Social, Machiavellian and cultural cognition: a golden age of discovery in comparative and evolutionary psychology

Andrew Whiten

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Social, Machiavellian and cultural cognition: a golden age of discovery in comparative and evolutionary psychology

Andrew Whiten

School of Psychology and Neuroscience

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Abstract

The years since the publication of Machiavellian Intelligence have witnessed a Golden Age in discoveries concerning social cognition in human and non-human primates and many other animal taxa too. Here I briefly dissect some of the variants of the social intelligence hypotheses that have evolved in this time and offer a selective overview of scientific discoveries in this field, particularly in primates, over the last 30 years.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	437-441
Journal	Journal of Comparative Psychology
Volume	132
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000135
Publication status	Published - Nov 2018

Keywords

Animal intelligence
Social cognition
Social intelligence
Machiavellian intelligence
Cultural intelligence hypothesis

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Social, Machiavellian and cultural cognition: a golden age of discovery in comparative and evolutionary psychology

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