Great apes are sensitive to prior reliability of an informant in a gaze following task.

Social animals frequently rely on information from other individuals. This can be costly in case the other individual is mistaken or even deceptive. Human infants below 4 years of age show proficiency in their reliance on differently reliable informants. They can infer the reliability of an informan...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Schmid, Katja Karg, Josef Perner, Michael Tomasello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5699835?pdf=render