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

Publications

Books & Edited Volumes Since 2000

Aureli, F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2000). NATURAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2001). THE APE AND THE SUSHI MASTER. Basic Books, New York.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2001). TREE OF ORIGIN: What Primate Behavior Can Tell Us About Human Social Evolution. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Tyack, P. L. (2003). ANIMAL SOCIAL COMPLEXITY: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2003). MY FAMILY ALBUM: Thirty Years of Primate Photography. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

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.

Articles in General Science Journals Since 2002

Brosnan, S. F., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2003). Monkeys reject unequal pay. Nature 425: 297-299.

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 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 103: 13878-13883.

Plotnik, J., de Waal, F. B. M. & Reiss, D. (2006). Self-recognition in an Asian elephant. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 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 104: 1581-1586.

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

Whiten, A., Spiteri, A., Horner, V., Bonnie, K. E., Lambeth, S. P., Shapiro, S. J., de Waal, F. B. M. (2007). High-fidelity transmission of multiple traditions within and between groups of chimpanzees. Current Biology 17: doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.031

de Waal FBM (2007) With a little help from a friend. PLoS-Biol 5: e190.

Other Selected Articles and Book Chapters Since 2002

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.

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.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2002). Evolutionary psychology: The wheat and the chaff. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11 (6): 187-191.

de Waal, F. B. M., & Davis, J. M. (2003). Capuchin cognitive ecology: Cooperation based on projected returns. Neuropsychologia 41: 221-228.

de Waal, F. B. M. (2003). On the possibility of animal empathy. In: Feelings & Emotions: The Amsterdam Symposium, T. Manstead, N. Frijda, & A. Fischer (Eds.), pp. 379-399. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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.

Flack, J. C., Jeannotte, L. A., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2004). Play signaling and the perception of social rules by juvenile chimpanzees. Journal of Comparative Psychology 118: 149-159.

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.

Preston, S. D., & de Waal, F. B. M. (2002). Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases. Behavioral & Brain Sciences 25: 1-72.

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.

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: doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093625

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