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Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species
Predictions about others’ future actions are crucial during social interactions, in order to react optimally. Another way to assess such interactions is to define the social context of the situations explicitly and categorize them according to their affective content. Here we investigate how humans...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728876/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36477294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277783 |
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author | Epperlein, Theresa Kovacs, Gyula Oña, Linda S. Amici, Federica Bräuer, Juliane |
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description | Predictions about others’ future actions are crucial during social interactions, in order to react optimally. Another way to assess such interactions is to define the social context of the situations explicitly and categorize them according to their affective content. Here we investigate how humans assess aggressive, playful and neutral interactions between members of three species: human children, dogs and macaques. We presented human participants with short video clips of real-life interactions of dyads of the three species and asked them either to categorize the context of the situation or to predict the outcome of the observed interaction. Participants performed above chance level in assessing social situations in humans, in dogs and in monkeys. How accurately participants predicted and categorized the situations depended both on the species and on the context. Contrary to our hypothesis, participants were not better at assessing aggressive situations than playful or neutral situations. Importantly, participants performed particularly poorly when assessing aggressive behaviour for dogs. Also, participants were not better at assessing social interactions of humans compared to those of other species. We discuss what mechanism humans use to assess social situations and to what extent this skill can also be found in other social species. |
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spelling | pubmed-97288762022-12-08 Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species Epperlein, Theresa Kovacs, Gyula Oña, Linda S. Amici, Federica Bräuer, Juliane PLoS One Research Article Predictions about others’ future actions are crucial during social interactions, in order to react optimally. Another way to assess such interactions is to define the social context of the situations explicitly and categorize them according to their affective content. Here we investigate how humans assess aggressive, playful and neutral interactions between members of three species: human children, dogs and macaques. We presented human participants with short video clips of real-life interactions of dyads of the three species and asked them either to categorize the context of the situation or to predict the outcome of the observed interaction. Participants performed above chance level in assessing social situations in humans, in dogs and in monkeys. How accurately participants predicted and categorized the situations depended both on the species and on the context. Contrary to our hypothesis, participants were not better at assessing aggressive situations than playful or neutral situations. Importantly, participants performed particularly poorly when assessing aggressive behaviour for dogs. Also, participants were not better at assessing social interactions of humans compared to those of other species. We discuss what mechanism humans use to assess social situations and to what extent this skill can also be found in other social species. Public Library of Science 2022-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9728876/ /pubmed/36477294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277783 Text en © 2022 Epperlein et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Epperlein, Theresa Kovacs, Gyula Oña, Linda S. Amici, Federica Bräuer, Juliane Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species |
title | Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species |
title_full | Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species |
title_fullStr | Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species |
title_full_unstemmed | Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species |
title_short | Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species |
title_sort | context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728876/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36477294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277783 |
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