News tagged with comparative psychologist
Talk to the animals (w/ video)
When African Grey parrots talk, do they mimic sounds or consciously understand their speech? Irene Pepperberg, a comparative psychologist at both Brandeis and Harvard universities believes African Greys actually ...
May 02, 2011 |
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Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Nonhuman Animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional ...
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New research suggests apes have human-like personalities
(Phys.org) -- For as long as people have coexisted with other animals, they have debated amongst themselves whether some animals have some of the same personality traits as humans or if its just anthropomorphism ...
Psychologists examine how race affects juvenile sentencing
When it comes to holding children accountable for crimes they commit, race matters.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 24, 2012 |
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Book sharing could boost prospects of world's poorest children
Teaching parents how to share books with their infants could have a dramatic effect on improving literacy rates in developing countries, University of Reading researchers have found.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 17, 2012 |
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Female terrorists' bios belie stereotypes, study finds
Much like their male counterparts, female terrorists are likely to be educated, employed and native residents of the country where they commit a terrorist act, according to new research published by the American Psychological ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 15, 2012 |
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Unconscious racial attitudes playing large role in 2012 presidential vote
After the 2008 election of President Barack Obama, many proclaimed that the country had entered a post-racial era in which race was no longer an issue. However, a new large-scale study shows that racial attitudes have already ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 07, 2012 |
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Can a machine tell when you're lying? Research suggests the answer is 'yes'
Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Self-reflective mind: Psychologists report on continuing advances in animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition -- that ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Personality change key to improving well-being
People's personalities can change considerably over time, say scientists, suggesting that leopards really can change their spots.
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Experts recommend measures to reduce human error in fingerprint analysis
A new report by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Justices National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has documented 149 potential sources of human error in the analy ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Out of Africa? Data fail to support language origin in Africa
Last year, a report claiming to support the idea that the origin of language can be traced to West Africa appeared in Science. The article caused quite a stir. Now linguist Michael Cysouw from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Mun ...
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Feb 15, 2012 |
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