Publications

Horner V, Carter JD, Suchak M, de Waal FBM. 2011. Spontaneous prosocial choice by chimpanzees. PNAS. doi/10.1073/pnas.1111088108.

de Waal, F.B.M. and Suchak, M. (2010). Prosocial primates: Selfish and unselfish motivations. Phil. Trans. B 365:2711-2722.

Brosnan, S. F., Houser, D., Leimgruber, K., Xiao, E., Chen, T., de Waal, F. B. M. (2010). Competing demands of prosociality and equity in monkeys. Evolution and Human Behavior 31: 279-288.

Brosnan, S. F., and de Waal, F. B. M. (2009). Cebus apella tolerate intermittent unreliability in human experimenters. International Journal of Primatoology. DOI 10.1007/s10764-009-9366-x

van Wolkenten, M., Brosnana, S. F. & de Waal, F. B. M. (2007). Inequity responses of monkeys modified by effort. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 104: 18855-18859.

Brosnan, S. F. & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Partial support from a non-replication: A reply to Roma et al.. J. Comp. Psychol. 120: 74-75.

Brosnan, S. F. & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). A cross-species perspective on the selfishness axiom: Open peer commentary on Henrich et al.. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28: 818.

Brosnan, S. F., Freeman, C. & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Partner's behavior, not reward distribution, determines success in an unequal cooperative task in capuchin monkeys. American Journal of Primatology 68: 713-724.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Joint ventures require joint pay-offs: Fairness among primates. Social Research 73: 349-364.

Brosnan, S. F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Responses to a simple barter task in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes. Primates 46: 173-182.

Brosnan, S. F., Schiff, H., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Tolerance for inequity increases with social closeness in chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272: 253-258.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). How animals do business. Scientific American 292 (4): 72-79.

Brosnan S. F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2004). A concept of value during experimental exchange in brown capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella. Folia primatologica 75: 317-330.

Brosnan, S. F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2004). Socially learned preferences for differentially rewarded tokens in the brown capuchin monkey (Cebus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology 118: 133-139.

Brosnan, S. F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2003). Monkeys reject unequal pay. Nature 425: 297-299.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Berger, M. L. (2000). Payment for labour in monkeys. Nature 404: 563-563.

 

Dindo M, Leimgruber KL, Ahmed R, Whiten A, de Waal FBM. 2011. Observer choices during experimental foraging tasks in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). American Journal of Primatology(73):1-8.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Ferrari, P. F. (2010). Towards a bottom-up perspective on animal and human cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14: 201-207.

Pokorny, J. and de Waal, F. (2009). Monkeys recognize the faces of group mates
in photographs. PNAS. doi: 10.1073pnas.0912174106

Pokorny, J.J. and de Waal, F.B.M. (2009). Face recognition in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology 123: 151-160.

de Waal, F. and Pokorny, L. (2008). Faces and Behinds: Chimpanzee Sex Perception. Adv. Sci. Lett. 1: 99-103.

Plotnik, J.M., de Waal, F.B.M., & Reiss, D. (2006). Self recognition in an Asian elephant. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). A century of getting to know the chimpanzee. Nature 437: 56-59.

de Waal, F. B. M., Dindo, M., Freeman, C. A., & Hall, M. (2005). The monkey in the mirror: Hardly a stranger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 11140-11147.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2004). Evolutionary ethics, aggression, and violence: Lessons from primate research. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 32: 18-23.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2003). Social roles, alternative strategies, personalities, and other sources of individual variation in monkeys and apes. J. Research Personality. 36: 541-542.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2002). Evolutionary psychology: the wheat and the chaff. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11: 187-191.

 

Flack, J. A. & de Waal, F. B. M. (2007). Context modulates signal meaning in primate communication. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 104: 1581-1586.

Pollick, A.S. & de Waal, F.B.M.. (2007). Ape gestures and language evolution. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 104: 8184-9189.

Parr, L. A., Cohen, M., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). The influence of social context on the use of blended and graded facial displays in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). International Journal of Primatology 26: 73-104.

Pollick, A. S., Gouzoules, H., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Audience effects on food calls in captive brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Animal Behaviour 70: 1273-1281.

Flack, J. C., Jeannotte, L. A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2004). Play signaling and the perception of social rules by juvenile chimpanzees. Journal of Comparative Psychology 118: 149-159.

Vokey, J. R., Rendall, D., Tangen, J. M., Parr, L. A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2004). Visual kin recognition and family resemblance in chimpanzees. Journal of Comparative Psychology 118: 194-199.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2003). Darwin's legacy and the study of primate visual communication. In: Emotions Inside Out: 130 Years after Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, P. Ekman, J. J. Campos, R. J. Davidson, & F. B. M. de Waal (Eds.), pp. 7-31. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1000.

Plotnik, J., Nelson, P. A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2003). Visual field information in the face perception of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1000: 94-98.

Weaver, A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2002). An index of relationship quality based on attachment theory. J. Comp. Psychol. 116: 93-106.

Parr, L. A., Winslow, J. T., Hopkins, W. D., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2000) Recognizing facial cues: individual discrimination by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). J. Comp. Psychol. 114: 47-60.

Parr, L. A. & de Waal, F. B. M. (1999). Visual kin recognition in chimpanzees. Nature. 399: 647-648.

 

Romero, T. and de Waal F.B.M. (2010). Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Consolation:
Third-Party Identity as a Window on Possible Function. JCP Vol. 124, No. 3, 278–286.

Romero, T., Castellanos, MA, de Waal, FBM, 2010. Consolation as possible expression of sympathetic concern among chimpanzees. PNAS. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1006991107

Flack, J. C., Girvan, M., de Waal, F. B. M. & Krakauer, D. C. (2006). Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates. Nature 439: 426-429.

van Wolkenten, M. L., Davis, J. M., Gong, M. L.& de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Coping with acute crowding by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Int. J. Primatology 27: 1241-1256.

Flack, J. C., de Waal, F. B. M, & Krakauer, D. C. (2005). Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated species. American Naturalist 165: E126-E139.

Flack, J. C., Krakauer, D. C., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Robustness mechanisms in primate societies: A perturbation study. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 272: 1091-1099.

Weaver, A. C., Richardson, R., Worlein, J., de Waal, F. B. M., & Laudenslager, M. (2004). Response to social challenge in young bonnet (Macaca radiata) and pigtail (M. nemestrina) macaques is related to early maternal experiences. American J. Primatol. 62: 243-259.

Weaver, A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2003). The mother-offpsring relationship as a template in social development: reconciliation in brown capuchins (Cebus apella). J. Comp. Psychol. 117: 101-110.

Call, J., Aureli, F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2002). Postconflict third-party affiliation in stumptailed macaques. Animal Behavior 63: 209-216.

Preuschoft, S., Wang, W., Aureli, F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2002). Reconciliation in captive chimpanzees: a reevaluation with controlled methods. International Journal of Primatology 23: 29-50.

Cooper, M. A., Bernstein, I. S., Fragaszy, D. M., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2001). Integration of new males into four social groups of tufted capuchins (Cebus apella). International Journal of Primatology 22: 663-683.

Seres, M., Aureli, F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2001). Successful formation of a large chimpanzee group out of two preexisting subgroups. Zoo Biology 20: 501-515.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2000). Primates - a natural heritage of conflict resolution. Science 289: 586-590.

de Waal, F. B. M., Aureli, F., & Judge, P. G. (2000). Coping with crowding. Scientific American 282: 76-81.

 

Campbell MW, de Waal FBM, 2011 Ingroup-Outgroup Bias in Contagious Yawning by Chimpanzees Supports Link to Empathy. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18283. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018283

Campbell, M. W., Carter, J. D., Proctor, D., Eisenberg, M. L., de Waal, F. B. M. (2009). Computer animations stimulate contagious yawning in chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1087

de Waal, F., Leimgruber, K. and Greenberg, A. (2008). Giving is self-rewarding for monkeys. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 105: 13685-13689.

de Waal, F.B.M. (2008). Putting the altruism back in altruism: The evolution of empathy. Ann. Rev. Psychol. 59:279–300

de Waal, F.B.M. (2007). With a little help from a friend. PLoS Biol 5(7): e190.
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050190

Dindo, M., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Partner effects on food consumption in brown capuchin monkeys. Am. J. Primatol. 69: 1-9.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2005, Oct 8). The empathic ape. New Scientist: 52-54.

Brosnan, S. F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2002). A proximate perspective on reciprocal altruism. Human Nature 13: 129-152.

Preston, S. D., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2002). Empathy: it's ultimate and proximate bases. Behav. Brain Sci. 25: 1-71.

Flack, J. C., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2000). Any animal whatever: Darwinian building blocks of morality in monkeys and apes. Journal of Consciousness Studies 7: 1-29.

 

Horner V, Proctor D, Bonnie KE, Whiten A, de Waal FBM, 2010 Prestige Affects Cultural Learning in Chimpanzees. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10625. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010625

Dindo, M., Thierry, B., de Waal, F., Whiten, A. (2010). Conditional Copying Fidelity in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella). Journ. Comp. Psych., 124:1 29-37.

Dindo, M., Whiten, A. and de Waal, F. (2009). In-Group Conformity Sustains Different Foraging Traditions in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella). PLoS One, 4:11 e7858.

Dindo, M., Whiten, A. and de Waal, F.B.M. (2009).Social Facilitation of Exploratory Foraging Behavior in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella). Am. Journ. Prim. 71: 419-426.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Bonnie, K. E. (2009). In tune with others: The social side of primate culture. In: The Question of Animal Culture, K. Laland & G. Galef (Eds.), pp. 19-39. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bonnie, K. E. & de Waal, F.B.M. (2007). Copying without rewards: Socially influenced foraging decisions among brown capuchin monkeys. Animal Cognition 10, 283-292.

Bonnie, K. E., Horner, V., Whiten, A. & de Waal, F.B.M. (2007). Spread of arbitrary conventions among chimpanzees: a controlled experiment. Proc. Royal Soc. B, 274: 367-372.

Horner, V. & Whiten, A. (2007). Learning from others' mistakes? Limits on Understanding a Trap-Tube Task by Young Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Children (Homo sapiens). J. Comp. Psych. 121: 12-21.

Whiten, A., Spiteri, A., Horner, V., Bonnie, K. E., Lambeth, S. P., Schapiro, S. J. and de Waal, F. B. M. (2007). Transmission of multiple traditions within and between chimpanzee groups. Current Biology 17: 1038-1043. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.031

Bonnie, K. E. & de Waal, F.B.M. (2006). Affiliation promotes the transmission of a social custom: Handclasp grooming among captive chimpanzees. Primates 47: 27-34.

Horner, V., Whiten, A., Flynn, E. & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Faithful copying of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 103: 13878-13883.

Horner, V., Bonnie, K. E., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Identifying the motivations of chimpanzees: Culture and collaboration. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 28: 704-705.

Horner, V. & Whiten, A. (2005). Causal knowledge and imitation/emulation switching in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens). Animal Cognition, 8, 164-181.

Whiten, A., Horner, V., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees. Nature 437: 737-740.

 

de Waal, F. B. M., & Davis, J. M. (2003). Capuchin cognitive ecology: cooperation based on projected returns. Neuropsychologia 41: 221-228.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2000). Attitudinal reciprocity in food sharing among brown capuchin monkeys. Animal Behaviour 60: 253-261.

Mendres, K.A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2000). Capuchins do cooperate: the advantage of an intuitive task. Animal Behaviour 60: 523-529.