The Self and Other: A Missing Link in Comparative Social Cognition

Call, Josep

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161564.003.0013

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The Self and Other: A Missing Link in Comparative Social Cognition

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Call, Josep
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Call, J. (2005). The Self and Other: A Missing Link in Comparative Social Cognition. In H. S. Terrace, & J. Metcalfe (Eds.), The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of self-reflective consciousness (pp. 321-341). Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161564.003.0013.

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(from the introduction) In this chapter, Josep Call investigated a different aspect of metacognition. He asked whether a nonhuman primate would seek information it needs to solve some problem. Call hypothesized that if a nonhuman primate knows that it needs information, it would engage in information-seeking behavior before responding. Call describes experiments showing that orangutans, chimps, and gorillas systematically seek information they need to respond correctly on some task. In contrast, phylogenetically older animals such as dogs do not exhibit such behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).