When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers reporting in iScience on November 8 have found that chimpanzees' performance on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all have probably experienced it: performing differently when someone's watching. Turns out, this "audience effect" isn't just ...

Chimpanzee performance on computer tasks seems to be influenced by the number of people watching, a new study suggests. A human being’s performance may change for better or worse when they have an ...

The more we try to understand chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, the more we find ourselves humbled by the richness and complexity of their lives — and of their intelligence. Today, on World ...

Chimps may revise their beliefs in surprisingly human-like ways. Experiments showed they switched choices when presented with stronger clues, demonstrating flexible reasoning. Computational modeling ...

When people have an audience watching them, it can change their performance for better or worse. Now, researchers have found that chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks is influenced by the number ...