Macaques also suffer xenophobia, the researchers found

People love to associate in groups: fans of “Spartacus”, the students-biologists, members of the firm N, supporters of al-Qadhafi, and so on. In this case, members of other groups we dislike, we tend to associate good things with “our”, and all negative - with “outsiders.” Psychologists call this ingruppovym favoritism.

Researchers from Yale University have found similar behavior in rhesus monkeys living on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico. It turns out that monkeys know “in your face” all members of their own group and it is easy to distinguish them from outsiders, against whom are often much more wary. Photos of your group are not thinking is viewed positively, but pictures strangers - after a much longer period of scrutiny - negatively. Tribesmen associate them with pleasant things such as fruit, and foreigners - a vile creature like spiders. It is found using the test in which pictures of macaques have been grouped with pictures of different things.

24 March 2011

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