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Laurie Santos
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University
Dr. Laurie Santos is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Her research provides an interface between evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, exploring the evolutionary origins of the human mind by comparing the cognitive abilities of human and non-human primates. Her experiments focus on non-human primates (in captivity and in the field), incorporating methodologies from cognitive development, animal learning psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.
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Other primates don’t seem to share their own desires and intentions with others, which leads to a lack of cooperation in a lot of domains.