Team members
current lab members
Allegra Williams, BSc student
Attachment’s role in helping behaviour across social bonds
09/24 – 07/25
Chanakarn Wongsaengchan, postdoctoral researcher
Origins of social competence and implications for wellbeing
08/23 – 01/27
Glen Gow, BSc student
The effects of social media use on attention span
09/24 – 07/25
Kathryn Zhu, MSc student
(Un-) Fairness in rats
09/24 – 08/25
Lily Hughes, BSc student
Conflict and resolution between captive chimpanzees
09/24 – 07/25
Louise Kandler, PhD candidate
Recollections and Reciprocity
09/24 – 09/28
Melissa Pavez-Fox, postdoctoral researcher
Origins of social competence and implications for wellbeing
08/23 – 01/27
Miguel Puentes-Escamilla, PhD candidate
Social behaviour and physiology in mixed-sex group of rats
03/21 – 03/25
(Jose) Pablo Torres Campos, PhD candidate
Rat-titude of gratitude: Repaying reciprocal favours
09/24 – 09/27
Philine Schütz, BSc student
The impact of music on social behaviours in rats
09/24 – 07/25
Sadie Tenpas, PhD candidate
Cooperation as a stabilization mechanism supporting cultural fidelity in chimpanzees
10/19 – 04/25
Sophie Harrower, PhD candidate
Understanding the evolutionary & psychological origins of reciprocal help, using rats
11/20 – 08/25
Social competence in group-living rats
09/24 – 05/25
key collaborators
School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
Evolutionary origins of technical and social problem solving
School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
Evolution and development of social cognition
Animal Behaviour, Manchester Metropolitan University
Ecology and evolution of cooperative behaviour
Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen
Self-organisation of social systems
Cognitive Science, Central European University
Perception-action links, joint action and sense of agency
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern
Evolutionary theory and reciprocal cooperation
alumni
05/24– 10/24
08/23 – 08/24
09/23 – 09/24
09/23 – 07/24
09/23 – 07/24
09/23 – 07/24
09/23 – 07/24
09/23 – 07/24
09/23 – 07/24
11/22 – 07/24
10/22 – 05/24
10/22 – 09/23
09/22 – 07/23
09/22 – 07/23
09/22 – 07/23
09/22 – 07/23
05/22 – 06/22
10/21 – 09/22
11/21 – 12/23
09/21 – 07/22
09/21 – 07/22
09/21 – 07/22
09/21 – 07/22
09/21 – 07/22
10/20 – 08/22
10/20 – 09/21
10/20 – 09/21
09/20 – 07/21
09/20 – 07/21
09/20 – 07/21
09/20 – 07/21
11/19 – 09/21
10/19 – 09/20
10/19 – 09/20
09/19 – 07/20
09/19 – 07/20
09/19 – 07/20
08/18 – 01/20
09/16 – 12/16
06/16 – 10/16
05/15 – 07/16
05/15 – 08/15
01/15 – 07/16
09/14 – 03/15
06/14 – 09/14
01/14 – 02/15
"Social interactions in rats"
Research assistant: Amy Provan
"Interpersonal synchrony and its effect on cooperating"
Master thesis: Siqi Yang
"Look up - gaze following in rooks"
Bachelor thesis: Emily Semple
"Childhood trust: The role of music"
Bachelor thesis: Emirhan Dogulu
"Decoding employee reciprocity: What drives employees to reciprocate with implications for organizational strategies"
Bachelor thesis: Lauren Brett
"Does rank affect the occurrence, quality, and body site preference of reciprocal grooming in chimpanzees?"
Bachelor thesis: Neil McLaren
"Post-grooming behaviours in captive chimpanzees"
Bachelor thesis: Stella Douglass
"Music: The role of synchrony and mood on children's cooperation"
Bachelor thesis: Valerie Pei Zi Lim
"Reciprocity between companies and their employees: A study on Psychological Contract in the UK"
"Cooperative interactions in gorillas"
Research assistant: Emma Hughes
"Origins of cooperation"
Master thesis: Teah Swingler
"Anticipatory behaviour as a measure of welfare in captive chimpanzees"
Bachelor thesis: Amy Provan
"Interpersonal synchrony and its effect on cooperating"
Bachelor thesis: Josephine Hugo
"Conflict resolution in chimpanzees"
Bachelor thesis: Nina Bartakova
"The effect of clothing on trust"
Bachelor thesis: Shiqi Zhang
"The urgency of helping"
Research assistant: Stella Haffner
"Do children trust adults wearing masks?"
Master thesis: Hannah Brown
"The role of lip-smacking in chimpanzee cooperation"
Research assistant: Alex
Backler
"Conflicts and their resolutions in chimpanzees"
Bachelor thesis: Amelia Brown
"Volunteer’s Dilemma: Cooperation for public goods during Covid-19"
Bachelor thesis: Danaja Kurnik
"The effect of positive affect on helping behaviour in Norway rats"
Bachelor thesis: Dea Dragashi
"The relationship between perception of control and perception of time"
Bachelor thesis: Nadia Cumming
"Investigating rats’ understanding of human intentional actions"
Bachelor thesis: Rebeka Kurnik
"Preference for cooperative conspecifics in Norway rats"
"Do children trust adults wearing masks?"
Master thesis: Alex Backler
"Conflicts and their resolutions in chimpanzees"
Master thesis: Danielle Van der Pant
"Group decision-making under conditions of uncertainty"
Bachelor thesis: Georgina Miller
"Rapid facial mimicry in Gelada mother-infant pairs"
Bachelor thesis: João Pedro Sobrinho Ramos
"Do seabirds show a preference between two musical stimuli?"
Bachelor thesis: Joshua Parker
"Emotions and reciprocity"
Bachelor thesis: Kyle Finnerty
"Do chimpanzees adjust steps when walking together?"
"Coordinated walking in chimpanzees"
Master thesis: Georgia Tuohy
"Emotional basis of cooperation"
Master thesis: Valeriya Rozhkova
"To groom or not to groom?"
Bachelor thesis: Adrienne Aboyoun
"Models of memory and cooperation"
Bachelor thesis: Audrey Levesque
"Group and gender: A study on cooperation"
Bachelor thesis: Csilla Pakozdy
"The effect of friendship on resource division"
Master thesis: Nina Kettler
“Maintenance of reciprocity in Rattus norvegicus despite multiple partners and possible alternative strategies”
Internship: Massimiliano Santi
“Generalised vs. direct reciprocity”
Bachelor thesis: Michelle Gygax
“Food sharing among Norway rats”
Master thesis: Dr Binia Stieger
“Cooperation among unrelated Norway rats”
Bachelor thesis: Claudio Müller
“Allogrooming in male Norway rats”
Master thesis: Jonathan Aeschbacher
“Reciprocal food sharing among male Norway rats”
Bachelor thesis: Jasmin Neuenschwander
“Social bonds in female Norway rats”
Bachelor thesis: Dr Binia Stieger
“Reciprocal allogrooming in Norway rats”
Master thesis: Dr Nina Gerber
“The role of olfactory information in a cooperative dilemma”