Kirsten Sutherland
@kirstensutherland.bsky.social
PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
comparative psychology / cooperation / social dilemmas / great apes
comparative psychology / cooperation / social dilemmas / great apes
Excited to share this work done with @alex-primate.bsky.social and Daniel Haun @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social (the first publication from my PhD!), where we found that chimpanzees sustained a collective resource for longer in groups of four compared to dyads rdcu.be/e0qPR
Chimpanzee groups achieve sustainable resource use in a common-pool resource dilemma
Communications Psychology - Groups of two or four chimpanzees encountered a collective resource sustainability problem. Quartets avoided resource collapse for longer than dyads, with group social...
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January 23, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Excited to share this work done with @alex-primate.bsky.social and Daniel Haun @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social (the first publication from my PhD!), where we found that chimpanzees sustained a collective resource for longer in groups of four compared to dyads rdcu.be/e0qPR