Observing Primate Caregivers / by Maria Botero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botero, Maria.

Series:

Behavioral Science and Psychology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Comparative.

Cognitive psychology.

Social psychology.

Zoology.

Comparative Psychology.

Cognitive Psychology.

Social Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Comparative Psychology.

Cognitive Psychology.

Social Psychology.

Zoology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book aims to advance our understanding of the caregiver-infant interaction in primates and its effect on the development of social cognition, working from an interdisciplinary approach (i.e., psychology, philosophy, and anthropology), challenging the dominant cognitivist perspectives and methodologies. This book is important because it contributes to understanding how primate parent-and-infant interaction works and how it affects the infant’s development. Understanding this parent-and-infant interaction contributes to finding better ways to support human parents and provide better care for non-human primate mothers and infants in captivity.

Contents:

Part 1. Before Africa

1. Primate Caregivers and Infants: Three key Ideas

2. Designing a Study: What a Researcher’s Choices Reveal About Their Presuppositions on Communication

Part 2. In the Field

3. Experiencing the Wild

4. It is not That Simple: There is Variation we Must Account for

Part 3. The Aftermath

5. The Importance of Touch

6. How to Interpret Touch

7. Moral Consequences.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783031762161

3031762169

OCLC:

1500522534