Outputs (4)

Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair (2021)
Journal Article
Heesen, R., Fröhlich, M., Sievers, C., Woensdregt, M., & Dingemanse, M. (2022). Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1859), https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0110

Evidence of joint commitment in great apes’ natural joint actions (2021)
Journal Article
Heesen, R., Zuberbühler, K., Bangerter, A., Iglesias, K., Rossano, F., Pajot, A., …Genty, E. (2021). Evidence of joint commitment in great apes’ natural joint actions. Royal Society Open Science, 8(12), Article 211121. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211121

Human joint action seems special, as it is grounded in joint commitment—a sense of mutual obligation participants feel towards each other. Comparative research with humans and non-human great apes has typically investigated joint commitment by experi... Read More about Evidence of joint commitment in great apes’ natural joint actions.

Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes (2021)
Journal Article
Heesen, R., Bangerter, A., Zuberbühler, K., Iglesias, K., Neumann, C., Pajot, A., …Genty, E. (2021). Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes. iScience, 24(8), Article 102872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102872

Many social animals interact jointly, but only humans experience a specific sense of obligation toward their co-participants, a joint commitment. However, joint commitment is not only a mental state but also a process that reveals itself in the coord... Read More about Assessing joint commitment as a process in great apes.

Primate communication: Affective, intentional, or both? (2021)
Book Chapter
Heesen, R., Sievers, C., Gruber, T., & Clay, Z. (2022). Primate communication: Affective, intentional, or both?. In B. Schwartz, & M. Beran (Eds.), Primate Cognitive Studies (411-438). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955836.017