Face-to-face opening phase in Japanese macaques’ social play enhances and sustains participants’ engagement in subsequent play interaction

Social play as joint action: A framework to study the evolution of shared intentionality as an interactional achievement

(2017) Raphaela Heesen et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Metacommunication in social play: the meaning of aggression-like elements is modified by play face in Hanuman langurs (Semnopithecus entellus)

(2016) Marek Špinka et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Investigating the function of play bows in adult pet dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)

(2016) Sarah-Elizabeth Byosiere et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Mimic me while playing! Social tolerance and rapid facial mimicry in macaques (Macaca tonkeana and Macaca fuscata).

(2016) Chiara Scopa et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Neonatal face-to-face interactions promote later social behaviour in infant rhesus monkeys

(2016) Amanda M. Dettmer et al.   Nature Communications

BORIS: a free, versatile open-source event-logging software for video/audio coding and live observations

(2016) Olivier Friard et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Play-solicitation gestures in chimpanzees in the wild: flexible adjustment to social circumstances and individual matrices

(2016) Marlen Fröhlich et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Are 50-kHz calls used as play signals in the playful interactions of rats? II. Evidence from the effects of devocalization

(2015) Theresa M. Kisko et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Rough-and-tumble play as a window on animal communication

(2015) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Interactional synchrony in chimpanzees: Examination through a finger-tapping experiment

(2015) Lira Yu et al.   Scientific Reports

Rapid mimicry and emotional contagion in domestic dogs

(2015) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   Royal Society Open Science

In Play We Trust. Rapid Facial Mimicry Predicts the Duration of Playful Interactions in Geladas

(2013) Giada Mancini et al.   PLoS One

Animal play and animal welfare

(2011) Suzanne D.E. Held et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Playing with the face: Playful facial “chattering” and signal modulation in a monkey species (Theropithecus gelada).

(2011) Elisabetta Palagi et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

The weirdest people in the world?

(2010) Joseph Henrich et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Individual- and Sex-related Strategies of Wrestling Play in Captive Squirrel Monkeys

(2010) Maxeen Biben   ETHOLOGY

“Laughter” and “Smile” in Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus)

(2010) Signe Preuschoft   ETHOLOGY

Sharing the motivation to play: the use of signals in adult bonobos

(2007) E. Palagi   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR