm between a partner being present or absent both when they were presented with food rewards and when they received tokens that could be exchanged for food (Brosnan et al, 2010a). However, it is possible that in some conditions a ceiling effect masked a difference between the social test condition and the no-partner control condition.…”

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Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: Cognitive and motivational determinants

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2017

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Social interactions are the result of individuals’ cooperative and competitive tendencies expressed over an extended period of time. Although social manipulation, i.e., using another individual to achieve one’s own goals, is a crucial aspect of social interactions, there has been no comprehensive attempt to differentiate its various types and to map its cognitive and motivational determinants. For this purpose, we survey in this article the experimental literature on social interactions in nonhuman primates. We take social manipulation, illustrated by a case study with orangutans (Pongo abelii), as our starting point and move in two directions. First, we will focus on a flexibility/sociality axis that includes technical problem solving, social tool-use and communication. Second, we will focus on a motivational/prosociality axis that includes exploitation, cooperation, and helping. Combined, the two axes offer a way to capture a broad range of social interactions performed by human and nonhuman primates

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“…There is evidence that they notice the discrepancy (Brosnan, Talbot et al 2010), and it may be that our experimental designs are not conducive to eliciting such prosocial responses (Murphy and Miller 1955). In particular, as discussed above, despite chimpanzees' apparent disinterest in their partners' outcomes (Silk, Brosnan et al 2005;Jensen, Hare et al 2006), capuchin monkeys are quite responsive (de Waal, Leimgruber et al 2008), even to the point of bringing their partner more than they will receive (Lakshminarayanan and Santos 2008;Brosnan, Houser et al 2010). Thus, future work is needed to delineate the magnitude of this apparent difference between humans and other primates.…”

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“…However, it soon became clear that there was more to the story. Capuchin monkeys, for instance, routinely provide benefits to partners (de Waal, Leimgruber et al 2008), even when their partner stands to gain more than they do (Lakshminarayanan and Santos 2008;Brosnan, Houser et al 2010). Moreover, cooperatively breeding callithrichids, who share parental duties among the mated pair as well as unweaned offspring, typically behave prosocially (Burkart, Fehr et al 2007;Cronin, Schroeder et al 2010) (although this is not always the casesee Cronin, Schroeder et al 2009;Stevens 2010).…”

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The importance of risk tolerance and knowledge when considering the evolution of inequity responses across the primates

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2013

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Competing demands of prosociality and equity in monkeys

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Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Do Not Form Expectations Based on Their Partner’s Outcomes

Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Do Not Form Expectations Based on Their Partner’s Outcomes

Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: Cognitive and motivational determinants

The importance of risk tolerance and knowledge when considering the evolution of inequity responses across the primates

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