Strategies for acquiring resources in children and primates
This project is currently running within the research pillar Optimal Development of the Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 strategic theme Dynamics of Youth.
Title:
Strategies for acquiring resources in children and primates: anti-social and pro-social behaviour.
Summary:
Having control over resources (scarce and coveted resources such as food, toys, partners) is crucial for both humans and primates. This project explores how the use of anti-social (force, aggression) and pro-social (collaboration) strategies is related to the acquisition of effective control over resources and how social skills (understanding others) have an influence on this.
In order to explore these relationships and their development over time, both young adolescents and crab-eating macaques will be studied by means of observations, experimental manipulation and questionnaires. By comparing these two different species, the research aims to increase understanding of the evolutionary continuity of social strategies.
Main applicant:
(postdoc, Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences, Social and Behavioural Sciences)
Co-applicants:
(Science)
(Social and Behavioural Sciences)
(Science)
Funding:
Dynamics of Youth call Seed Money 2013
Read more about the research pillar Optimal Development.