Third-party social evaluations of humans by monkeys and dogs. (November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Anderson, James R.; Bucher, Benoit; Chijiiwa, Hitomi; Kuroshima, Hika; Takimoto, Ayaka; Fujita, Kazuo
• Is Part Of: Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. Volume 82(2017)
• Page Start: 95
• Page End: 109
• Publication Date: 2017-11
• Subjects: Capuchin monkeys -- Dogs -- Squirrel monkeys -- Social evaluation -- Social cognition -- Exchange -- Fairness -- Reciprocity -- Eavesdropping; Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Neurology -- Periodicals; Behavior -- Periodicals; Ethology -- Periodicals; Neurology -- Periodicals; Psychophysiologie -- Périodiques; Comportement humain -- Périodiques; Animaux -- Mœurs et comportement -- Périodiques; Neurologie -- Périodiques; Animal behavior; Human behavior; Neurology; Psychophysiology; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 573.8
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.01.003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0149-7634

Abstract

Highlights: Capuchin monkeys negatively evaluate people who refuse to help a third party. Capuchin monkeys negatively evaluate people who exchange unfairly with others. Dogs negatively evaluate people who refuse to help their owners. Nonhuman species can engage in third-party based social evaluations. Abstract: Developmental psychologists are increasingly interested in young children's evaluations of individuals based on third-party interactions. Studies have shown that infants react negatively to agents who display harmful intentions toward others, and to those who behave unfairly. We describe experimental studies of capuchin monkeys' and pet dogs' differential reactions to people who are helpful or unhelpful in third-party contexts, and monkeys' responses to people who behave unfairly in exchanges of objects with a third party. We also present evidence that capuchin monkeys monitor the context of failures to help and violations of reciprocity, and that intentionality is one factor underlying their social evaluations of individuals whom they see interacting with others. We conclude by proposing some questions for studies of nonhuman species' third party-based social evaluations.