Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the social processes, influencing learning in
animals. Social learning can result in the social transmission of information through a …

To what extent do individuals assess the cognitive abilities of the opposite sex when
choosing a mate? With the exception of song learning in birds, the hypothesis that cognitive …

Many animals, including humans, acquire valuable skills and knowledge by copying others.
Scientists refer to this as social learning. It is one of the most exciting and rapidly developing …

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in
philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology. In …

Researchers with diverse interests in topics ranging from the formation of dominance
hierarchies and social intelligence to animal personalities have predicted specific, and often …

Emulation has been distinguished from imitation as a form of observational learning
because it focuses not on the model's actions but on the action's environmental results …

All four species of great apes and young human children (12–24 mo of age) were
administered an imitation task designed to distinguish between results learning (emulation) …

Multiple regional differences in tool use have been identified among wild chimpanzees, Pan
troglodytes, but the hypothesis that these represent traditions, transmitted through social …

There are numerous reports of novel learned behaviour patterns in animal populations, yet
the factors influencing the invention and spread of these innovations remain poorly …

Abstract Huber, Taborsky, and Rechberger (2001) reported an experiment in which the
efficiency with which captive keas opened a complex food container was increased by …