Rosie completed her PhD!
Congratulations to Dr. Bettle for a great defense talk on her research, entitled “The evolution of social intelligence in macaques.”
Rosie completed her PhD! Read More »
Congratulations to Dr. Bettle for a great defense talk on her research, entitled “The evolution of social intelligence in macaques.”
Rosie completed her PhD! Read More »
Huge congrats to Megan Mulhinch, who will be starting her PhD in Psychology at UC San Diego, and to Francesca De Petrillo who will be starting her own research group as a Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University!
Congrats to Megan and Francesca! Read More »
UM’s 2021 Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend Read More »
Our inaugural Primate Cognition and Behavior Internship, in partnership with the Cayo Santiago Field Station and the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, wrapped up this week with an amazing series of presentations from our first class of undergraduate interns! Thanks to all the interns, science mentors, and special guests who made this internship possible. Til next year!
Inaugural Primate Internship Science Symposium Read More »
Rosie Bettle, Yiyun Huang, and Megan Mulhinch from the Cognitive Evolution Group, together with collaborating student Alexis Diaz from the Quantitative Ecology Lab at CSU Long Beach and Scientific Director Dr. Alyssa Arre, have been working to refresh the computer lab at Cayo. Check it out and stay tuned for more improvements!
Revitalizing the Cayo Santiago Field Station computer room! Read More »
Our inaugural internship, in partnership with the Cayo Santiago Field Station and the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, kicked off remotely in June. Stay tuned for more news about our interns’ research projects!
2021 Primate Cognition and Behavior Internship Read More »
Check out this new collaborative website with games, activities, learning modules, research multi-media, and more focused on primates! Content on this website covers primate behavior, cognition, and conservation, aiming to making this information accessible for groups ranging from parents and children to professional scientists.
New primate educational website: Primate Learning in Action Read More »
Check out a recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B on primate economics. The issue includes three contributions from Francesca, including our recent paper on risk preferences across primates.
Special issue on economic decision-making in primates Read More »
Our work on chimpanzee social aging, conducted with the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, is featured on the cover of Science magazine! Read the article here.
Cognitive Evolution Group research on the cover of Science! Read More »
A special issue on primate aging edited by Alex, Melissa Emery Thompson, and Noah Snyder-Macker is out! Check out the issue here.
Special issue on the evolution of aging out at Philosophical Transactions Read More »
UM’s 2020 Psychology Diversity Recruitment Weekend Read More »
Congrats to Averill for receiving a fellowship from University of Michigan’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Developmental Psychology Training Grant for her work on comparative cognitive development the 2020-2021 year!
Averill receives developmental psychology fellowship Read More »
Paru presented her honors thesis research (done in collaboration with her co-mentors Averill and Francesca) on the links between temperament and cognitive flexibility in lemurs.
Paru presents her thesis research! Read More »
Rosie was recently awarded a grant from the Leakey Foundation to carry out her PhD research on the evolution of social intelligence in macaques. Stay turned for new data on social cognition and social behavior across the Barbary macaques of Trentham Monkey Forest the the rhesus macaques of Cayo Santiago. Congrats Rosie!
Rosie awarded Leakey Foundation Grant! Read More »
Rosie recently presented her research on monkey social cognition at the Cognitive Development Society meeting. Congrats Rosie!
Rosie at Cognitive Development Society Read More »