Chimpanzees,  Pan troglodytes , prefer individual over collaborative strategies towards goals

Bullinger, Anke F.; Melis, Alicia P.; Tomasello, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.08.008

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“…The chimpanzees were mainly interested in their own acquisition of food, but they understood when they needed a partner for success. Similarly, Bullinger, Melis, and Tomasello (2011a) and Rekers, Haun, and Tomasello (2011) found that when chimpanzees were given the choice to obtain food by collaborating with a partner or acting alone, they most often chose to act alone, whereas human children most often chose to collaborate.…”

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Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

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Tennie

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Current Anthropology

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Section: Coordinationmentioning

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Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

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Current Anthropology

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“…Would individuals be more likely to cooperate when such cooperation would entail competing against third parties? If Bullinger et al's [62] social versus solo option study had entailed not just cooperating with a partner but also simultaneously competing against another individual, would this have shifted chimpanzees' preference for choosing the social over the solo option? In such a case, and given that they also pick the social game when the payoff is higher than the solo game, one could even actually quantify how much individuals would be willing to pay to cooperate to compete.…”

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“…More specifically, studies with human children have shown that they prefer to play together with another individual even if succeeding in the game does not require collaboration with a second personthe joint activity seems to be rewarding to humans in its own right [61]. Bullinger et al [62] directly tested chimpanzees' motivation to cooperate with conspecifics by giving them a choice between entering one of two different rooms: one with a 'solo option', i.e. where they could pull in food with a rope by themselves; the other with a 'collaboration option', i.e.…”

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The psychology of primate cooperation and competition: a call for realigning research agendas

Schmelz

Call

2016

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Cooperation and competition are two key components of social life. Current research agendas investigating the psychological underpinnings of competition and cooperation in non-human primates are misaligned. The majority of work on competition has been done in the context of theory of mind and deception, while work on cooperation has mostly focused on collaboration and helping. The current impression that theory of mind is not necessarily implicated in cooperative activities and that helping could not be an integral part of competition might therefore be rather misleading. Furthermore, theory of mind research has mainly focused on cognitive aspects like the type of stimuli controlling responses, the nature of representation and how those representations are acquired, while collaboration and helping have focused primarily on motivational aspects like prosociality, common goals and a sense of justice and other-regarding concerns. We present the current state of these two bodies of research paying special attention to how they have developed and diverged over the years. We propose potential directions to realign the research agendas to investigate the psychological underpinnings of cooperation and competition in primates and other animals.

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“…Однако такого рода кооперация не предполагает видения каждым участником всей ситуации в целом и предварительного принятия каждым участником общей цели с разделением взаимодополняющих, или комплементарных, ролей, но представляет со-бой результат осуществления «множества одиноч-ных охот» [16]. Вместе с тем М. Томаселло придает особое значение совместному добыванию пищи, считая его «ключевой областью», в которой у людей в ходе эволюции появился ряд новых проксималь-ных механизмов -и когнитивных, и мотивацион-ных -для сотрудничества во всех других областях жизни современных обществ [32].…”

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Michael Tomasello versus Alexei Leontiev: A Dialogue in Time

Федорович

Sokolova

2018

Cultural-Historical Psychology

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The article provides an overview and critical analysis — from the point of view of activity theory of A.N. Leontiev’s scientific school and, more broadly, from the standpoint of cultural and activity psychology — of the latest comparative psychological studies of "joint activity" mechanisms in humans and in apes performed by Michael Tomasello and his colleagues and co-authors. These studies have convincingly proven the fundamental differences between cooperation in animals and collaboration in humans, which confirms many provisions of the psychological activity theory developed in the 1930s. Yet, the comparative analysis of the researches by Tomasello’s group and Leontiev’s scientific school provided in the article reveals that in spite of the seemingly similar results obtained in these studies, their interpretation varies considerably. Unlike M. Tomasello, A.N. Leontiev and his disciples (D.B. Elkonin, A.V. Zaporozhets and others) always claimed that "predisposition" of individuals towards collaboration emerged as a result of their labor activity which required coordinating various actions of individual participants who therefore fulfilled rather social than biological purposes.

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Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes , prefer individual over collaborative strategies towards goals

Cited by 65 publications

References 28 publications

Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

The psychology of primate cooperation and competition: a call for realigning research agendas

Michael Tomasello versus Alexei Leontiev: A Dialogue in Time

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