New article out exploring great ape name recognition! We find partial evidence that zoo-living chimps & bonobos know each other's names 👀 Huge thanks to Animal Behavior and Cognition (a great open-access journal) & co-authors for your collaboration!🎉🐵
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These studies comparing social curiosity in chimpanzees & children were completed with the help of an amazing team including @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social, @estherherrmann.bsky.social, @rachnare.bsky.social, @Oded Ritov and @Alex Sanchez-Amaro. Can't wait to share our results!
Hi friends! Tomorrow at 9 am PT/12 pm ET/6 pm CET I'll be presenting a Proceedings B Ecology and Evolution Seminar about my recently published paper: Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions 🥳 Tune in to learn more about comparative curiosity! cassyni.com/events/R9W1m...
If you enjoyed our recent essay on names in the animal kingdom, you might be interested in this new paper!
(by former guests @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social and @chriskrupenye.bsky.social, among others)
Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Had a wonderful Theory of Mind Symposium at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference! Thank you so much to our invited speakers for sharing their expertise, visiting the LRC, and being mediocre gaze-followers! @chriskrupenye.bsky.social @kristinandrews.bsky.social
New paper just dropped🎉 With novel "Curiosity Boxes", we find that chimps & children are very curious about social interactions, & some even give up a reward to gain info! Fun collaboration with @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social & others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3
New paper in Open Mind, with @emmayu23.bsky.social, Megan Richardson, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that by 6 years of age, children think that close friends know the content of each other’s minds.
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