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August 15, 2011
Max Brockman’s newest book of essays features Laurie Santos’ work on irrational decision making in capuchins. Read article about the book here
Laurie Santos gives talk at the APS 23rd Annual Convention
May, 2011
Laurie Santos was invited to give a talk at the Presidential Symposium at the 23rd Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. Read article here
Monkey Business in The Monkey Issue
An article by Allen St. John explores how a research team led by Laurie Santos demonstrated both the rational and irrational ways capuchin monkeys utilize a financial market. Read article here
Evolution of prejudice: Study reveals racism in MONKEYS
April 10, 2011
A team of researchers led by Neha Mahajan PhD’11 found evidence of prejudices in rhesus macaques. Read article here
Congratulations Laurie!
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•Laurie Santos was an invited speaker at TEDGlobal 2010 [Watch]
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• Laurie was recently named one of Popular Science’s “6th Annual Brilliant Ten!” [Read article here]
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Laurie talks about her work on Big Think. Big Think, Feb 9, 2010 and July 2, 2010 [Watch Video]/[Watch Video]
Watch students talk about their work at the Cayo Santiago field site. [Watch Video]
Interested in Laurie’s “Secret Life?” Nova. Dec 8, 2009. [Watch Video]
Watch Laurie discuss “How evolution explains human nature.” Discover Magazine, September 24, 2009 [Watch video]
• “Go Ahead, Rationalize. Monkeys Do It, Too” by John Tierney. The New York Times. Nov 6, 2007. [Read article]
• “Even monkeys rationalize, study finds.” World Science. Nov 6, 2007. [Read article]
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•“Fooling yourself is an ancient and useful trait” by Dan Jones. New Scientist. Nov 2, 2007. [Read article]
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•“How do you justify yourself” by Dan Jones. New Scientist. Nov 1, 2007. [Read article]
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•“Pride and Preferences - Or How We Live With Our Decisions” by Dan Jones. The Proper Study of Mankind: A blog on evolution, philosophy, and human nature. Oct 23, 2007. [Read article]
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•“SEÇİMLERİNİZ SİZİ NASIL DEĞİŞTİRİR?”. Halkın Gazetesi BirGün. April 27, 2009. [Read article]
Work on Primate Economics
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•Listen to Laurie on ideaTALK radio. January 20, 2011 [link]
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•“How can a smart species be so dumb?” CNN.com. July 16, 2010. [Read article]
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•“The evolutionary origins of irrationality explored” Wired.co.uk. July 14, 2010. [Read article]
• “Verhaltensforschung: Affen als kleinsparer” Der Spiegel. June 27th, 2005. [Read article]
• “Monkeys ape humans' economic traits” The Yale Bulletin, July 2005. [Read article]
• “Monkey money” The American Psychological Society Observer, Volume 18. July 2005. [Read article]
• “Now for Some Real Monkey Business: Money-hungry capuchins are helping explain human behaviors” Health Day, August 15, 2005. [Read article]
• “Spend like a monkey” National Wildlife Magazine, Volume 43, October/November 2005. [Read article]
• “Mind over money: Behavioral research may explain why people spend and save the way they do” Boston Globe, December 19, 2005. [Read article]
• “Primate economics.” Forbes. February, 14, 2006. [Read article]
• “Behavioral economists try to unravel human mysteries.” New England Psychologist. April 2006. [Read article]
• “Comparative Cognition: A Look into the Minds of Monkeys” Yale Scientific Magazine. Fall 2006. [Read article]
• “Monkey business: human nature with a twist” The Yale Herald. February 2, 2007. [Read article]
• “Similarities between chimps and humans” by David Pescovitz. Boing Boing: A directory of wonderful things. October 30, 2007. [Read article]
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•“Animal Insight” by Anne Casselman. Smithsonian Magazine. October 11, 2007. [Read article]
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•“The ‘Monkey Whisperer’ leans the secrets of primate economics” by Linda Marsa. Magazine. October 13, 2008. [Read article]
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•“Affe Oeconomicus” by Hubertus Breuer. Sonntags Zeitung. January 9, 2009. [Read article]
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•“Anleger sind wie Affen” by Markus Zydra. Suddeutsche Zeitung. January 14, 2009. [Read article]
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•“Irrende Affen sind menschlich” by Hubertus Breuer. Der Standard. January 21, 2009. [Read article]
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•“Prof. speaks on illogical behavior” by Fan Zhang. The Dartmouth. Feburary 2, 2009. [Read article]
Work on Rhesus Monkey Theory of Mind
• “That monkeys can read your mind.” Discovery News, March 7, 2005. [Read article]
• “Monkey see, monkey think: Grape thefts instigate debate on primate's mind” Science News. March 12, 2005.
• “Study finds rhesus monkeys make clever thieves” ABC News Online, March 23, 2005. [Read article]
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•“Do monkeys have a theory of mind?” by David Pescovitz. Boing Boing: A directory of wonderful things. December 31, 2007. [Read article]
• “Humanos y monos, ¿quién estudia a quién?” by Tatiana Rodríguez. Dialogo Digital. April 17, 2009. [Read article and watch video]
Work on Lemur Cognition
• “Who will save the lemurs”
ABC World New Tonight, February 9, 2005 [Read article and watch video]
• “Lemurs make Manatee County home.” Brandenton Herald, February 14, 2005. [Read article]
• “1+1 = evolution” Yale Alumni Magazine, May/June 2005. [Read article]
• “Lemur preserve thriving in southwest Florida.”
The Florida Sun Sentinal, March 5, 2005.
• “Lemurs exhibit the capacity to use tools.” Yale Scientific Magazine.
• “Kudos for refuge where lemurs live.” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December 11, 2008
CapLab Member News
• Caplabber Jennifer Barnes wins the PsiChi Summer Research Grant! [Read Bio]
• Yale Scientific Magazine Profiles CabLabber Jennifer Barnes! [Read article]
• Caplabber Maya Shankar named one of Glamour’s “Top 10 College Women!” [Read Glamour Article] [see Yale Bulletin Article]
• Caplabber Maya Shankar wins a Rhodes Scholarship! [Read article]
