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SUBMITTER: Acikalin MY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819778 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acikalin M Yavuz MY Watson Karli K KK Fitzsimons Gavan J GJ Platt Michael L ML
PloS one 20180220 2
Like humans, monkeys value information about sex and status, inviting the hypothesis that our susceptibility to these factors in advertising arises from shared, ancestral biological mechanisms that prioritize social information. To test this idea, we asked whether rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) show choice behavior that is similar to humans in response to sex and social status in advertising. Our results show that monkeys form preferences for brand logos repeatedly paired with images of macaqu ...[more]