Humans exhibit a suite of biases when making economic decisions. We review recent
research on the origins of human decision making by examining whether similar choice …

Primate Cognition is the study of cognitive processes, which represent internal mental
processes involved in discriminations, decisions, and behaviors of humans and other …

The philosophy of animal minds addresses profound questions about the nature of mind and
the relationships between humans and other animals. In this fully revised and updated …

Is the sense of fairness uniquely human? Human reactions to reward division are often
studied by means of the ultimatum game, in which both partners need to agree on a …

The ability to identify an appropriate sequence of actions or to consider alternative possible
action sequences might be particularly useful during problem solving in the physical …

As humans, several non-human animal species avoid risk, defined as “variability in rate of
gain”. However, non-human primate studies revealed a more complicated picture, with …

The human mind is built for approximations. When considering the value of a large
aggregate of different items, for example, we typically do not summate the many individual …

Prosociality can be defined as any behaviour performed to alleviate the needs of others or to
improve their welfare. Prosociality has probably played an essential role in the evolution of …

While it is well established that humans respond to inequity, it remains unclear the extent to
which this behavior occurs in our non-human primate relatives. By comparing a variety of …

Capuchin monkeys have been tested for the capacity to delay gratification for accumulating
rewards in recent studies and have exhibited variable results. Meanwhile, chimpanzees …