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Justice- and fairness-related behaviors in nonhuman primates

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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301194110

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comparative economics; decision-making; game theory; behavioral phylogeny; cooperation

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  1. National Science Foundation (NSF) [SES 0847351, SES 1123897]
  2. Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
  3. Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences [1123897, 0847351, 1123825] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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A distinctive feature across human societies is our interest in justice and fairness. People will sometimes invest in extremely costly behavior to achieve fair outcomes for themselves and others. Why do people care so much about justice? One way to address this is comparatively, exploring behaviors related to justice and fairness in other species. In this paper, I review work exploring responses to inequity, prosocial behavior, and other relevant behaviors in nonhuman primates in an effort to understand both the potential evolutionary function of these behaviors and the social and ecological reasons for the individual differences in behavior. I also consider how these behaviors relate to human behavior, particularly in the case of experimental studies using games derived from experimental economics to compare nonhuman primates' responses to those of humans in similar experimental conditions. These results emphasize the importance of a comparative approach to better understand the function and diversity of human behavior.

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