Chimpanzees Know What Others Know, but Not What They Believe

Autor/inn/en	Kaminski, Juliane; Call, Josep; Tomasello, Michael
Titel	Chimpanzees Know What Others Know, but Not What They Believe
Quelle	In: Cognition, 109 (2008) 2, S.224-234 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2008.08.010
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Development; Animals; Cognitive Ability; Comparative Analysis; Young Children; Intelligence; Comprehension + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kognitive Entwicklung; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Denkfähigkeit; Frühe Kindheit; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Verstehen; Verständnis
Abstract	There is currently much controversy about which, if any, mental states chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates understand. In the current two studies we tested both chimpanzees' and human children's understanding of both knowledge-ignorance and false belief--in the same experimental paradigm involving competition with a conspecific. We found that whereas 6-year-old children understood both of these mental states, chimpanzees understood knowledge-ignorance but not false belief. After ruling out various alternative explanations of these and related findings, we conclude that in at least some situations chimpanzees know what others know. Possible explanations for their failure in the highly similar false belief task are discussed. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10