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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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Cognitive science reveals that policymakers should better understand how deeply our decisions are influenced by the presentation of choices.
2 min
From elaborate dancing displays to incredibly attractive armpits, the animal kingdom is full of colorful ways for males to woo mates.
3 min
There are morphological indications that we’re somewhere between a species meant to pair bond and our polygamist evolutionary relatives.
4 min
Our two closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, leave scientists puzzled over the origins of human sexual behavior.
4 min
Our ability to learn from others is crucial for the evolution of cumulative technologies, but often paralyzes our causal intuition.
6 min
Why our prejudices may be deeply ingrained in our evolutionary development.
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Why Wall Street investors may think more like monkeys than we might have imagined.