動物も人間のように嫉妬するのだろうか?研究者たちは、それは複雑だと言う(Do animals get jealous like people? Researchers say it’s complicated.)

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2024-12-12 カリフォルニア大学バークレー校(UCB)

カリフォルニア大学バークレー校の研究者たちは、動物が人間と同様の「不公平感」や「嫉妬」を感じるかどうかを検討するため、18種の動物を対象とした23件の研究データ、計6万件以上の観察結果を再分析しました。その結果、動物が不公平な状況に対して反応を示すことはあるものの、人間の持つ深い「公平性」の感覚とは大きく異なることが示唆されました。特定の条件下で動物が「嫉妬」に似た行動を示すことはあるものの、その効果は非常に弱く、人間のような強い感情ではないと結論付けられています。

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人間以外の動物における不公平嫌悪の証拠はない:受容/拒絶パラダイムのメタ分析 No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms

Oded Ritov,Christoph J. Völter,Nichola J. Raihani and Jan M. Engelmann
Proceedings of the Royal Society B  Published:27 November 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1452

動物も人間のように嫉妬するのだろうか?研究者たちは、それは複雑だと言う(Do animals get jealous like people? Researchers say it’s complicated.)

Abstract

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 across the animal kingdom, others argue that it is an exclusively human evolutionary adaptation to the selective pressures of cooperation among non-kin. Essential to this debate is the empirical question of whether non-human animals are averse towards unequal resource distributions. Over the past two decades, researchers have reported that individuals from a wide range of taxa exhibit IA; tasks where participants can reject or accept a given distribution of rewards delivered the bulk of this evidence. Yet these results have been questioned on both conceptual and empirical grounds. In the largest empirical investigation of non-human IA to date, we synthesize the primary data from 23 studies using accept/reject tasks, covering 60 430 observations of 18 species. We find no evidence for IA in non-human animals in these tasks. This finding held across all species in the dataset and pre-registered subsets (all species reported to exhibit IA, primates reported to exhibit IA, chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys). Alternative interpretations of the data and implications for the evolution of fairness are discussed.

生物工学一般
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