Dear all,
This is a kind reminder that today Kirsten Sutherland (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) will present a talk titled "How do groups of great apes navigate social dilemmas?: PhD overview" in person.
I hope you can join us in the Psychology Common Room at 4pm. There will be chimpanzee videos!
Abstract All social animals encounter social dilemmas: situations where the best interests of the individual are in conflict with the best interests of the group. Much of the existing experimental comparative psychology work focuses dyads of NHPs, providing an incomplete picture of how group-living primates cooperate. This collection of PhD studies aims to examine what facilitates and constrains cooperation in great apes beyond dyadic interactions.
you can also join online https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e83/?url=https%3A%…<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NTliODBlNDQtMzM1MC00…>
Have a nice holiday and happy new year!
best,
Alex
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Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Dear all,
In the next (and last) BERG/SHAIR meeting of the year Kirsten Sutherland (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) will present a talk titled "How do groups of great apes navigate social dilemmas?: PhD overview"
Abstract All social animals encounter social dilemmas: situations where the best interests of the individual are in conflict with the best interests of the group. Much of the existing experimental comparative psychology work focuses dyads of NHPs, providing an incomplete picture of how group-living primates cooperate. This collection of PhD studies aims to examine what facilitates and constrains cooperation in great apes beyond dyadic interactions.
We will meet in person at 4pm Wednesday in the common room--and you can also join online https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NTliODBlNDQtMzM1MC00…
All the best,
Alex
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Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Please join me in congratulating Jade Hooper who passed her viva voce today.
Her thesis is entitled "Exploring Social Inequalities in Dog bites and Strikes Using Administrative Data Sources" and she was supervised by Paul Lambert (Faculty of Social Sciences), Tony Robertson (BES) and myself.
Jade is a regular attendee of BERG/SHAIR meetings - she used to organise them!
Congratulations directly to Jade please - jade.hooper(a)stir.ac.uk
Hannah
Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith
Professor, Behaviour and Evolution Research Group (BERG)
Psychology, Faculty of Natural Sciences
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland
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Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
Dear all,
In the next BERG/SHAIR meeting Marie Padberg, PhD student from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, will give a presentation titled "Is altercentrism WEIRD or GREAT? Insights from cross-cultural and comparative studies on the altercentric bias in false belief tasks"
The meeting will be online, but we will broadcast it from the Psychology Common Room at 4pm. Here is the abstract:
Altercentrism, meaning the effortless processing of other individuals' mental states, was long believed to be human unique. I challenge this view with two studies showing that a) the way this phenomenon is studied in WEIRD populations is not culturally universal and that b) also great apes show an altercentric bias with a similar developmental trajectory to human infants.
Teams link for the talk: Teams link https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NTliODBlNDQtMzM1MC00…
Also, apologies for a mistake I made. Yesterday I forgot to record Zsuzsa Lugosi's talk.
best,
Alex
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Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159
