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Even very young babies can tell the difference between someone who's helpful and someone who's mean and lab studies show that babies consistently prefer the helpers.
But one of humans' closest relatives the bonobo makes a different choice, preferring to cozy up to the meanies.
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"The bonobos weren't very interested in the helper," says Krupenye. Instead, they consistently chose to take food from the jerk.
Humans might not want to interact with someone who is not nice, but it looks like bonobos interpret the meanie's behavior as a sign of dominance. - Utah Public Radio
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Phoenix61
(17,027 posts)comment. These were all orphaned bonobos. What was their experience with a nurturing maternal relationship? How did they come to be orphaned? Were they mistreated by "mean" humans before being rescued? Extrapolating anything from their behavior is problematic.
ffr
(22,681 posts)We as humans recognize patterns. Whether the Bonobos were orphaned, raised by wolves or were all rescued in a lifeboat at sea, is way beyond the general behavior pattern I think should be drawn.
Extrapolating their pattern of behavior is completely consistent with human pattern recognition and possibly consistent with explaining why certain humans are drawn to mean personalities, aka bullies.
Phoenix61
(17,027 posts)This isn't just about pattern recognition it's about responding to those patterns and that is learned behavior. Orphaned animals have a very different learning environment than those raised with a primary caregiver. If they want to extrapolate this to how people exposed to trauma in early childhood react, ok, but otherwise it's not a representative sample of normal development so shouldn't be used to extrapolate behavior for that population.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Some primates are jerks.
Your trumpster uncle is a jerk.