SOCIAL LEARNING AND CULTURE IN CHIMPANZEES

黑猩猩的社会学习和文化

• 批准号: 8357382
• 负责人: FRANS DE WAAL
• 金额: $ 3.29万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8357382
• 关键词: Collaborations; Funding; Grant; Housing; Human; Learning; Literature; Modeling; National Center for Research Resources; Pan Genus; Primates; Principal Investigator; Process; Research; Research Design; Research Infrastructure; Resources; Scotland; Source; Specialist; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; cost; social

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. In collaboration with Dr. Andrew Whiten of St. Andrews University in Scotland (a world renowned specialist in this field), and two postdoctoral associates, we study the process of social learning in outdoor housed groups of chimpanzees. The most recent progress came from a study on the "prestige effect," which asked if chimpanzees, like humans, tend to follow high status models more than low status ones. Comparing two groups in a counterbalanced design, the study found indeed that high status models attract more followers (Horner et al. 2010). The unique feature of these studies, compared to all studies done before, is that some of the models from which the chimpanzees can learn are conspecifics. The first signs are that chimpanzees are much better at learning from other chimpanzees than from humans, which of course puts question marks behind all previously obtained results in the literature.

该子项目是利用资源的众多研究子项目之一 由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目的主要支持 并且子项目的主要研究者可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括其他 NIH 来源。 子项目可能列出的总成本 代表子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， NCRR 赠款不直接向子项目或子项目工作人员提供资金。 我们与苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学的安德鲁·怀特博士（该领域的世界知名专家）和两名博士后合作，研究了户外饲养的黑猩猩群体的社会学习过程。最新的进展来自一项关于“声望效应”的研究，该研究询问黑猩猩是否像人类一样，更倾向于追随高地位的榜样而不是低地位的榜样。通过比较平衡设计中的两个群体，该研究发现，地位高的模特确实能吸引更多的追随者（Horner et al. 2010）。 与之前进行的所有研究相比，这些研究的独特之处在于，黑猩猩可以学习的一些模型是同种的。第一个迹象是，黑猩猩向其他黑猩猩学习的能力比向人类学习的能力要强得多，这当然给之前文献中获得的所有结果打上了问号。