SciShow Psych | Is The Mirror Test Just a Reflection of Human Nature?

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Episode Title: Is The Mirror Test Just a Reflection of Human Nature?
Produced by: SciShow Psych
Description: The mirror test is supposed to be a way to figure out when an animal is self-aware, but there might be only one particular animal this test works well on: humans. Check out the episode about fish intelligence over on the main SciShow channel: https://youtu.be/Ut6B5PVJ3hE Hosted by: Brit Garner & Stefan Chin ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/21/397067 http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/sites/default/files/pdf/class_text_023.pdf https://www.uni-trier.de/fileadmin/fb1/PHI/Hoffmann_-_Dokumente/Gordon_Gallup_-_Self-recognition_in_primates.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gordon_Gallup2/publication/227823804_Self-Awareness_and_the_Emergence_of_Mind_in_Primates/links/5b6d8b6a92851ca65054aa06/Self-Awareness-and-the-Emergence-of-Mind-in-Primates.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c03e/9ae94b08e77c9f6e1c0cd09f82df375347fb.pdf http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/rochat/Rochat5levels.pdf https://theconversation.com/how-do-children-develop-a-sense-of-self-56118 http://www.psy.cmu.edu/~rakison/Asendorpf1996.pdf http://www.animalcognition.org/2015/04/15/list-of-animals-that-have-passed-the-mirror-test/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/what-do-animals-see-in-the-mirror/516348/ https://www.pnas.org/content/98/10/5937 https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/science/brainy-dolphins-pass-the-human-mirror-test.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635701001346 https://www.pnas.org/content/103/45/17053 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2008/09/28/elephants-recognise-themselves-in-mirror/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2517622/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14552-mirror-test-shows-magpies-arent-so-bird-brained/ https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6025/a64f817d6ef770e88449d9c0dea1a7a1c952.pdf https://www.sciencealert.com/cleaner-wrasse-passes-mirror-self-recognition-test-self-awareness https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/09/fish-cleaner-wrasse-self-aware-mirror-test-intelligence-news/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/humans-are-dumb-at-figuring-out-how-smart-animals-are/ https://qz.com/1501318/the-mirror-test-for-animals-reflects-the-limits-of-human-cognition/ https://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/13Sp_PSYC_4559-003_CGAS/files/2013/01/de-veer-van-den-bos-1999.pdf http://altweb.astate.edu/electronicjournal/Articles/sp_issue_psychobio/06%20EJIBS%20Schwartz%20gorilla_Final.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02382873 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kids-and-animals-who-fail-classic-mirror/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022022110381114 https://www.popsci.com/monkey-mirror-test-self-aware#page-4 ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bluestreak_cleaner_wrasse_(Labroides_dimidiatus)_(40460962202).jpg


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