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Author Clutton-Brock, T.H.; Parker, G.A.
Title Punishment in animal societies Type Journal Article
Year 1995 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Nature
Volume 373 Issue 6511 Pages 209-216
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Abstract Although positive reciprocity (reciprocal altruism) has been a focus of interest in evolutionary biology, negative reciprocity (retaliatory infliction of fitness reduction) has been largely ignored. In social animals, retaliatory aggression is common, individuals often punish other group members that infringe their interests, and punishment can cause subordinates to desist from behaviour likely to reduce the fitness of dominant animals. Punishing strategies are used to establish and maintain dominance relationships, to discourage parasites and cheats, to discipline offspring or prospective sexual partners and to maintain cooperative behaviour.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4838
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Author Whitehead, H.; Dufault, S.
Title Techniques for Analyzing Vertebrate Social Structure Using Identified Individuals: Review and Recommendations Type Book Chapter
Year 1999 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Volume 28 Issue Pages 33-74
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Publisher Academic Press Place of Publication Editor Peter J.B. Slater, J.S.R., Charles T. Snowden and Timothy J. Roper
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4987
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Author Watts, D.J.; Strogatz, S.H.
Title Collective dynamics of /`small-world/' networks Type Journal Article
Year 1998 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Nature
Volume 393 Issue 6684 Pages 440-442
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Abstract Networks of coupled dynamical systems have been used to model biological oscillators Josephson junction arrays excitable media, neural networks spatial games11, genetic control networks12 and many other self-organizing systems. Ordinarily, the connection topology is assumed to be either completely regular or completely random. But many biological, technological and social networks lie somewhere between these two extremes. Here we explore simple models of networks that can be tuned through this middle ground: regular networks 'rewired' to introduce increasing amounts of disorder. We find that these systems can be highly clustered, like regular lattices, yet have small characteristic path lengths, like random graphs. We call them 'small-world' networks, by analogy with the small-world phenomenon (popularly known as six degrees of separation). The neural network of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the power grid of the western United States, and the collaboration graph of film actors are shown to be small-world networks. Models of dynamical systems with small-world coupling display enhanced signal-propagation speed, computational power, and synchronizability. In particular, infectious diseases spread more easily in small-world networks than in regular lattices.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4989
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Author Davis, M. H.
Title Empathy: A Social Psychological Approach Type Book Whole
Year 1996 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 272
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Empathy has long been a topic of interest to psychologists, but it has been studied in a sometimes bewildering number of ways. In this volume, Mark Davis offers a thorough, evenhanded review of contemporary empathy research, especially work that has been carried out by social and personality psychologists.Davis’ approach is explicitly multidimensional. He draws careful distinctions between situational and dispositional “antecedents” of empathy, cognitive and noncognitive “internal processes,” affective and nonaffective “intrapersonal outcomes,” and the “interpersonal behaviora

l outcomes” that follow. Davis presents a novel organizational model to help classify and interpret previous findings. This book will be of value in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on altruism, helping, nad moral development.

About the Author

Mark H. Davis is associate professor of psychology at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Publisher Westview Press Place of Publication Boulder, CO Editor
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5017
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Author Prins, H.H.
Title Ecology and Behaviour of the African Buffalo: Social Inequality and Decision Making Type Book Whole
Year 1995 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract What are the benefits that animals gain from living in a social group? This question has been the primary focus of the author's ecological interest. After many years of original and innovative research on the African buffalo, particularly at Lake Manyara in northern Tanzania, Herbert Prins has now summarized the results of much of this widely-respected work in this fascinating book. While advantages in reduction of the risks of predation or in increased efficiency of foraging on certain types of resources are now widely recognized, until now there has been less attention paid to the idea of the animals themselves as `information centres' and the extent to which the individual may be able to make use of information gathered by conspecifics, adjusting its own behaviour in response. Such a case-study has wide implications for research on social structure and organization in other species, and these are explored within the book. However, it is not a book aimed simply at the academic researcher, zoologist and behavioural ecologist; since it is written in a readable and accessible style, the book will also be enjoyed by wildlife enthusiasts, interested naturalists, wildlife biologists and wildlife managers.
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5142
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Author Spengler,A. Engel, H.
Title Human interaction with a gorilla family Type Manuscript
Year 2009 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5304
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Author Jerison, H. J.
Title Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence. Type Book Whole
Year 1973 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher Academic Press Place of Publication Riverport Editor
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5462
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Author Apicella, C.L.; Marlowe, F.W.; Fowler, J.H.; Christakis, N.A.
Title Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers Type Journal Article
Year 2012 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Nature
Volume 481 Issue 7382 Pages 497-501
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5577
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Author Cochet, H.; Byrne, R.W.
Title Evolutionary origins of human handedness: evaluating contrasting hypotheses Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Animal Cognition
Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 531-542
Keywords Hand preference; Hemispheric specialization; Communicative gestures; Evolution of language; Nonhuman primates; Human children
Abstract Variation in methods and measures, resulting in past dispute over the existence of population handedness in nonhuman great apes, has impeded progress into the origins of human right-handedness and how it relates to the human hallmark of language. Pooling evidence from behavioral studies, neuroimaging and neuroanatomy, we evaluate data on manual and cerebral laterality in humans and other apes engaged in a range of manipulative tasks and in gestural communication. A simplistic human/animal partition is no longer tenable, and we review four (nonexclusive) possible drivers for the origin of population-level right-handedness: skilled manipulative activity, as in tool use; communicative gestures; organizational complexity of action, in particular hierarchical structure; and the role of intentionality in goal-directed action. Fully testing these hypotheses will require developmental and evolutionary evidence as well as modern neuroimaging data.
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Publisher Springer-Verlag Place of Publication Editor
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Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 5691
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Author Morton, F.B.; Lee, P.C.; Buchanan-Smith, H.M.
Title Taking personality selection bias seriously in animal cognition research: a case study in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication (up) Abbreviated Journal Animal Cognition
Volume 16 Issue 4 Pages 677-684
Keywords Platyrrhines; Temperament; Cognitive experiment; Selection bias; Associative learning; Training
Abstract In most experimental work on animal cognition, researchers attempt to control for multiple interacting variables by training subjects prior to testing, allowing subjects to participate voluntarily, and providing subjects with food rewards. However, do such methods encourage selection bias from subjects’ personalities? In this study, we trained eighteen zoo-housed capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) for two experiments, under conditions of positive reinforcement (i.e. food rewards) and free-choice participation. Using a combination of behavioral and rater-based methods, we identified and validated five personality dimensions in these capuchins (Assertiveness, Openness, Neuroticism, Sociability, and Attentiveness). Scores on Openness were positively related to individual differences in monkey task participation, reflecting previous work showing that such individuals are often more active, curious, and willing to engage in testing. We also found a negative relationship between scores on Assertiveness and performance on tasks, which may reflect the trade-offs between speed and accuracy in these animals’ decision-making. Highly Assertive individuals (the most sociable within monkey groups) may also prioritize social interactions over engaging in research. Lastly, monkeys that consistently participated and performed well on both tasks showed significantly higher Openness and lower Assertiveness compared to others, mirroring relationships found between personality, participation, and performance among all participants. Participation and performance during training was clearly biased toward individuals with particular personalities (i.e. high Openness, low Assertiveness). Results are discussed in light of the need for careful interpretation of comparative data on animal cognition and the need for researchers to take personality selection bias more seriously.

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