Emory Department of Psychology | Neuroscience & Animal Behavior

Frans B. M. de Waal , Ph.D.

Publications

Books & Edited Volumes Since 2005

de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). OUR INNER APE: A leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are (Riverhead, New York).

de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). PRIMATES AND PHILOSOPHERS: How Morality Evolved, S. Macedo & J. Ober (Eds.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2009). THE AGE OF EMPATHY: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society. New York: Harmony Books.

Articles in General Science Journals Since 2005

de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). How animals do business. Scientific American 292 (4): 72-79.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). A century of getting to know the chimpanzee. Nature 437: 56-59.

de Waal, F. B. M., Dindo, M., Freeman, C. A., & Hall, M. (2005). The monkey in the mirror: Hardly a stranger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 102: 11140-11147.

Whiten, A., Horner, V., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees. Nature 437: 737-740.

Flack, J. C., Girvan, M., de Waal, F. B. M., & Krakauer, D. C. (2006). Policing stabilizes construction of social niches in primates. Nature 439: 426-429.

Horner, V., Whiten, A., Flynn, E., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Faithful replication of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 13878-13883.

Plotnik, J., de Waal, F. B. M. & Reiss, D. (2006). Self-recognition in an Asian elephant. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 17053-17057.

Bonnie, K. E., Horner, V., Whiten, A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Spread of arbitrary conventions among chimpanzees: A controlled experiment. Proc. Royal Soc. B 274, 367-372.

Flack, J. C., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2007). Context modulates signal meaning in primate communication. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, USA 104: 1581-1586.

Pollick, A. S., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2007). Ape gestures and language evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104: 8184-8189.

van Wolkenten, M., Brosnan, S. F., de Waal, F. B. M. (2007). Inequity responses of monkeys modified by effort. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104: 18854 –18859.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Pokorny, J. (2008). Faces and behinds: Chimpanzee sex perception. Advanced Science Letters 1: 99-103.

de Waal, F. B. M., Boesch, C., Horner, V., & Whiten, A. (2008). Comparing children and apes not so simple. Science 319: 569.

de Waal, F. B. M., Leimgruber, K., & Greenberg, A. R. (2008). Giving is self-rewarding for monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105: 13685-13689.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2009). Darwin’s last laugh. Nature 460: 175.

Other Selected Articles and Book Chapters Since 2005

Brosnan, S. F., Schiff, H., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Tolerance for inequity increases with social closeness in chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 272 (1560): 253-258.

Flack, J. C., de Waal, F. B. M, & Krakauer, D. C. (2005). Social structure, robustness, and policing cost in a cognitively sophisticated species. American Naturalist 165: E126-E139.

Parr, L. A., Cohen, M., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). The influence of social context on the use of blended and graded facial displays in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). International Journal of Primatology 26: 73-104.

Pollick, A. S., Gouzoules, H., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Audience effects on food calls in captive brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Animal Behaviour 70: 1273-1281.

Brosnan, S. F., Freeman, C., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Partner’s behavior, not reward distribution, determines success in an unequal cooperative task in capuchin monkeys. American Journal of Primatology 68: 713-724.

Flack, J.C., Krakauer, D. C., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2005). Robustness mechanisms in primate societies: A perturbation study. Proc. Royal Society London B 272: 1091-1099.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Brosnan, S. F. (2006). Simple and complex reciprocity in primates. In: Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution. P. M. Kappeler & C. P. van Schaik (Eds.), pp. 85-105. Berlin: Springer.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Joint ventures require joint pay-offs: Fairness among primates. Social Research 73: 349-364.

Dindo, M., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2006). Partner effects on food consumption in brown capuchin monkeys. Am. J. Primatol. 69: 1-9.

Bonnie, KE & de Waal FBM (2007). Copying without rewards: socially influenced foraging decisions among brown capuchin monkeys. Animal Cognition 10: 283-292.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2008). Putting the altruism back into altruism: The evolution of empathy. Annual Review of Psychology 59: 279-300.

Whiten, A., Spiteri, A., Horner, V., Bonnie, K. E., Lambeth, S. P., Shapiro, S. J., de Waal, F. B. M. (2007). Transmission of multiple traditions within and between chimpanzee groups. Current Biology 17: 1038-1043.

Thierry, B., Aureli, F., Nunn, C. L., Petit, O., Abegg, C., & de Waal, F. B. M . (2007). A comparative study of conflict resolution in macaques: Insights into the nature of trait co-variation. Animal Behaviour 75: 847-860.

Dindo, M., Whiten, A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2009). Social facilitation of exploratory foraging behavior in capuchin monkeys. Am. Journal of Primatology 71: 419-428.

Pokorny, J., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2009). Face recognition in capuchin monkeys. Journal of Comparative Psychology 123: 151–160.

Plotnik, J. M., de Waal, F. B. M., Moore, D., & Reiss, D. (2009). Self-recognition in the asian elephant and future directions for cognitive research with elephants in zoological settings. Zoo Biology 28 : 1–13.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Bonnie, K. E. (2009). In tune with others: The social side of primate culture. In: The Question of Animal Culture, K. Laland & G. Galef (Eds.), pp. 19-39. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.