Various types of long-term stable relationships that individuals uphold, including
cooperation and competition between group members, define social complexity in …

The biological and psychological basis of pet therapy/animal-assisted therapy and what this
means for practice" A comprehensive, scientific foundation for human-animal …

Despite decades of research, some of the most basic issues concerning the extraordinarily
complex brains and behavior of birds and mammals, such as the factors responsible for the …

Die uralte Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Tier hat in jüngerer Zeit durch den Einsatz von
Tieren in Therapie und Pädagogik neues Interesse geweckt. Tiergestützte Interventionen …

Human children show unique cognitive skills for dealing with the social world but their
cognitive performance is paralleled by great apes in many tasks dealing with the physical …

The quality of a social relationship represents the history of past social interactions between
two individuals, from which the nature and outcome of future interactions can be predicted …

Despite decades of research, much uncertainty remains regarding the selection pressures
responsible for brain size variation. Whilst the influential social brain hypothesis once …

Simply observing other individuals interacting has been shown to affect subsequent
behaviour and also hormones in 'bystander'individuals. However, immediate physiological …

The social intelligence hypothesis, originally developed for primates to explain their high
intelligence and large relative brain size, assumes that challenges posed by social life in …

Cues to individuality, and the corresponding capacity for individual-level discrimination, can
allow individually specific investment by conspecifics into offspring, partners, neighbors or …