Comparative economics: how studying other primates helps us better understand the evolution of our own economic decision making

SF Brosnan, BJ Wilson - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The origins of evolutionary games are rooted in both economics and animal behaviour, but
economics has, until recently, focused primarily on humans. Although historically, specific …

Conserved and differing functions of the endocrine system across different social systems–oxytocin as a case study

MJ Sosnowski, SF Brosnan - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
A key goal of the field of endocrinology has been to understand the hormonal mechanisms
that drive social behavior and influence reactions to others, such as oxytocin. However, it …

A comparative perspective on the human sense of justice

SF Brosnan - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Humans are not the only species that cares about inequality; individuals in some other
species also respond negatively when a social partner receives a better outcome than they …

Testing three primate species' attentional biases toward preferred and unpreferred foods: Seeing red or high valued food?

GL Vale, JG Leinwand, PB Joshi - Journal of Comparative …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Animals navigate complex environments that present both hazards and essential resources.
The prioritization of perceptual information that is relevant to their next actions, such as …

No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms

O Ritov, CJ Völter, NJ Raihani… - Proceedings …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Disadvantageous inequity aversion (IA), a negative response to receiving less than others,
is a key building block of the human sense of fairness. While some theorize that IA is shared …

Are nonhuman animals averse to inequity? A meta-analysis [Pre-Print]

O Ritov, C Völter, N Raihani, J Engelmann - 2023 - osf.io
Inequity aversion, a negative response to receiving less (or more) than others, is a key
building block of the human sense of fairness. While some theorize that inequity aversion is …