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Chimpanzees’ bystander reactions to infanticide

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2015
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Rudolf von Rohr, C., van Schaik, C. P., Kissling, A., & Burkart, J. M. (2015). Chimpanzees’ bystander reactions to infanticide. Human Nature, 26(2), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-015-9228-5

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Social norms-generalized expectations about how others should behave in a given context-implicitly guide human social life. However, their existence becomes explicit when they are violated because norm violations provoke negative reactions, even from personally uninvolved bystanders. To explore the evolutionary origin of human social norms, we presented chimpanzees with videos depicting a putative norm violation: unfamiliar conspecifics engaging in infanticidal attacks on an infant chimpanzee. The chimpanzees looked far longer at infa

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  • Rudolf von Rohr, Claudia
  • van Schaik, Carel P
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  • Kissling, Alexandra
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  • Burkart, Judith M
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26

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2

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143

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160

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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Expectancy violation, Social expectations, Moral behavior, Evolutionary preconditions of morality, Social norms

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English

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2015

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2015-08-13

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1045-6767

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Rudolf von Rohr, C., van Schaik, C. P., Kissling, A., & Burkart, J. M. (2015). Chimpanzees’ bystander reactions to infanticide. Human Nature, 26(2), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-015-9228-5

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