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The understanding of child development benefits from varied research approaches, including those that reflect the complexity of children's experiences across diverse and real-world contexts. This art...

About 7% of the entire population of the world’s rarest great ape are estimated to have been killed by landslides in a storm that was worsened by climate change, a new study has found.

Most behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…

Psychology; Social interaction; Social sciences

Through a series of cognitive experiments and behavioural studies with non-human primates, Jamie Whitehouse and team will identify the role that processing facial expressions has in the evolution of…

Research Assistant in Primate Cognition working with captive rhesus macaques to improve animal welfare.

In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained poorly understood, rarely observed, and difficult to study in the wild. Their f...

The autism spectrum has widened to the point of collapse, affecting how teachers should support autistic pupils in the classroom, researcher Uta Frith tells Helen Amass

Facial expressions play a central role in primate social communication, but in cognitive experiments, they are typically presented out of context and …

Facial gestures are one fundamental set of communicative behaviors in primates, generated through the dynamic arrangement of many fine muscles. Anatomy shows that facial muscles are under direct contr...

Facial expressions are produced through a coordinated system of voluntary and emotional pathways

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Intentional communication reduces social stress by increasing the predictability of conspecifics’ behaviour - Volume 48

Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates - Volume 48

Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates - Volume 48

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