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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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Scientists had to consider how primates think in order to develop the right experiments to study them.
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A conversation with the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at Yale University.
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Dr. Laurie Santos’s studies of monkey “economics” suggest that greedy, loss-averse human behavior may have deep evolutionary origins.
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What separates us from the apes may be the human tendency to nudge other humans and say, “Hey, look at this cool thing.”
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Can monkeys reason about what’s going on inside others’ heads? To find out, Dr. Laurie Santos placed them in a position to trick human researchers.
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The Yale psychologist explains why she studies human infants and adult monkeys that are so smart they’re named after James Bond characters.
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A conversation with the professor of psychology at Yale University.