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Studies in rodents have shown that pharmacological and stress manipulations alter reward valuation, but how positive social signals shape these processes remains poorly understood. Here, we adapted the affective bias test, a translational rodent assay of affective biases in depression and antidepressant therapy, to ask whether positive social signals influence reward valuation in orangutans (Pongo spp.). We first validated the task by manipulating reward magnitude during learning and found that participants showed a significant preference for substrates previously associated with higher reward value, confirming sensitivity to reward valuation. We then tested whether play vocalizations influence reward valuation by presenting either conspecific play vocalizations or control sounds before learning reward\u2013substrate associations, with identical reward values. In subsequent preference tests, orangutans showed a significant choice bias for substrates previously associated with play vocalization recordings. 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