Sentences with word «hinderer»

In contrast, humans typically favor helpers over hinderers, starting in infancy.

A final experiment suggested that the bonobos» preference for hinderers might be driven by attraction to more dominant individuals.

Snacks covered by hinderer shapes were chosen about 70 percent of the time by the 14 adult animals, ages 9 and older.

But sometimes the exclusion of men from parenting can be more subtle: the baby change in the women's loo; the parents parking spaces at supermarkets showing a figure in a skirt with baby; a plethora of parenting charities, organisations and websites which are aimed at squarely at women, mentioning men only as supporters or helpers (and very often hinderers).

If chimps view hinderers as kindly as bonobos do, that finding would support the duo's proposal about human cooperation, he says.

The evidence also suggests that bonobos might prefer hinderers because they see them as more dominant.

This result suggests that some bonobos» strong preference for dominant individuals partly accounts for the newly reported fondness for hinderers, Krupenye says.

After watching the first two videos, bonobos chose between paper cutouts of helper and hinderer shapes placed on top of small apple pieces.

Six - to - nine - month - old children overwhelmingly chose the helper shape over the hinderer to play with.

Babies, for instance, can tell a helper from a hinderer — and they prefer the helper.

In a second video, a circle tries and fails to climb a hill before a «hinderer» square arrives and pushes the circle farther down the hill.

Previous investigations indicate that, by 3 months old, humans do the opposite of bonobos, choosing to align more frequently with helpers than hinderers.

While bonobos are similarly adept in discriminating helpers from hinderers, they show the opposite bias, consistently favoring hinderers over helpers.

In every case, bonobos showed an ability to differentiate helpers and hinderers.

Surprisingly, however, they showed a preference for hinderers every time.