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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

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Primates Are Bad at Understanding Other People's Perspectives

Studies suggest that there are more similarities than we imagine between humans and other animals. They challenge our assumption that the human mind is unique. One long standing belief was that non human primates were bad at thinking about other animals perspectives. If you turn to human infants, what you find is capacities that are there in the absence of experience.

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