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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 16




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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 it’s just anthropomorphism ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 22 | with audio podcast report

Psychologists examine how race affects juvenile sentencing

When it comes to holding children accountable for crimes they commit, race matters.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

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

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (9) | comments 6

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

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

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

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

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.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has documented 149 potential sources of human error in the analy ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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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created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 12 | with audio podcast


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