2021

Keupp, Stefanie, Grueneisen, Sebastian, Warneken, Felix, Ludvig, Elliot Andrew and Melis, Alicia P. (2021) Relationship between delay discounting and risk preference in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43 . ISSN 1069-7977.

2019

Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2019) Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) develop a successful communicative strategy to collaborate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286 (1901). doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0408 ISSN 0962-8452.

2018

John, Maria, Melis, Alicia P., Read, Daniel, Rossano, Federico and Tomasello, Michael (2018) The preference for scarcity : a developmental and comparative perspective. Psychology & Marketing, 35 (8). pp. 603-615. doi:10.1002/mar.21109 ISSN 0742-6046.

Melis, Alicia P. (2018) The evolutionary roots of prosociality : the case of instrumental helping. Current Opinion in Psychology, 20 . pp. 82-86. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.08.019 ISSN 2352-250X.

Melis, Alicia P., Engelmann, Jan M. and Warneken, Felix (2018) Correspondence : Chimpanzee helping is real, not a byproduct. Nature Communications, 9 . 615. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02321-6 ISSN 2041-1723.

2016

Melis, Alicia P. and Warneken, Felix (2016) The psychology of cooperation : insights from chimpanzees and children. Evolutionary Anthropology, 25 (6). pp. 297-305. doi:10.1002/evan.21507 ISSN 1060-1538.

Melis, Alicia P., Grocke, Patricia, Kalbitz, Josefine and Tomasello, Michael (2016) One for you, one for me : humans’ unique turn-taking skills. Psychological Science, 27 (7). pp. 987-996. doi:10.1177/0956797616644070 ISSN 0956-7976.

2015

Melis, A.P., Anja, Floedl and Tomasello, Michael (2015) Non-Egalitarian allocations among preschool peers in a face-to-face bargaining task. PLoS One, 10 (3). e0120494. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120494 ISSN 1932-6203.

2014

Bullinger, Anke F., Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2014) Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) instrumentally help but do not communicate in a mutualistic cooperative task. Journal of Comparative Psychology, Volume 128 (Number 3). pp. 251-260. doi:10.1037/a0035645 ISSN 0735-7036.

Nitzschner, Marie, Kaminski, Juliane, Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2014) Side matters : potential mechanisms underlying dogs' performance in a social eavesdropping paradigm. Animal Behaviour, 90 . pp. 263-271. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.01.035 ISSN 0003-3472.

2013

Melis, Alicia P. (2013) The evolutionary roots of human collaboration : coordination and sharing of resources. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1299 . pp. 68-76. doi:10.1111/nyas.12263 ISSN 0077-8923.

Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2013) Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) strategic helping in a collaborative task. Biology Letters, Volume 9 (Number 2). Article number 20130009. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0009 ISSN 1744-9561.

Melis, Alicia P., Altrichter, Kristin and Tomasello, Michael (2013) Allocation of resources to collaborators and free-riders in 3-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Volume 114 (Number 2). pp. 364-370. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2012.08.006 ISSN 0022-0965.

Bullinger, Anke F., Burkart, Judith M., Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2013) Bonobos, Pan paniscus, chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, and marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, prefer to feed alone. Animal Behaviour, Volume 85 (Number 1). pp. 51-60. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.10.006 ISSN 0003-3472.

2012

Schneider, A.-C., Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2012) How chimpanzees solve collective action problems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume 279 (Number 1749). pp. 4946-4954. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1948 ISSN 0962-8452.

Tomasello, Michael, Melis, Alicia P., Tennie, Claudio, Wyman, Emily and Herrmann, Esther (2012) Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation. Current Anthropology, Volume 53 (Number 6). pp. 673-692. doi:10.1086/668207 ISSN 0011-3204.

2011

Melis, Alicia P., Schneider, Anna-Claire and Tomasello, Michael (2011) Chimpanzees, pan troglodytes, share food in the same way after collaborative and individual food acquisition. Animal Behaviour, Volume 82 (Number 3). pp. 485-493. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.024 ISSN 0003-3472.

Warneken, F., Lohse, K., Melis, Alicia P. and Tomasello, Michael (2011) Young children share the spoils after collaboration. Psychological Science, Volume 22 (Number 2). pp. 267-273. doi:10.1177/0956797610395392 ISSN 0956-7976.

2010

Melis, Alicia P. and Semmann, D. (2010) How is human cooperation different? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume 365 (Number 1553). pp. 2663-2674. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0157 ISSN 0962-8436.

Melis, Alicia P., Call, Josep and Tomasello, Michael (2010) 36-month-olds conceal visual and auditory information from others. Developmental Science, Volume 13 (Number 3). pp. 479-489. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00892.x ISSN 1363-755x.

2009

Melis, Alicia P., Hare, Brian and Tomasello, Michael (2009) Chimpanzees coordinate in a negotiation game. Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 30 (Number 6). pp. 381-392. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2009.05.003 ISSN 1090-5138.

2008

Melis, Alicia P., Hare, Brian and Tomasello, Michael (2008) Do chimpanzees reciprocate received favours? Animal Behaviour, 76 (3). pp. 951-962. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.014 ISSN 0003-3472.