How do animals make informed social decisions ?
Education2016 Joint PhD., Biological Anthropology & Biopsychology, University of Michigan,
2012 MA, Biological Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2012 2007 BS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University |
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Emory broadlyinterested in the evolution of primate social cognition, the mechanisms that influence social choices, and the context in which these decisions are adaptive.
My work unpacks both proximate and ultimate mechanisms of social decision-making in primates, offering a promising avenue for understanding the importance of sociality, cooperation, and conflict on primate cognitive evolution. I co-direct a long-term field project, Capuchins de Taboga, on the cognition and behavior of wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) in the Guanacaste Region of Costa Rica and continue my affiliation at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University where I study the mechanisms of social choices in captive tufted capuchins (Sapajus apella). 
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Contact InformationDepartment of Anthropology
Emory University 1557 Dickey Drive Atlanta, GA 30322 email: m[email protected] |
FundingMy research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Leakey Foundation, and the Tempelton World Foundation
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