Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness

TED talk

Photo courtesy of TED (click on photo to link to talk)

Photo courtesy of TED (click on photo to link to talk)

 

Minute with a Professor - Sarah Brosnan

Georgia State University

Dr. Sarah Brosnan, professor of psychology, philosophy and neuroscience, studies the evolution of decision-making behavior across humans and other primates. She concentrates on responses to inequity to help us understand how we make decisions. client: georgia state university produced: georgia state university, pr and marcomm director: basil iskandrian editor: william davis cameras: joey kopanski, basil iskandrian, william davis sound: william davis music: Handle's Entrance of the Queen of Sheba

 

ScienceLives Interview With Sarah Brosnan

National Science Foundation

Do non-human primates like chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys respond to inequity or unfairness the way humans do? Georgia State psychologist and neuroscientist, Sarah Brosnan is interested in finding out. Brosnan studies the behavior of primates to better understand how they make decisions and cooperate with one another.
 

A Theory of Justice in Primates

Sackler Colloquia

In the Light of Evolution VII: The Human Mental Machinery Organized by Camilo J. Cela-Conde, Raúl Gutiérrez Lombardo, John C. Avise and Francisco J. Ayala Co-sponsored by Centro de Estudios Filosóficos Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano This meeting was held January 10-12, 2013 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, CA.
 

Monkey Business

NSF Science Nation

Most of us can understand how we feel if someone else gets a better reward for doing the exact same work we did. Researchers are studying how these feelings of inequity evolved and if primates have the same sense of inequity.
 

Honors College interview with Sarah Brosnan

honors college,
Georgia State University

Meet the winner of the 2016 Faculty Undergraduate Research Award, Dr. Sarah Brosnan. Dr. Brosnan is a Georgia State Professor of Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Psychology whose research focuses on primate behavioral studies. Dr. Brosnan and her research team study primates' behavior in order to gain a deeper understanding of human psychology and how we interact with one another, particularly in situations where there is unfairness and inequality.
 

Chimpanzees Play the Ultimatum Game

Yerkes National Primate Research Center

Win-win situation. In this video, chimps play the Ultimatum Game: a test of their sense of fairness (Credit: Darby Proctor/Emory University). - Can Chimps Learn to Play Fair? http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/01/can-chimps-learn-to-play-fair.html?ref=hp - Chimpanzees successfully play the Ultimatum Game Confirmation of apes' sense of fairness provides another close link to humans http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-01/eu-csp010913.php Reference Chimpanzees play the ultimatum game PNAS January 14, 2013 201220806, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1220806110 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/09/1220806110 Abstract Is the sense of fairness uniquely human?

What happens when you pay two monkeys unequally? Watch what happens. An excerpt from the TED Talk: "Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals." Watch the whole talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_morals.html

Two Monkeys Were Paid Unequally

Excerpt from Frans de Waal's TED Talk “Moral Behavior in Animals”

 


What can monkeys teach us about ourselves?

Orbiter magazine

(full story and additional videos)

We connected with Dr. Sarah Brosnan, Professor of Psychology, Philosophy & Neuroscience at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Brosnan does research with nonhuman primates-particularly capuchin monkeys-at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. Learn more: https://orbitermag.com/what-can-monkeys-teach-us-about-ourselves Explore more of Dr. Sarah Brosnan's work in ORBITER's Uniquely Human series: https://orbitermag.com/are-we-all-that-different-from-primates/

Monkeys have emotions, too (Mackenzie Smith)

Orbiter magazine

(full story and additional videos)

We connected with Mackenzie Smith, primate researcher working with Dr. Sarah Brosnan, Professor of Psychology, Philosophy & Neuroscience at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Smith and Brosnan conduct research with nonhuman primates-particularly capuchin monkeys-at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. Learn more: https://orbitermag.com/what-can-monkeys-teach-us-about-ourselves

Are monkeys willing to take risks? (Olivia Tomeo Reilly)

Orbiter magazine

(full story and additional videos)

We connected with Olivia Tomeo, primate researcher working with Dr. Sarah Brosnan, Professor of Psychology, Philosophy & Neuroscience at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Tomeo and Brosnan conduct research with nonhuman primates-particularly capuchin monkeys-at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. Learn more: https://orbitermag.com/what-can-monkeys-teach-us-about-ourselves

Responses to Inequity in non-human primates

distinctive voices @ the beckman center

 

Inequity is a major social problem, impacting humans from the individual to the global level. Humans are not alone in this; other species, too, respond negatively to unequal outcomes as compared to a social partner, and studying these species' reactions can tell us something about the evolution of our own behavior.
 

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The Conversation

Ricardo Lopes

 

Sarah Brosnan on cooperation

University of Richmond

The Jepson School of Leadership Studies hosted The Jepson Colloquium "For the Greater Good of All: Perspectives on Individualism, Society and Leadership" during which Sarah Brosnan, a primatologist at Georgia State University, presented "What Do Capuchin Monkeys Tell Us About Cooperation?" January 22, 2010