title: Social manipulation in nonhuman primates: Cognitive and motivational determinants.
abstract: Social interactions are the result of individuals' cooperative and competitive tendencies expressed over an extended period of time. Although social manipulation, i.e., using another individual to achieve one's own goals, is a crucial aspect of social interactions, there has been no comprehensive attempt to differentiate its various types and to map its cognitive and motivational determinants. For this purpose, we survey in this article the experimental literature on social interactions in nonhuman primates. We take social manipulation, illustrated by a case study with orangutans (Pongo abelii), as our starting point and move in two directions. First, we will focus on a flexibility/sociality axis that includes technical problem solving, social tool-use and communication. Second, we will focus on a motivational/prosociality axis that includes exploitation, cooperation, and helping. Combined, the two axes offer a way to capture a broad range of social interactions performed by human and nonhuman primates.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK; Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: christoph.voelter@gmail.com.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Völter
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rossano
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK; Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Call
mesh_terms: D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology*; D057079:Pongo / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D011323:Primates / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011340:Problem Solving / Q000502:physiology*; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: Coercion; Communication; Cooperation; Exploitation; Helping; Inequity aversion; Manipulation; Motivation; Primate cognition; Problem solving; Prosociality; Reciprocity; Social tool use