Alex Sanchez-Amaro
@alex-primate.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology
University of Stirling
University of Stirling
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#Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions #ProcB #OpenAccess #Behaiour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
June 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions #ProcB #OpenAccess #Behaiour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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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/...
Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity
is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships,
and psychology of others. Little ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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/...
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New paper from Laura Lewis and Jan Engelmann et al. (including me) with a clever new method. Chimps and kids will forgo reward to get a chance to look at social interactions
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Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little is known about the developmental and evolutionary roots ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New paper from Laura Lewis and Jan Engelmann et al. (including me) with a clever new method. Chimps and kids will forgo reward to get a chance to look at social interactions
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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#Bonobos react negatively to #inequity and are less willing to participate when they receive a worse reward than a partner. Study by Kia Radovanović, Daniel Haun, @ejcvanleeuwen.bsky.social & colleagues in @royalsocietypublishing.org. #fairness tinyurl.com/3u3w87pw & doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Bonobos react negatively to inequity
Bonobos refuse to participate when faced with unequal rewards, reinforcing the highly contentious debate about inequity aversion in animal
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April 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#Bonobos react negatively to #inequity and are less willing to participate when they receive a worse reward than a partner. Study by Kia Radovanović, Daniel Haun, @ejcvanleeuwen.bsky.social & colleagues in @royalsocietypublishing.org. #fairness tinyurl.com/3u3w87pw & doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology
www.leuphana.de
April 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
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BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
March 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
BEHOLD THE FLAGSHIP PAPER OF MY PHD! 🚢 I trained wild and zoo housed Guinea baboons to pull a lever for peanuts to test whether they monitored the foraging skills of others and used the information to inform their social choices 🧵 (1/9) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...
Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
Reposted by Alex Sanchez-Amaro
📢 Job alert: My department is advertising *two* permanent Lectureships in any area of psychology (including Origins of Mind) @ Univ of St Andrews, UK. Please circulate! #PsychSciSky #Psychology #AcademicSky #EHBEA @eslr.bsky.social
Deadline: 06/09/24 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Deadline: 06/09/24 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Lecturers in Psychology – AC2553ML
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk
July 29, 2024 at 12:23 PM
📢 Job alert: My department is advertising *two* permanent Lectureships in any area of psychology (including Origins of Mind) @ Univ of St Andrews, UK. Please circulate! #PsychSciSky #Psychology #AcademicSky #EHBEA @eslr.bsky.social
Deadline: 06/09/24 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
Deadline: 06/09/24 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...
I am very delighted for this one! here is our latest work with Dustin Eirdosh and Daniel Haun. I hope all the children around you enjoy it!!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Studying Great Apes and Cultural Diversity To Understand the Human Mind
Psychologists want to understand how the human mind is extraordinary among animal minds and where the unique aspects of human minds and behaviors come from. To build scientific understanding of human ...
kids.frontiersin.org
June 10, 2024 at 7:30 AM
I am very delighted for this one! here is our latest work with Dustin Eirdosh and Daniel Haun. I hope all the children around you enjoy it!!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Finally, something to post in Bluesky! I am happy to share our latest work with Luke Maurits and Daniel Haun in Scientific Reports. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Chimpanzees engage in competitive altruism in a triadic ultimatum game - Scientific Reports
Partner choice promotes competition among individuals to be selected as a cooperative partner, a phenomenon referred to as competitive altruism. We explored whether chimpanzees engage in competitive a...
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February 12, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Finally, something to post in Bluesky! I am happy to share our latest work with Luke Maurits and Daniel Haun in Scientific Reports. link.springer.com/article/10.1...