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Oded Ritov

@oded-ritov.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in psychology at Berkeley. Interested in emotions, morality, and evolution.

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Oded Ritov @oded-ritov.bsky.social · 10h
Do chimpanzees value their friendships enough to pass on juicy pineapple? In our new paper, out now at Evolution and Human Behavior, we find that they do! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screenshot of the paper header on ScienceDirect. Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 47, Issue 6, November 2026, article 106948. Title: "Chimpanzees steal less from their friends and expect them to do the same." Authors: Oded Ritov, Christoph J. Völter, Liran Samuni, Avi Benozio, Dacher Keltner, Jan M. Engelmann, Laura S. Lewis, Esther Herrmann.
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joshuaconfer.bsky.social @joshuaconfer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New paper: in what we think is one of the largest meta-analyses of animal behaviour, we find no evidence for inequity aversion in nonhumans (in accept/reject paradigms) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Led by Oded Ritov & with @engelmann.bsky.social & Christoph Völter
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No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Disadvantageous inequity aversion (IA), a negative response to receiving less than others, is a key building block of the human sense of fairness. While some theorize that IA is shared by species acro...
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
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No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Disadvantageous inequity aversion (IA), a negative response to receiving less than others, is a key building block of the human sense of fairness. While some theorize that IA is shared by species acro...
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