No evidence for a relationship between breed cooperativeness and inequity aversion in dogs.

Inequity aversion, the resistance to inequitable outcomes, has been demonstrated in a wide variety of animal species. Inequity aversion was hypothesised to have co-evolved with cooperation but only limited evidence supports this. Dogs provide a suitable model species to test this hypothesis as dogs...

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Main Authors: Jim McGetrick, Désirée Brucks, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Friederike Range
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233067