When presented with multiple clues about the location of food, chimps revised their choices based only on stronger clues, indicating they were comparing the worth of pieces of information ...

The chimps who starred in "MVP" 25 years ago are long removed from wearing hockey gear, but the impacts of their show ...

Chimpanzees may be more like human thinkers than we ever imagined. A new study published in Science shows that chimpanzees ...

Sometimes, we manage to spin new information in ways that will support our belief rather than change our minds. Just watch ...

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, research shows.

Chimpanzees might be rational thinkers, capable of changing minds when presented with new information, a new study has found.

Chimpanzees show the capacity to weigh clues, track options, and change their minds when better evidence shows up.

Boffins at the University of Portsmouth carried out a series of tests and found that chimpanzees can judge the quality of ...

Researchers found that chimpanzees update their beliefs based on evidence, showing a human-like ability to reason and reflect ...

Groundbreaking research finds chimpanzees can revise their beliefs based on new evidence, revealing human-like reasoning once ...

Chimpanzees are capable of making rational decisions, much like humans, and can critically assess the quality of evidence ...

In a paper published in Science, researchers show that humans are not the only ones making decisions based on evidence, and ...