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Hare, B., Herrmann, E., Woods, V., Wrangham, R. Temperament comparisons in bonobos, chimpanzees and human children.
Hare, B., Melis, A., Hastings, S., Wrangham, R. Comparisons of bonobo and chimpanzees in a
cooperative problem solving task.
Call, J. Petra, P., Hare, B. Comparisons of inhibitory control in great apes and human children.
Rosati, A., Stevens, J., Hare, B., Hauser, H. Comparative tests of patience and impulsivity in bonobos, chimpanzees and human children.
Herrmann, E., Call, J., Hare, B., Tomasello, M. Comparative intelligence tests for chimpanzees and human children.
Melis, A., Hare, B., Tomasello, M. Let’s make a deal: can chimpanzees successfully negotiate?
Hare, B., Melis, A., Warnaken, F., Tomasello, M. The phylogeny and ontogeny of human economic behavior.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Unique Human Cognition

 
     
 
Melis, A., Hare, B., Tomasello, M. in preperation. Chimpanzees know when they need help and who will help them.
Tomasello, M., Hare, B., Call, J., Leehman, H. submitted. The evolution of the cooperative-communicative human eye. Proceedings of the Royal Society: B
Jensen, K., Hare, B., Call, J., Tomasello, M. submitted. Are chimpanzees spiteful or altruistic when sharing food? Proceedings of the Royal Society: B
Melis, A, Hare, B., Tomasello, M. in press. Engineering chimpanzee cooperation: social tolerance constrains cooperation. Animal Behaviour.
Hare, B., Call, J., Tomasello, M. in press. Chimpanzees deceive a human by hiding. Cognition.
Call, J., Hare, B., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M. 2004. “Unwilling” versus “unable”: chimpanzees understanding of human intentional action. Developmental Science.
Hare, B. & Tomasell0, M. 2004. Chimpanzees are more skillful in competitive than in cooperative cognitive tasks. Animal Behaviour.
Tomasello, M., Call, J., Hare, B. 2003. Chimpanzees versus humans: its not that simple. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 239-240.
Tomasello, M., Call, J., Hare, B. 2003. Chimpanzees understand psychological states- the question is which ones and to what extent. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 153-156.
Hare, B., Addessi, E., Call, J., Tomasello, M. & Visalberghi, E. 2003. Do capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) know what conspecifics do and do not see? Animal Behaviour. 65, 131-142.
Hare, B. 2001. Can competitive paradigms increase the validity of social cognitive experiments on primates? Animal Cognition, 4, 269-280.
Hare, B., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. 2001. Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know? Animal Behaviour, 61, 139-151.
Tomasello, M., Hare, B. & Fogleman, T. 2001. The ontogeny of gaze following in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Animal Behaviour, 61, 335-343.
Hare, B., Call, J., Agnetta, B. & Tomasello, M. 2000. Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see. Animal Behaviour, 59, 771-786.
Tomasello, M., Hare, B. & Agnetta, B. 1999. Chimpanzees follow gaze direction geometrically. Animal Behaviour, 58, 769-777.
Itakura, S., Agnetta, B., Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. 1999. Chimpanzees use human and conspecific social cues to locate hidden food. Developmental Science, 2, 448-456.
Call, J., Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. 1998. Chimpanzee gaze following in an object choice task. Animal Cognition, 1, 89-99.
Tomasello, M., Call, J. & Hare, B. 1998. Five primate species follow the visual gaze of conspecifics. Animal Behaviour, 55, 1063-1069.
 
 
 
 
 
   
     
 

Processes of Cognitive Evolution

 
     
 
Wobber, V., Koler-Matznick, J., Hare, B., Wrangham, R., Tomasello, M. submitted. Evidence for two waves of selection on the social skills of dogs. Current Biology.
Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. The emotional reactivity hypothesis and cognitive evolution. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Hare, B. in press. Dogs human-like social skills are heritable and derived. The Genetics of Dogs (E. Ostrander, Ed). Cold Spring Harbor Press.
Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. in press. Human like social skills in dogs? Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Hare, B., Plyusnina, I., Iganacio, N., Wrangham, R., Trut, L. 2005. Social cognitive evolution in captive foxes is a correlated by-product of experimental domestication. Current Biology.
Hare, B. 2004. Dogs use humans as tools: is it the secret to their success? Encyclopedia of Animal Behaviour. Beckoff, M. (ed). Greenwood Publishing Group.
Hare, B., Brown, M., Williamson, C. & Tomasello, M. 2002. The domestication of social cognition in dogs. Science, 298, 1636-1639.
Agnetta, B., Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. 2000. Cues to food locations that domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) of different ages do and do not use. Animal Cognition, 3, 107-112.
Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. 1999. Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use human and conspecific social cues to locate hidden food. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113, 1-5.
Hare, B., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. 1998. Communication of food location between human and dog (Canis familiaris). Evolution of Communication, 2, 137-159.
 
 
 
 
 
  Human Social Cognition & Evolution  
     
 
Wrangham, R., Councklin-Brittian, N., Hare, B. in preparation. Support for the cooking hypothesis: great apes prefer cooked foods.

Wrangham, R., Pilbeam, D. & Hare, B. in preparation. Convergent cranial paedomorphosis in bonobos, domesticated animals and humans? The role of selection for reduced aggression.

Burnham, T., Hare, B. in press. Engineering human cooperation: does involuntary neural activation increase public goods contributions in human adults? Human Nature.

Hare, B. 2004. Using comparative studies of primate and canid social cognition to model our Miocene minds. Dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Hare, B. & Wrangham, R. 2002. Integrating two evolutionary models for the study of social cognition. In: The Cognitive Animal (Ed. by Beckoff, M., Allen, C. & Burhgardt, G.): The MIT Press. 363-369.
 
 
 
 
 
   
     
  Great Ape Conservation  
     
 
Wrangham, R., Wilson, M., Hare, B. & Wolfe, N. 2000. Chimpanzee predation and the ecology of microbial exchange. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 12, 186-188.
Hare, B. 1997. Conflict between humans and chimpanzees in and around forest patches near Kibale National Park, Uganda. Submitted to the Uganda Wildlife Authority.
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
 
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