Evolutionary foundations of knowledge and belief attribution in nonhuman primates

Fumihiro Kano; Josep Call

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Evolutionary foundations of knowledge and belief attribution in nonhuman primates

Fumihiro Kano
, Josep Call

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Recent findings from anticipatory-looking false-belief tests have shown that nonhuman great apes and macaques anticipate that an agent will go to the location where the agent falsely believed an object to be. Phillips et al.'s claim that nonhuman primates attribute knowledge but not belief should thus be reconsidered. We propose that both knowledge and belief attributions are evolutionary old.

Original language	English
Article number	e158
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	44
Early online date	19 Nov 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20001521
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2021

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Josep Call: Constructing Social Minds: Coordination, Communication and Cultural Transmission
Call, J. (PI)
European Research Council
1/01/15 → 31/12/20
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