Congratulations Laurie!


       



  1. • Laurie Santos was recently named one of Popular Science’s “6th Annual Brilliant Ten!”   [Read article here]






Work on Cognitive Dissonance

•
“Monkey Do” by Yoni Brenner. The New Yorker. Dec 10, 2007. [Read article]

• “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]

  1. •“Cognitive Homeostasis.” Science. Nov 2, 2007. [Read article]
  2. •“Fooling yourself is an ancient and useful trait” by Dan Jones. New                         Scientist. Nov 2, 2007. [Read article]

  3. •“How do you justify yourself” by Dan Jones. New Scientist. Nov 1, 2007. [Read article]  

  4. •“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]

  5. •“How Choosing Changes You” by Greg Miller. Science. March 27, 2009. [
    Read article]

  6. •“SEÇİMLERİNİZ SİZİ NASIL DEĞİŞTİRİR?”. Halkın Gazetesi BirGün. April 27, 2009. [Read article]


Work on Primate Economics


• “Monkey business: Can capuchins understand money?” by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt. New York Times Magazine. June 5, 2005.  [Read article]



• “Simian economics: Monkeys show the same ‘irrational’ aversion to risks as humans.” The Economist. June 25, 2005. [Read article]




• “Money and monkey business” New Scientist. November 5, 2005    [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]


  1. •“Animal Insight” by Anne Casselman. Smithsonian Magazine. October 11, 2007. [Read article]




  3. •“The ‘Monkey Whisperer’ leans the secrets of primate economics” by Linda Marsa.  Magazine.  October 13, 2008.  [Read article]



  6. •“Affe Oeconomicus” by Hubertus Breuer. Sonntags Zeitung.  January 9, 2009.  [Read article]


  8. •“Anleger sind wie Affen” by Markus Zydra. Suddeutsche Zeitung.  January 14, 2009.  [Read article]


  1. •“Irrende Affen sind menschlich” by Hubertus Breuer. Der Standard.  January 21, 2009.  [Read article]


  1. •“Prof. speaks on illogical behavior” by Fan Zhang. The Dartmouth.  Feburary 2, 2009.  [Read article]


Work on Rhesus Monkey Theory of Mind


• “Monkeys see competitors' point of view.” New Scientist online, March 7, 2005. [Read article]


• “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.

[Read article]


• “Study finds rhesus monkeys make clever thieves” ABC News Online, March 23, 2005. [Read article]


• “Thinking like a monkey” by Jerry Adler. Smithsonian Magazine. January 2008.
Read article]


  1. •“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.

[Read article]


• “Lemurs exhibit the capacity to use tools.” Yale Scientific Magazine.

[Read article]


• “Kudos for refuge where lemurs live.” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, December 11, 2008

[Read article]



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]