Studying primate cognition in a social setting to improve validity and welfare: a literature review highlighting successful approaches

Motivational Shifts in Aging Monkeys and the Origins of Social Selectivity

(2016) Laura Almeling et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

How chimpanzees cooperate in a competitive world

(2016) Malini Suchak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Behavioral research as physical enrichment for captive chimpanzees

(2016) Lydia M. Hopper et al.   ZOO BIOLOGY

Personality influences responses to inequity and contrast in chimpanzees

(2015) Sarah F. Brosnan et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cooperation in wild Barbary macaques: factors affecting free partner choice

(2015) Sandra Molesti et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The importance of witnessed agency in chimpanzee social learning of tool use

(2015) Lydia M. Hopper et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Chimpanzees copy dominant and knowledgeable individuals: implications for cultural diversity

(2015) Rachel Kendal et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Common marmosets show social plasticity and group-level similarity in personality

(2015) Sonja E. Koski et al.   Scientific Reports

A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2014) Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Testing problem-solving capacities: differences between individual testing and social group setting

(2014) Anastasia Krasheninnikova et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Wild vervet monkeys copy alternative methods for opening an artificial fruit

(2014) Erica van de Waal et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

The interplay between individual, social, and environmental influences on chimpanzee food choices

(2014) Emma Finestone et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Video demonstrations seed alternative problem-solving techniques in wild common marmosets

(2014) T. Gunhold et al.   Biology Letters

Population-level variability in the social climates of four chimpanzee societies

(2014) Katherine A. Cronin et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Problem Solving in the Presence of Others: How Rank and Relationship Quality Impact Resource Acquisition in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2014) Katherine A. Cronin et al.   PLoS One

Task Design Influences Prosociality in Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

(2014) Bailey R. House et al.   PLoS One

Cultural evolution of systematically structured behaviour in a non-human primate

(2014) N. Claidiere et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolutionary origin of human hyper-cooperation

(2014) J. M. Burkart et al.   Nature Communications

Personality predicts the propensity for social learning in a wild primate

(2014) Alecia J. Carter et al.   PeerJ

Influence of personality, age, sex, and estrous state on chimpanzee problem-solving success

(2013) Lydia M. Hopper et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Contribution of working memory processes to relational matching-to-sample performance in baboons (Papio papio).

(2013) Anaïs Maugard et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Analogical reasoning in baboons (Papio papio): Flexible reencoding of the source relation depending on the target relation

(2013) Joël Fagot et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Personality of Wild Male Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra)

(2013) Christof Neumann et al.   PLoS One

The Impact of Cognitive Testing on the Welfare of Group Housed Primates

(2013) Jamie Whitehouse et al.   PLoS One

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Flexibly Adjust Their Behaviour in Order to Maximize Payoffs, Not to Conform to Majorities

(2013) Edwin J. C. Van Leeuwen et al.   PLoS One

Presence of a pair-mate regulates the behavioral and physiological effects of opioid manipulation in the monogamous titi monkey (Callicebus cupreus)

(2013) Benjamin J. Ragen et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Potent Social Learning and Conformity Shape a Wild Primate's Foraging Decisions

(2013) E. van de Waal et al.   SCIENCE

Dissecting the mechanisms of squirrel monkey (Saimiri boliviensis) social learning

(2013) LM Hopper et al.   PeerJ

How not to measure boldness: novel object and antipredator responses are not the same in wild baboons

(2012) Alecia J. Carter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Prosocial behaviour in animals: the influence of social relationships, communication and rewards

(2012) Katherine A. Cronin   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Social learning and spread of alternative means of opening an artificial fruit in four groups of vervet monkeys

(2012) Erica van de Waal et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Automated cognitive testing of monkeys in social groups yields results comparable to individual laboratory-based testing

(2012) Regina Paxton Gazes et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Evidence for Cultural Differences between Neighboring Chimpanzee Communities

(2012) Lydia V. Luncz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rotational displacement skills in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).

(2012) Kelly D. Hughes et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY

How chimpanzees solve collective action problems

(2012) A.-C. Schneider et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sex ratio affects sex-specific innovation and learning in captive ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata and Varecia rubra)

(2011) Lewis G. Dean et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Wild Chimpanzees Inform Ignorant Group Members of Danger

(2011) Catherine Crockford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A comparative study of working memory: Immediate serial spatial recall in baboons (Papio papio) and humans

(2011) Joël Fagot et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Physiological and behavioral adaptation to relocation stress in differentially reared rhesus monkeys: Hair cortisol as a biomarker for anxiety-related responses

(2011) Amanda M. Dettmer et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Investigating the impact of observation errors on the statistical performance of network-based diffusion analysis

(2010) M. Franz et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Evidence for social learning in wild lemurs (Lemur catta)

(2010) R. L. Kendal et al.   LEARNING & BEHAVIOR

Network-based diffusion analysis: a new method for detecting social learning

(2009) M. Franz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES