Empathy versus parsimony in understanding post-conflict affiliation in monkeys: model and empirical data.

Post-conflict affiliation between former opponents and bystanders occurs in several species of non-human primates. It is classified in four categories of which affiliation received by the former victim, 'consolation', has received most attention. The hypotheses of cognitive constraint and...

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Main Authors: Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Marina Butovskaya, Bernard Thierry, Charlotte Korinna Hemelrijk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3956673?pdf=render