Laurie Santos [personal webpage] [cv]
Laurie is the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory. She received her A.B. in Psychology and Biology from Harvard University in 1997 and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard in 2003. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology.
Faculty
Lab Manager
Linda Chang
Linda graduated from Yale University in 2012 with a B.A. in Cognitive Science. She has worked in the CapLab for three years as an undergraduate.
Primary Graduate Students
Other Graduate Affiliates
Venkat Lakshminarayanan
Venkat investigates whether monkeys share our economic biases. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 2004 and his PhD from Yale University in 2012. He is currently a post-doc in Greg McCarthy’s Human Neuroscience Lab.
Mark Sheskin
Mark graduated from the University of Miami in 2007 with a BS in Neuroscience and a BA in Philosophy and Theatre. His research interests are the intersection of philosophy and psychology, particularly in the are of moral judgements. In CapLab, he is investigating fairness behavior in monkeys.
Kristi Leimgruber
Kristi did her undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin- Madison where she double- majored in Zoology and Biological Aspects of Conservation. Before coming to Yale, she spent 3 years working at the Living Links Center in Atlanta with Dr. Frans de Waal. She is interested in the evolutionary roots of prosocial behaviors.
Post-Docs
Ellen Furlong [personal webpage] [cv]
Ellen received her B.A. in math from Transylvania University and her PhD in psychology from Ohio State University. She is interested in exploring the roots of economic decision-making.
Other Affiliates
Kirk Manson
Kirk received his B.S. from Ohio State University in 2005 and his M.A. at the University of Chicago in 2008. He is currently interested in how the unconscious mind uses information from social interactions and the environment to guide behavior and make decisions, using both comparative methods and cognitive neuroscience with Ifat Levy at the Yale School of Medicine
Alex Shaw
Alex is currently a graduate student in psychology at Yale University and is interested in how human beings navigate the complex social world by tracking others’ reputation and by signaling to others.
Lindsey Drayton
Lindsey studied psychology and primatology as an undergraduate at Duke. Prior to attending Yale, she worked at Zoo Atlanta studying great ape cognition and behavior. She is interested in social decision-making in non-human primates in order to better understand the innate biases which play a role in human moral judgements.
Alexandra Rosati [personal webpage]
Alex received her A.B. in Psychology from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology from Duke University. She is interested in comparative decision-making, the evolution of psychological skills used for foraging more generally, and the biological basis of variation in cognition.
