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Chimpanzees Know What Others Know, but Not What They Believe
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Kaminski, Juliane; Call, Josep; Tomasello, Michael – Cognition, 2008
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…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Animals, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis