{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Titchener R"],"funding":["LeibnizScience Campus","DFG, German Research Foundation"],"pagination":["221225"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9974291"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(3)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Protest in response to unequal reward distribution is thought to have played a central role in the evolution of human cooperation. Some animals refuse food and become demotivated when rewarded more poorly than a conspecific, and this has been taken as evidence that non-human animals, like humans, protest in the face of inequity. An alternative explanation-social disappointment-shifts the cause of this discontent away from the unequal reward, to the human experimenter who could-but elects not to-treat the subject well. This study investigates whether social disappointment could explain frustration behaviour in long-tailed macaques, <i>Macaca fascicularis</i>. We tested 12 monkeys in a novel 'inequity aversion' paradigm. Subjects had to pull a lever and were rewarded with low-value food; in "],"journal":["Royal Society open science"],"pubmed_title":["Social disappointment and partner presence affect long-tailed macaque refusal behaviour in an 'inequity aversion' experiment."],"pmcid":["PMC9974291"],"funding_grant_id":["SF2018/02/LSC","254142454/GRK"],"pubmed_authors":["Titchener R","Scherberger H","Thiriau C","Fischer J","Huser T","Keupp S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Social disappointment and partner presence affect long-tailed macaque refusal behaviour in an 'inequity aversion' experiment.","description":"Protest in response to unequal reward distribution is thought to have played a central role in the evolution of human cooperation. Some animals refuse food and become demotivated when rewarded more poorly than a conspecific, and this has been taken as evidence that non-human animals, like humans, protest in the face of inequity. An alternative explanation-social disappointment-shifts the cause of this discontent away from the unequal reward, to the human experimenter who could-but elects not to-treat the subject well. This study investigates whether social disappointment could explain frustration behaviour in long-tailed macaques, <i>Macaca fascicularis</i>. We tested 12 monkeys in a novel 'inequity aversion' paradigm. Subjects had to pull a lever and were rewarded with low-value food; in ","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Mar","modification":"2025-04-19T02:45:24.632Z","creation":"2025-02-19T04:54:30.974Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9974291","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36866079"],"doi":["10.1098/rsos.221225"]}}