Dogs and monkeys prefer good people

• Autores: Sam Wong
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3113, 2017, pág. 16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Both pet dogs and monkeys show a preference for people who help others, and the results might explain the origins of people's sense of morality. By the age of 1, humans already start to judge others by how they interact. This has led to suggestions that children have a kind of innate morality that predates their being taught how to behave. Comparative psychologist James Anderson at Kyoto University in Japan and his colleagues wondered whether other species make social evaluations in a similar way. Anderson thinks the results show that monkeys and dogs make social evaluations in a similar way to human infants. "If somebody is behaving antisocially, they probably end up with some sort of emotional reaction to it," he says.