Asst. Professor of Psychology @UCBerkeley.
Joined June 2018
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24 Jan 2023
Do animals care about fairness? Our new, preregistered meta-analysis - using data from 23 papers (thanks to all authors for sharing!) - finds no evidence for a sense of justice in nonhuman animals. Check out @oded_ritov's thread below
24 Jan 2023
Do animals care about fairness? Our new meta-analysis suggests they don't: "Are Nonhuman Animals Inequity Averse? A Meta-Analysis", w\ @cvoelter, @nicholaraihani, and @JanEngelmann5, out now as a pre-print: psyarxiv.com/86vkf/ 1/11
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3 Feb 2025
Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information?
@TownrowLuke and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly @PNASNews
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
ALT Bonobo, Nyota, at Ape Initiative, a science and education nonprofit
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12 Dec 2024
Do animals get jealous like people? New @BerkeleyPsych research looks at years of studies into whether non-human animals have a similar sense of fairness. The answer is more nuanced than it may seem. news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/12…
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2 Dec 2024
Very excited to have this published! No evidence for inequity aversion in nonhuman animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms, w/ Christoph Völter, @nicholaraihani , & @JanEngelmann5 : royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
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27 Nov 2024
So pleased to finally see this paper in print. In what we think is one of the largest meta-analyses of animal behaviour, we find no evidence for inequity aversion in nonhumans (in accept/reject paradigms). Led by @oded_ritov & with @JanEngelmann5 & Christoph Völter. 👇
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15 Oct 2024
🚨Call for abstracts🚨 CO3 is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, March 26-29th 2025, and features 5- and 10-min talks, posters, the Early Career Award talk, and a Master Lecture by Professor Suzanne MacDonald. Don't miss it! Deadline: December 13, 2024.
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17 Oct 2024
Dorsa is brilliant, kind, and fundamentally *curious* about the world and humanity.
I love the way she thinks, and her lab will undoubtably become an intellectual powerhouse!
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14 Oct 2024
📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition @JohnsHopkins - please RT!
We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique
Deadline: Dec 1
Learn more here: social-cognitive-origins.com
And here: social-cognitive-origins.com…
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12 Sep 2021
🚨 PhD position(s) in human, nohuman primate, and dog cognition!
I am thrilled to be recruiting one or more PhD students to join the new Comparative Social Cognition research group, launching next summer at @JohnsHopkins @JHUArtsSciences. 1/
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29 Jul 2024
Our attention waxes and wanes over time. How does this influence the way our memories are organized?
Pupil size at encoding, an index of attention, predicts the temporal structure of subsequent memory
Super proud of @manasijkumar for this work! 👀
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/bz…
ALT Schematic of the experimental design and task measures. Participants encoded object images and make a judgment on each, while pupil diameter was monitored. After a distractor task, they recalled the objects in any order they choice.
ALT Plots showing recall (y-axis) as a function of the distance between objects at encoding (x-axis). Recall was more temporally organized when pupil sizes were larger (vs. smaller) at encoding. This is reflected in greater temporal contiguity and forward asymmetry effects (see paper for detail).
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22 Jul 2024
We are looking for two PhD students interested in cumulative culture in great apes. By using observational, experimental and computational methods, we aim to test whether precursors of human culture are present in chimpanzees and bonobos.
uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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3 Jun 2024
📢The DISC Lab is hiring a lab manager (flex start day)!
More research info here: ashleyelizajordan.com
Min salary = $44,550 w/ generous benefits: hr.wisc.edu/benefits/new-emp…
Apply here by 6/17: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/research-…
👉🏾Please share widely!
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29 May 2024
Important read @ScienceMagazine
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
‘The constraints imposed by fieldwork are often incompatible with high publication rates, journal impact factors, and citation count’
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21 May 2024
Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!
22 Jan 2024
🚨 New preprint 🚨
In "Beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in causal cognition", I discuss what role counterfactual simulation plays for how people judge causation and assign responsibility.
📰 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/72…
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14 May 2024
Sarah Hrdy’s ‘Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies’ just arrived on my kindle 😊 If you’ve not read any of Hrdy’s books, then start today
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27 Apr 2024
New paper alert! 🚨
Late to sharing this, but here's a short review of a decade of work with @GCsibra on how infants represent giving, and why it matters (for event cognition and the origins of the relational mind).
Thread below! 🧵👇
t.ly/S6cLw
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Proud of this review with @AlisonGopnik ! -
'The development of human causal learning and reasoning'
- now available here: rdcu.be/dFToV @NatRevPsych
We review the development of human-unique causal understanding from an 'interventionist' perspective, outlining
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29 Apr 2024
Great psychologist turned philosopher @marielgoddu and I wrote this review of the development of human causal learning, 20 years worth of comparative, developmental, philosophical and computational work. Empowerment included. Free to read at this link. nature.com/articles/s44159-0…
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5 Apr 2024
It is happening again!
Join our workshop
✨BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP✨
to learn about technological innovations to study the human and animal mind.
Apply here: https:/www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/events/2024-btg2/
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26 Mar 2024
Congratulations, Dorsa!!! So well-deserved. We will miss you
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19 Mar 2024
I'll be looking for a post-doc to join the lab in 2025! If you might be interested, reach out (DM/ email)n so that we can chat at #CDS2024!
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17 Mar 2024
I was so sad to learn that Frans de Waal has died. He put so many bold ideas out there and influenced the careers of countless scholars across biology, anthropology and psychology. Here's a lovely piece that Emory produced: news.emory.edu/features/2024…
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