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Learning from conspecifics

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Chimpanzees may use social learning to acquire new skills

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Studying the Facets of Infant Social Learning

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Maleen Thiele starts Minerva Fast Track group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA)

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Curious children, less curious apes

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Children choose a “mystery box” more often than apes, but after a glimpse of a larger reward from the uncertain option, great apes show more curiosity

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A visit to Rwanda to promote the healthy development of children

Comparative Cultural Psychology

International research project investigates diseases of modern life

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Collaboration on eye level

Comparative Cultural Psychology

New Great Ape Research Network unites expertise of European zoos with latest scientific insights

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Chimpanzees can navigate virtual environments

Comparative Cultural Psychology

In search of virtual fruit, chimpanzees used landscape features for better orientation

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Challenging "rule breakers"

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Children will confront their peers, but how they do so varies across cultures

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Those that game together, stay together

Comparative Cultural Psychology

The games we play reflect the socio-ecological characteristics of the culture that we are in

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Learning words: How children integrate information

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Researchers use a computer model to explain how children integrate information during word learning

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