{"title":"Testing the role of macaque social tolerance in ability to follow human eye gaze.","authors":"T. Freeberg","doi":"10.1037/com0000317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000317","url":null,"abstract":"Comments on an article by R. Bettle and A. G. Rosati (see record 2022-45647-001). The testing of subjects' abilities to follow human eye gaze has been particularly well studied in nonhuman primates, and this is the question addressed by the Featured Article for this issue by Bettle and Rosati. As described in Bettle and Rosati, he competition hypothesis, stemming from the Machiavellian Intelligence Hypothesis, predicts that species that are more competitive and aggressive will exhibit greater ability to use cues like eye gaze. The tolerance hypothesis, conversely, predicts that species that are more tolerant and affiliative will exhibit greater ability to use these cues. Bettle and Rosati tested Barbary macaques with identical methods. Compared to rhesus macaques, Barbary macaques are relatively tolerant and highly affiliative. Importantly, the authors coded the video-recorded data blind and with high interobserver reliability. The authors found that Barbary macaques were also able to follow human eye gaze: Although roughly half the individuals looked up and followed human's eye gaze in the no barrier condition, only a third looked up in the barrier condition where they could not see what the human was looking at by doing so. These results were quite comparable to the earlier study conducted with rhesus macaques, suggesting that tolerant and less competitive species actually show similar skills. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72644720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthony Roig, H. Meunier, Eva Poulingue, Angélique Marty, R. Thouvarecq, J. Rivière
{"title":"Is economic risk proneness in young children (Homo sapiens) driven by exploratory behavior? A comparison with capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella).","authors":"Anthony Roig, H. Meunier, Eva Poulingue, Angélique Marty, R. Thouvarecq, J. Rivière","doi":"10.1037/com0000314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000314","url":null,"abstract":"Economic risk proneness is displayed by human children and some nonhuman primate species. To explore the role of attraction toward the unknown and the unexpected in economic choices, 2.5-year-old children and capuchin monkeys were presented in Experiment 1 with a gambling task in which participants had to choose between 2 options, a secure option and a risky option characterized by an unexpected event. In contrast to capuchins, toddlers showed a strong preference for the risky option over the safe option. In Experiment 2, toddlers maintained their risky choices despite the increased salience of the safe option. In contrast to toddlers, capuchins preferentially chose the safe option in this second experiment. We argue that capuchins' risk aversion reflects an exploitation strategy of known and safe options. In human children, the attractiveness of uncertain reward appears to be linked to their novelty seeking. We argue that toddlers' risk proneness in the gain domain reflects an exploratory search strategy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73994503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primate origins of corepresentation and cooperative flexibility: A comparative study with common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), brown capuchins (Sapajus apella), and Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana).","authors":"F. Miss, H. Meunier, Judith M Burkart","doi":"10.1037/com0000315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000315","url":null,"abstract":"Human joint action is generally facilitated by the tendency to represent not only one's own task and behavior but also the partner's. Yet, under some conditions, such as in the joint Simon task, corepresentation can cause interference and hampers, rather than facilitates, joint performance. A competent cooperator should thus also be able to flexibly inhibit corepresentation if that is conducive to cooperation success. To investigate the evolutionary origin of corepresentation, as well as the cooperative flexibility to inhibit it when necessary, we tested brown capuchins and Tonkean macaques in the joint Simon task and compared them with the previously tested marmosets. Corepresentation was present in all 3 species, but its strength and the cooperation success varied substantially. The cooperatively breeding marmosets showed the weakest corepresentation effect and, therefore, highest cooperation success, and they were the only ones to use mutual gaze when coordination with the partner was necessary. Cooperative flexibility was therefore not correlated with brain size but with the prevalence of cooperation in nature. This conclusion was corroborated by species differences in gazing patterns and suggests that the drivers of cooperative flexibility in humans were not solely cognitive. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"313 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77512412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Primate Origins of Corepresentation and Cooperative Flexibility: A Comparative Study With Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), Brown Capuchins (Sapajus apella), and Tonkean Macaques (Macaca tonkeana)","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/com0000315.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000315.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86824677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Inhibitory Control and Cue Relevance Modulate Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) Performance in a Spatial Foraging Task","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/com0000313.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000313.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77802853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for Sensitivity to Line-of-Sight in Tolerant Versus Despotic Macaques (Macaca sylvanus and Macaca mulatta)","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/com0000309.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000309.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81366442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supplemental Material for A Modified Version of the Dimensional Change Card Sort Task Tests Cognitive Flexibility in Children (Homo sapiens) and Cotton-Top Tamarins (Saguinus oedipus)","authors":"","doi":"10.1037/com0000312.supp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000312.supp","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89695542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tomer J Czaczkes, Anja Berger, Alexandra Koch, Gesine Dreisbach
{"title":"Conflict interference in an insect.","authors":"Tomer J Czaczkes, Anja Berger, Alexandra Koch, Gesine Dreisbach","doi":"10.1037/com0000294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000294","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Response conflicts occur when the correct goal-congruent response is weaker than an alternative but incorrect response. To overcome response conflicts, the stronger response has to be inhibited, making the study of response conflicts an important research topic in higher order cognition. Response conflicts often result in conflict interference-an increase in error rates and response times. Here, we ask whether an invertebrate-the ant, <i>Lasius niger</i>-can solve such response conflicts and, if so, whether it suffers from conflict interference. We also ask whether ants show congruency sequence effects, where subjects show transiently reduced conflict inference when conflicts repeat. We developed task-mimicking aspects of the Stroop color-word test, in which ants must learn to follow a neutral cue (a scent) on a Y maze but ignore a dominant and innately meaningful signal (a pheromone trail). The pheromone can be congruent with the scent cue (lead to the same maze arm) or be incongruent. Both accuracy and task-solving latency suffered when the information sources were incongruent. There was no evidence of congruency sequence effects. Because of limitations of the experimental design, we cannot rule out that insects would also show a congruency sequence effect under a different experimental paradigm. Although the methodology is not directly comparable to human studies, the presence of clear conflict interference suggests parallels between insect and human information processing, in spite of completely different brains. This powerful and straightforward methodology opens the possibility of exploring conflict interference in the presence of prepotent response tendencies in an invertebrate model. We hope this work encourages the field of response competition to use the vast literature on response competition in animal behavior studies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"136 1","pages":"35-43"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39556626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Walter T Herbranson, Hunter Pluckebaum, Jaidyanne Podsobinski, Zachary Hartzell
{"title":"Don't let the pigeon chair the search committee: Pigeons (Columba livia) match humans' (Homo sapiens) suboptimal approach to the secretary problem.","authors":"Walter T Herbranson, Hunter Pluckebaum, Jaidyanne Podsobinski, Zachary Hartzell","doi":"10.1037/com0000304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000304","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The secretary problem is a notorious mathematical puzzle in which one attempts to hire the best available candidate from a pool of known size. Under specific constraints, the problem has an ideal solution, but it is difficult for humans to solve. In particular, humans generally consider too few options from the available pool and in doing so make inferior hires. Three experiments investigated pigeons' and humans' choices on a version of the secretary problem. Pigeons performed suboptimally by choosing too soon, but suffered only limited costs to their rate of earned reinforcement. Depending on the instruction set, human participants approximated either prior suboptimal human results or current pigeons' results. These results may provide some insight into what makes the problem difficult to solve and how the secretary problem connects with decisions in the real world. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"136 1","pages":"3-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39646520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delayed gratification: A grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) will wait for more tokens.","authors":"Irene M Pepperberg, Virginia A Rosenberger","doi":"10.1037/com0000306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000306","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Delay of gratification, the ability to forgo an immediate reward and wait to gain a reward better in either quality or quantity, has been used as a metric for temporal discounting, self-control, and the ability to plan for the future in both humans (particularly children) and nonhumans. Several avian species have been able to wait for a better quality reward for up to 15 min, but none seem able to wait for a better quantity reward for any significant period of time. Using a token system (where each wooden heart represents 1 nut piece), we demonstrated that a Grey parrot-who had previously waited up to 15 min for better quality-would now wait for better quantity, again for up to 15 min. Thus, symbolic distancing-that is, removal of the immediate presence of the hedonic item-enabled him to perform at levels comparable with young children on the classic test and might be a viable method for training executive function. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"136 1","pages":"79-89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39751278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}