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The state and expectations of interrater reliability in nonhuman personality research. 非人类人格研究中解读者信度的现状与期望。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1037/com0000439

Alexander J Pritchard

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Does comparative cognition have a WEIRD problem? 比较认知有怪异问题吗？

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-12 DOI: 10.1037/com0000423

Kristin Andrews, Susana Monsó

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Is it weird in here and does comparative cognition suffer from main-character syndrome? 这里是不是很奇怪，比较认知是否患有主角综合症？

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1037/com0000443

Michael J Beran

{"title":"Is it weird in here and does comparative cognition suffer from main-character syndrome?","authors":"Michael J Beran","doi":"10.1037/com0000443","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000443","url":null,"abstract":"Comparative cognition can make itself more relevant to those who care largely (or entirely) about humans by making itself less WEIRD and less focused on humans. That feels nonintuitive, I know, but psychology has long wanted to find itself at the table with the so-called \"hard\" sciences, and those sciences have already addressed their WEIRDness largely because they have not wanted humans to be the main character in their story. This cannot be the goal for psychological science to take humans out of it entirely, or should it be. However, there is a fertile middle ground between humans always being the central character and instead sometimes being a \"supporting\" character in proper comparative perspective or perhaps in some cases not being a character at all (e.g., for some evolutionary questions in which humans are too distantly related to be relevant to the study of certain phylogenetic or mechanistic questions of closely related species). This approach can facilitate greater appreciation for the need to study cognition across cultures and across species (as well as other potential sentient entities such as those emerging in artificial intelligence). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":"140 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147625015","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}

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No same-different concept or entropy stimulus control: Multiple-item array task performance in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and pigeons (Columba livia). 无相同-不同概念或熵刺激控制：虎皮鹦鹉和鸽子的多项目阵列任务表现。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1037/com0000416

Sota Watanabe

{"title":"No same-different concept or entropy stimulus control: Multiple-item array task performance in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and pigeons (Columba livia).","authors":"Sota Watanabe","doi":"10.1037/com0000416","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000416","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate same-different conceptualization in nonhuman animals, researchers have used the multiple-item array task (MIAT), which requires discriminating whether icons in an array are the same or different from one another. Although entropy-based explanations for MIAT performance have been influential, their validity is debatable. In Experiment 1, budgerigars and pigeons were trained to discriminate whether 16 icons were the same or different from one another. When the number of icons was reduced, the discrimination tendency of both species was correlated with the entropy value, replicating previous findings. Experiment 2 further supported this correlation by controlling for the number of icons and icon patterns. However, Experiment 3 revealed that when entropy was constant, the subjects judged different more frequently for arrays with more icons per pattern, which contradicts entropy-based predictions. Notably, the response patterns of the subjects in Experiment 3 were inconsistent with logical same-different judgments, suggesting that these animals perform the MIAT based on criteria distinct from those of same-different conceptualization. These findings challenge the validity of typical MIAT for examining same-different concepts in animals and indicate the need to develop more reliable alternative methods. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"11-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143733263","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}

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Beware of my face: The role of facial configuration in predator recognition. 小心我的脸：面部结构在捕食者识别中的作用。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-14 DOI: 10.1037/com0000417

Kateřina Motýlová, Ondřej Fišer, Petr Veselý, Michaela Syrová, Roman Fuchs

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Vocal signals produced by the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) in highly motivating contexts. 家猫（Felis silvestris catus）在高度激励的环境中发出的声音信号。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1037/com0000418

Naila Fukimoto, Natalia Albuquerque, Carine Savalli

{"title":"Vocal signals produced by the domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) in highly motivating contexts.","authors":"Naila Fukimoto, Natalia Albuquerque, Carine Savalli","doi":"10.1037/com0000418","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000418","url":null,"abstract":"Motivation influences essential behaviors for survival and well-being, driven by internal and external factors. By observing behaviors, we can understand motivational needs, decision-making processes, and preferences. Food acquisition is a survival motivator that covers a great part of daily activities, in contrast, play behavior shares a common basis with predation and social interactions. In the domestic cat, vocalizations, particularly the meow, are an acoustic signal expressing motivational and emotional states and are correlated to specific contexts, especially in cat-human interactions. This study investigated how contexts influenced meowing under two motivational conditions: feeding and play. Employing the synchronous citizen science approach, 48 guardians interacted with their cats as the researcher remotely recorded procedures involving presenting a feeder or toy and restricting access for 60 s. During the restriction periods, the cats could see and smell but not reach the stimulus. The condition influenced the frequency of meowing: they meowed significantly more in the feeding condition than in the play condition, suggesting a link between meowing frequency and the motivational context of eating, a crucial survival context. The food presentation likely influenced their motivation to vocalize. During feeding restriction, cats exhibited a significantly higher gazing at the guardian and gazing while meowing, suggesting the potential use of bimodal signals (visual and vocal) to enhance communication. In the play restriction condition, higher contact behaviors indicated a physical response to regain access, highlighting the play's social and motivational aspects. These findings help clarify contexts that motivate cats' vocalizations, aiding our understanding of their vocal communication. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"71-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144056060","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}

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Dogs' (Canis familiaris) behavior on a social learning puzzle task is impacted by sex and demonstration but not oxytocin. 狗（Canis familiaris）在社交学习难题任务中的行为受到性别和示范的影响，但不受催产素的影响。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1037/com0000421

Erin Colbert-White, Matthew Q Maus, Alexa Tullis

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Testing the waters: Attempts by wild killer whales (Orcinus orca) to provision people (Homo sapiens). 试水：野生虎鲸（Orcinus orca）试图为人类（智人）提供食物。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-30 DOI: 10.1037/com0000422

Jared R Towers, Ingrid N Visser, Vanessa Prigollini

{"title":"Testing the waters: Attempts by wild killer whales (Orcinus orca) to provision people (Homo sapiens).","authors":"Jared R Towers, Ingrid N Visser, Vanessa Prigollini","doi":"10.1037/com0000422","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000422","url":null,"abstract":"Altruistic behaviors such as prey sharing are prosocial acts that can instigate and perpetuate various forms of reciprocity. Subsequent relationship dynamics provide a foundation for the evolution of societal norms and associated encephalization in social taxa, like primates and dolphins. Some cultures within these families benefit from interactions with other mammal species but accounts of any wild animals attempting to provision humans are extremely rare. In this article, we present 34 cases of both sexes and all age classes of killer whales (Orcinus orca) offering prey and other items to people who were on boats (n = 21), in the water (n = 11), and on shore (n = 2) in four oceans. A total of 18 species were offered-six fishes, five mammals, three invertebrates, two birds, one reptile, and one seaweed. In almost every case the whales awaited a human response before subsequently reacting. The occurrence of these events suggests a limited cost to exploratory behaviors in some populations of this species. We suggest these apparently nonrandom cases may be representative of interspecific generalized altruism. This behavior may represent some of the first accounts of any wild predator intentionally using prey and other items to directly explore human behavior and thus may highlight the evolutionary convergence of intellect between highest order primates and dolphins. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"45-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144531190","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}

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Touching faces: The active role of infant capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) in their social development. 触摸脸：幼年卷尾猴（Sapajus libidinosus）在社会发展中的积极作用。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1037/com0000420

Beatriz Felício, Beatriz Codogno, Carlene Gomes, Rafael Albuquerque, Patrícia Izar

{"title":"Touching faces: The active role of infant capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) in their social development.","authors":"Beatriz Felício, Beatriz Codogno, Carlene Gomes, Rafael Albuquerque, Patrícia Izar","doi":"10.1037/com0000420","DOIUrl":"10.1037/com0000420","url":null,"abstract":"Touch has a significant impact on the development of infant primates, but it is still understudied. Little is reported, for example, about the effect of infants' touch on their environment and social development. In this study, we sought to fill this gap by investigating the touch of capuchin monkey (Sapajus libidinosus) infants on the faces of other individuals in the group. We followed eight wild infants (four females and four males) across their first 3 years of life and assessed whether this behavior is part of the social repertoire and whether it facilitates facial recognition. We coded all social events of the infants in 127.3 hr of video recorded weekly from birth until 36 months, through daily focal sampling. We recorded motor patterns of the behavior, the context, the partner touched, and the partners' response to each infant face touching. We found that touching was always associated with affiliative contexts. Infant face touching of other group members was associated with lipsmacking and grooming, consistently involving visual contact and exploration of the face by the infant's hand. In this species, face touching also occurred in response to engagement initiated by the touched individual, potentially signaling reciprocity in affiliative interactions and serving as a pleasurable gesture. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).","PeriodicalId":54861,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"34-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144095946","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}

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Changes in temporal cues elicit rhythmic discrimination in rats (Rattus norvegicus). 时间线索的变化引起了大鼠（褐家鼠）的节律性区分。

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Journal of Comparative Psychology Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1037/com0000412

Ferran Mayayo, Juan M Toro

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