Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition
The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23317677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Esther Herrmann (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany., corresponding author), Josep Call (0000-0002-8597-8336, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany.), María Victoria Hernández-Lloreda (0000-0003-0966-7453, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany.), Brian Hare (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany.), M Tomasello (0000-0002-1649-088X, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany.) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 317 |
| Issue | 5843 |
| Pages | 1360-1366 |
| Publication date | 2007-09-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8075 • E-ISSN: 0193-4511 |
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.1146282 |
| PMID | 17823346 |
| OpenAlex | W1979486681 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 230 |
| References cited | 26 |
Humans have many cognitive skills not possessed by their nearest primate relatives. The cultural intelligence hypothesis argues that this is mainly due to a species-specific set of social-cognitive skills, emerging early in ontogeny, for participating and exchanging knowledge in cultural groups. We tested this hypothesis by giving a comprehensive battery of cognitive tests to large numbers of two of humans' closest primate relatives, chimpanzees and orangutans, as well as to 2.5-year-old human children before literacy and schooling. Supporting the cultural intelligence hypothesis and contradicting the hypothesis that humans simply have more “general intelligence,” we found that the children and chimpanzees had very similar cognitive skills for dealing with the physical world but that the children had more sophisticated cognitive skills than either of the ape species for dealing with the social world.
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive skill · Cultural intelligence · Developmental psychology · Human intelligence · Primate · Set (abstract data type) · Social cognition · Social intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Neuroscience · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology
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