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No imitation without identification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal
Affiliation:
Living Links Center, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center and Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329 [email protected]
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Abstract

We cannot solve questions about imitative learning without knowing what motivates animals to copy others. Imitative capacities can be expected to be most pronounced in relation to situations and models of great social significance. Experimental research on nonhuman primates has thus far made little effort to present such situations and models.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 689
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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