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Frans B. M. de Waal
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 269
Citations - 30245
Frans B. M. de Waal is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Aggression & Brown capuchin. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 262 publications receiving 27782 citations. Previous affiliations of Frans B. M. de Waal include Yerkes National Primate Research Center & Utrecht University.
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Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases.
TL;DR: The Perception-Action Model (PAM), together with an understanding of how representations change with experience, can explain the major empirical effects in the literature and can also predict a variety of empathy disorders.
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Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy
TL;DR: Empathy is an ideal candidate mechanism to underlie so-called directed altruism, i.e., altruism in response to anothers's pain, need, or distress, and the dynamics of the empathy mechanism agree with predictions from kin selection and reciprocal altruism theory.
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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
TL;DR: Prologue Darwinian Dilemmas Survival of the Unfittest Biologicizing Morality Calvinist Sociobiology A Broader View The Invisible Grasping Organ Ethology and Ethics Photo Essay: Closeness Sympathy Warm Blood in Cold Waters Special Treatment of the Handicapped Responses to Injury and Death Having Broad Nails The Social Mirror Lying and Aping Apes Simian Simmpathy A World without Compassion Photo Essays: Cognition and Empathy Rank and Order A Sense of Social Regularity The Monkey's Behind Gu
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Monkeys reject unequal pay
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that a nonhuman primate, the brown capuchin monkey (Cebus apella), responds negatively to unequal reward distribution in exchanges with a human experimenter, supporting an early evolutionary origin of inequity aversion.
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Peacemaking among primates
TL;DR: De Waal as mentioned in this paper showed that confrontation should not be viewed as a barrier to sociality but rather as an unavoidable element upon which social relationships can be built and strengthened through reconciliation.