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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue 1, Pages 60-69Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20619
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reconciliation; third-party affiliation; relationship quality; post-conflict anxiety; Papio hamadryas hamadryas
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- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) [PB98-0773, BS02002-00161]
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In social groups, agonistic conflicts can have different negative consequences. Several post-conflict interactions have been suggested as post-conflict management behaviors to mitigate those negative effects. In this study, we investigated the function of two post-conflict behaviors-reconciliation and aggressor-initiated third-party affiliation-on the aggressor's levels of post-conflict anxiety and aggression in a large colony of hamadryas baboons. We also examined variation in the aggressor's levels of post-conflict anxiety as a function of relationship quality between the opponents as predicted by the Integrated Hypothesis. We found that after conflicts hamadryas baboon aggressors showed increased rates of anxiety-related behaviors and that they were also more likely to be involved in renewed aggressive interactions. Although both reconciliation and aggressor-initiated third-party affiliation reduced the probability of receiving post-conflict aggression, only reconciliation reduced the rates of anxiety-related behaviors, suggesting that the aggressors' post-conflict anxiety might be owing mainly to the damage that the conflict causes to their relationship with the victim. Furthermore, aggressor's rates of post-conflict anxiety were higher after conflicts with individuals with whom they had a high-quality relationship, supporting the idea that levels of post-conflict anxiety mediate the occurrence of reconciliation depending on the quality of the relationship with former opponent as predicted by the Integrated Hypothesis. Am. J. Primatol. 71:60-69, 2009. (C) 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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