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Chimp Politics

The Political Orphanage

CHAPTER

Primate Decision-Making and Economic Games

This chapter examines how redesigned economic games reveal decision-making processes in primates, specifically through coordination tasks like the Prisoner's Dilemma. It highlights contrastive insights between primate and human behaviors regarding fairness, inequality, and social interactions, rooted in a personal research experience with trading behaviors in monkeys.

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