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No imitation without identification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal
Affiliation:
Living Links Center, Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center and Psychology Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30329 dewaal@rmy.emory.edu
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Abstract

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We cannot solve questions about imitative learning without knowing what motivates animals to copy others. Imitative capacities can be expected to be most pronounced in relation to situations and models of great social significance. Experimental research on nonhuman primates has thus far made little effort to present such situations and models.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 689
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press