A central premise of the science of comparative affect is that we can best learn about the
causes and consequences of affect by comparing affective phenomena across a variety of …

Investigations into cooperative partner choice should consider both potential and realised
partners, allowing for the comparison of traits across all those available. Male bottlenose …

Behavioral coordination is involved in many forms of primate interactions. Co-representation
is the simultaneous mental representation of one's own and the partner's task and actions. It …

Shared intentions supporting cooperation and other social practices are often used to
describe human social life but not the social lives of nonhuman animals. This difference in …

Despite many observations of cooperation in nature, laboratory studies often fail to find
careful coordination between individuals who are solving a cooperative task. Further …

Encultured individuals see the behavioral rules of cultural systems of moral norms as
objective. In addition to prescriptive regulation of behavior, moral norms provide templates …

Recruitment is a process by which animals can initiate collective movements: the action of
an individual prompts conspecifics to follow. Although it has been hypothesized that animals …

The concept of cooperation has been explored and defined by various scholars across
disciplines, revealing the complexity and nuanced nature of this fundamental behaviour. The …

Shared intentions supporting cooperation and other social practices are often used to
describe human social life but not the social lives of nonhuman animals. This difference in …

Cooperation is a key component of social life. Although it is common among the animal
kingdom, cooperative interactions seem an evolutionary puzzle as they involve behaviours …