Scientific publications


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   2024

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the principle of reciprocation

Ethology 130: 13445

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Exploring cultural techniques in non-human animals: how are flexibility and rigidity expressed at the individual, group, and population level?

The Evolution of Techniques: 235-251

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Female dominance over males in wild-type rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 78: 56

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Cooperation, coalition, alliances

The Handbook of Paleoanthropology: in press

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   2023

On closer inspection:

Reviewing the debate on whether fish cooperate to inspect predators

Ethology 130: 13427

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   2022

Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees

Current Biology 32: 5138-5143

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The evolution of primate short-term memory

Animal Behavior and Cognition 9: 428-516

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   2021

Cooperative intentions and their implications on reciprocal cooperation

Ethology 127: 865-871

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Capuchins (Sapajus apella) and their aversion to inequity

Comparative Cognition: 173-195

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Reciprocal cooperation - Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) as an example

The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition: 343-361

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Rats show direct reciprocity when interacting with multiple partners

Scientific Reports 11: 3228

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   2020

Anybody watching? How others affect helpful actions

Learning and Behavior 49: 5-6

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The smell of cooperation: rats increase helpful behaviour when receiving odour cues of a conspecific performing a cooperative task

Proceedings of the Royal Society 287: 2020232

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The social life of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus)

eLife 9: 54020

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Rats play tit-for-tat instead of integrating cooperative experiences

over multiple interactions

Proceedings of the Royal Society 287: 20192423

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   2019

Reciprocity: different behavioural strategies, cognitive mechanisms

and psychological processes

Learning and Behavior 47: 284-301

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Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research

PLoS One 14: 0223675

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Revisiting the possibility of reciprocal help in non-human primates

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Research 104: 73-86

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Male rats cooperate according to direct reciprocity

but not to generalised reciprocity

Animal Behaviour 152: 93-101

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   2018

Reciprocal trading of different commodities in Norway rats

Current Biology 28: 594-599

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  Relatedness decreases and reciprocity increases cooperation in Norway rats

Proceedings of the Royal Society 285: 1874

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Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) communicate need,

which elicits donation of food

Journal of Comparative Psychology 2: 119-129

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Spontaneous social tool use in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Journal of Comparative Psychology 132: 455-463

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   2017

Experimental evidence for reciprocity in allogrooming among Norway rats

Scientific Reports 7: 4010

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Do female Norway rats form social bonds?

Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 71: 98

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The transfer of alternative tasks in reciprocal cooperation

Animal Behaviour 131: 35-41

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Reciprocal allogrooming among unrelated Norway rats is affected by previously received cooperative, affiliative and aggressive behaviours

Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 71: 182

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   2016

No evidence for audience effects in reciprocal cooperation of Norway rats

Ethology 221: 513-521

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   under review

Conflicts and their resolutions in chimpanzees

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Dominance relations of Norway rats in pairs versus in groups

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Beyond the null: Recognizing and reporting true negative findings

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