Team members
current lab members
Caitlin Tennant, MSc student
Mental stimulation: The value of cognitive enrichment
10/25 – 08/26
Clare Bartel, research assistant
Charitable behaviour in children
02/26 – 08/26
Manya Chandra, research assistant
Charitable behaviour in children
02/26 – 08/26
Dylan Rhoads, BSc student
Comparing exploration and activity rates in rats
09/25 – 05/26
Emma Hughes, MRes student
Why children give: Investigating generosity, charity, and age
09/25 – 07/26
Emmi Pinch, research assistant
Partner manipulation in rats
05/26 – 06/26
Jasmine Watts, BSc student
The consistency of attentional bias
09/25 – 07/26
Leah Koninger, BSc student
The effect of family-directed altruistic costs on oppposite-sex long-term mate preference
09/25 – 07/26
Melissa Pavez Fox, postdoctoral researcher
Origins of social competence and implications for wellbeing
08/23 – 01/27
Miguel Puentes Escamilla, PhD candidate
Social behaviour and physiology in mixed-sex group of rats
03/21 – 12/26
Nick Jones, postdoctoral researcher
Origins of social competence and implications for wellbeing
04/26 – 04/28
(Jose) Pablo Torres Campos, PhD candidate
Rat-titude of gratitude: Repaying reciprocal favours
09/24 – 09/27
Svenja Cartsburg, Research assistant
Social structures in rat groups
04/26 – 07/26
Sofiia Mamontova, research assistant
Social grooming in rats
10/25 – 10/26
key collaborators
School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St Andrews
Evolutionary origins of technical and social problem solving
Animal Behaviour, Manchester Metropolitan University
Ecology and evolution of cooperative behaviour
Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen
Self-organisation of social systems
Cognitive Science, Central European University
Perception-action links, joint action and sense of agency
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern
Evolutionary theory and reciprocal cooperation
alumni
PostDoc
08/23 – 12/25
"Origins of social competence and implications for wellbeing"
PhD
11/20 – 02/26
10/19 – 07/25
"Investigating the psychological foundations of reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats"
Dr Sadie Tenpas
"Social and cultural behaviour in non-human primates: Investigating coordination, cooperation, and cultural transmission"
MSc
09/24 – 08/25
09/23 – 08/24
09/22 – 08/23
09/21 – 08/22
10/21– 12/22
10/20 – 08/21
10/20 – 09/21
10/19 – 08/20
10/19 – 08/20
08/18 – 01/20
09/15 – 07/16
01/15 – 07/16
01/14 – 02/15
Kathryn Zhu
"(Un-) Fairness in rats"
"Look up - gaze following in rooks"
Teah Swingler
"Anticipatory behaviour as a measure of welfare in captive chimpanzees"
"The role of lip-smacking in chimpanzee cooperation"
Alexandre Torres-Ferreira (external, University of Groningen)
"Affiliation in colonies of wild-type rats "
"Conflicts and their resolutions in chimpanzees"
"Group decision-making under conditions of uncertainty"
"Emotional basis of cooperation"
"To groom or not to groom?"
“Maintenance of reciprocity in Rattus norvegicus despite multiple partners and possible alternative strategies”
“Cooperation among unrelated Norway rats”
Jonathan Aeschbacher
“Reciprocal food sharing among male Norway rats”
Dr Nina Gerber
“The role of olfactory information in a cooperative dilemma”
RA
05/25 – 03/26
05/24 – 10/24
08/23 – 08/24
11/22 – 07/24
10/22 – 05/24
05/22– 06/22
11/21 – 12/23
10/20 – 08/22
11/19 – 09/21
05/19 – 08/19
09/16 – 12/16
Philine Schütz
"Music as enrichment tool for rats"
Aashi Mestha
"Social interactions in rats"
Amy Provan
"Interpersonal synchrony and its effect on cooperating"
"Cooperative interactions in gorillas"
Emma Hughes
"Origins of cooperation"
Stella Haffner
"The masked adult effect "
"Conflicts and their resolutions in chimpanzees"
"Do children trust adults wearing masks?"
"Coordinated walking in chimpanzees"
"Social decision making in chimpanzees"
“Generalised vs. direct reciprocity”
BSc
09/24 – 05/25
09/24 – 05/25
09/24 – 05/25
09/24 – 05/25
09/23– 05/24
09/23– 05/24
09/23– 05/24
09/23– 05/24
09/23– 05/24
09/23 – 05/24
09/22 – 05/23
09/22 – 05/23
09/22 – 05/23
09/22 – 05/23
09/21 – 05/22
09/20 – 05/21
09/20 – 05/21
09/20 – 05/21
09/20 – 05/21
09/20 – 05/21
09/20 – 05/21
09/20 – 05/21
09/20 – 05/21
09/19 – 05/20
09/19 – 05/20
09/19 – 05/20
06/16 – 10/16
05/15 – 08/15
09/14 – 03/15
04/14 – 09/14
Allegra Williams
"Attachment’s role in helping behaviour across social bonds"
Glen Gow
"The effects of social media use on attention span"
Lily Hughes
"Conflict and resolution between captive chimpanzees"
Philine Schütz
"The impact of music on social behaviours in rats"
Emily Semple
"Childhood trust: The role of music"
Emirhan Dogulu
"Decoding employee reciprocity: What drives employees to reciprocate with implications for organizational strategies"
Lauren Brett
"Does rank affect the occurrence, quality, and body site preference of reciprocal grooming in chimpanzees?"
Neil McLaren
"Post-grooming behaviours in captive chimpanzees"
Stella Douglass
"Music: The role of synchrony and mood on children's cooperation"
Valerie Pei Zi Lim
"Reciprocity between companies and their employees: A study on Psychological Contract in the UK"
Amy Provan
"Interpersonal synchrony and its effect on cooperating"
Josephine Hugo
"Conflict resolution in chimpanzees"
Nina Bartakova
"The effect of clothing on trust"
Shiqi Zhang
"The urgency of helping"
Amelia Brown
"Volunteer’s Dilemma: Cooperation for public goods during Covid-19"
Danaja Kurnik
"The effect of positive affect on helping behaviour in Norway rats"
"The relationship between perception of control and perception of time"
Nadia Cumming
"Investigating rats’ understanding of human intentional actions"
Rebeka Kurnik
"Preference for cooperative conspecifics in Norway rats"
"Rapid facial mimicry in Gelada mother-infant pairs"
"Do seabirds show a preference between two musical stimuli?"
Joshua Parker
"Emotions and reciprocity"
Kyle Finnerty
"Do chimpanzees adjust steps when walking together?"
Adrienne Aboyoun
"Models of memory and cooperation"
Audrey Levesque
"Group and gender: A study on cooperation"
"The effect of friendship on resource division"
“Food sharing among Norway rats”
“Allogrooming in male Norway rats”
Jasmin Neuenschwander
“Social bonds in female Norway rats”
“Reciprocal allogrooming in Norway rats”