Expecting the unexpected: Great apes anticipate surprise in others
Humans adeptly navigate complex social environments by attempting to anticipate the actions and emotional responses of others. Although our closest ape relatives have sophisticated social cognitive abilities, we do not know whether they have a cognitive understanding of others' emotions. For the epistemic emotion surprise, a cognitive understanding would require sensitivity to an agent's belief,…
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