The traditional notion of aggression as an antisocial instinct is being replaced by a
framework that considers it a tool of competition and negotiation. When survival depends on …

Although touch is one of the most neglected modalities of communication, several lines of
research bear on the important communicative functions served by the modality. The authors …

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Knowledge of how animals manage their conflicts is critical for understanding the dynamics
of social systems. During the last two decades research on gregarious animals, especially …

Primates are long-lived, highly social mammals who maintain long-term social bonds and
cohesive social groups through many affiliative mechanisms, foremost among them social …

Conflict management is one of the primary requirements for social complexity. Of the many
forms of conflict management, one of the rarest and most interesting is third-party policing, or …

This paper integrates a diverse and scattered literature to describe the psychodynamic
underpinnings of granting and seeking forgiveness. The evolutionary foundations and the …

Reconciliation, defined as a friendly reunion between former opponents shortly after an
aggressive encounter, is common in the stumptail macaque (Macaca arctoides) but rare in …

Because conflicts among social group members are inevitable, their management is crucial
for group stability. The rarest and most interesting form of conflict management is policing, ie …

A procedure originally developed for the study of post-conflict behaviour in captive groups
was used to study a group of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in the wild. During …