Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs
Duke University · Kyoto University · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Humans operate with a "theory of mind" with which they are able to understand that others' actions are driven not by reality but by beliefs about reality, even when those beliefs are false. Although great apes share with humans many social-cognitive skills, they have repeatedly failed experimental tests of such false-belief understanding. We use an anticipatory looking test (originally developed for human infants) to show that three species of great apes reliably look in anticipation of an agent acting on a location where he falsely believes an object to be, even though the apes themselves know that the object is no longer there. Our results suggest that great apes also operate, at least on an implicit level,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 117.91
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- 100%
- References
- 18
Authors
5- CKChristopher KrupenyeCorresponding
Duke University
- FKFumihiro KanoCorresponding
Kyoto University, Japan Wildlife Research Center
- SHSatoshi Hirata
Kyoto University, Japan Wildlife Research Center
- JCJosep Call
University of St Andrews, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- MTMichael Tomasello
Duke University, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Topics & keywords
- Anticipation (artificial intelligence)
- Object (grammar)
- Psychology
- Cognition
- False belief
- Theory of mind
- Cognitive psychology
- Bonobo
- Quality Education