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Jan Engelmann

@janengelmann.bsky.social
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Comparative and Developmental Psychologist at UC Berkeley and Director of the Social Origins Lab: socialoriginslab.com

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Jan Engelmann @janengelmann.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
We also showed that chimpanzees respond appropriately to so-called “second-order evidence”—that is, evidence about evidence. This indicates that chimpanzees explicitly represent what has been called the *evidential relation*: the causal connection between evidence and hypothesis. (6/8)
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Jan Engelmann @janengelmann.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Chimpanzees responded to the counterevidence in line with the rational predictions of a mathematical model of rational belief revision. That is: they revised their prior belief when the counterevidence was stronger than the initial evidence, but maintained their belief otherwise (4/8)
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Jan Engelmann @janengelmann.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Chimpanzees participated in a foraging task. We first gave them evidence that food was in one location, and let them make a first choice. Then we presented them with *counterevidence*: evidence for the other location. (3/8)
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