Abstract
Our study (1) describes the behavioral correlates of prosociality thanks to well-controlled quantitative data and a task challenging macaques with social decisions that could produce positive or negative outcomes. Gaze and eye-blinking served as proxies of monkeys’ social motivation and affective bond. Mutual gaze was indeed found to correlate with prosocial decisions and with social grooming in the living space, and partner-dependent rudimentary empathy was revealed through eye blinking in prediction of other’s discomfort. Cronin’s letter (2) focuses on our methods and on the interpretation of social gaze. Cronin claims that direct eye contact in monkeys is necessarily threatening and that the … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: duhamel{at}isc.cnrs.fr. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1
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