Comparative Economics →
/Economic games derived from experimental economics provide opportunities to better understand how and why individuals make the decisions that they do.
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The Evolution of Cooperation →
/How did the ability to coordinate with other individuals arise, and what prevents success in those situations in which it breaks down?
Read MoreThe Evolution of Fairness →
/We have found evidence that several primate species respond negatively if they receive a less good reward than a social partner for completing the same task.
Read MoreThe Evolution of Property →
/Just because most species of nonhuman primates do not frequently maintain property does not mean that they lack the propensity to do so. Recent research from my lab has shed light on primates' concepts of property.
Read MoreThe Evolution of Prosocial Behavior →
/We are investigating how young children and nonhuman primates behave when they have an opportunity to assist another individual, and how their behavior changes when opportunities to help themselves by being prosocial are included.
Read MoreSocial Influences on Decision-Making →
/My lab studies different aspects of social decision-making, which allows us to gain a full understanding of the evolution of decision-making.
Read MoreComparative Cognition →
/What has driven the need for humans’ advanced cognitive abilities? To gain insight into our own cognitive evolution, we can look to our closest living ancestors, the non-human primates.
Read MoreBehavioral Endocrinology →
/We can learn a lot about the mechanisms underlying behaviors by studying their hormonal correlates.
Read MoreEcological Influences on Decision-Making →
/We are interested in how ecology shapes cognition such that even species with very small brains can outperform species with very large brains on decision-making tasks derived from the smaller-brained species’ ecology.
Read MoreSocial Learning →
/I also have a longstanding interest in the degree to which subjects can learn from watching others, and the limits of this behavior.
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