Observation of behaviour, especially social behaviour, and experimental studies of learning
and brain function give us information about the complexity of concepts that animals have. In …

Primates undoubtedly have impressive abilities in perceiving, recognizing, manipulating,
and predicting other individuals, but only great apes seem to recognize the cognitive basis …

In this thought-provoking book, the acclaimed author of Our Inner Ape examines how
empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans. Are we our …

Face perception serves as the basis for much of human social exchange. Diverse
information can be extracted about an individual from a single glance at their face, including …

Self-face recognition is crucial for sense of identity and self-awareness. Finding self-face
recognition disorders mainly in neurological and psychiatric diseases suggests that …

Background Bystander affiliation (post-conflict affiliation from an uninvolved bystander to the
conflict victim) may represent an expression of empathy in which the bystander consoles the …

A critical companion of zoosemiotics is the first attempt to systematise the study of animal
communication and signification through its most important and/or problematic terms and …

Jeremy Rifkin schreibt die Geschichte der Zivilisation neu und entwirft die Vision einer
zukünftigen Ära. Der Schlüssel für unser Zusammenleben in Wirtschaft, Politik und …

The field of animal cognition has grown steadily for nearly four decades, but the primary
focus has centered on easily kept lab animals of varying cognitive capacity, including …

Self-recognition in front of a mirror is used as an indicator of self-awareness. Along with
humans, some chimpanzees and orangutans have been shown to be self-aware using the …