Audrey Parrish

I am a graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. program at Georgia State University with Dr. Sarah Brosnan. I am currently investigating cooperative behavior in several primate species at the Language Research Center, with a primary focus on capuchin monkeys. My research interests include the investigation of social behavior using tool-use tasks, economic game theory via exchange tasks, and computerized cooperative tasks. Within these different approaches, I am interested in how the task contingencies affect the decision-making behind a cooperative interaction. My previous research at Winthrop University focused on habitat utilization and resource partitioning of nine different primate species in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest during the dry season.

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Parrish, A. E., & Brosnan, S. F. (in review). Active prosocial behavior between capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) for tools but not food in a cooperative tool-use task.

Parrish, A. E., & Brosnan, S. F. (in review). Primate Cognition. in The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior. Elsevier.

Brosnan S.F., Parrish A.E., Beran M.J., Flemming T., Heimbauer L., Talbot C. F., Lambeth S.P., Schapiro S.J., & Wilson B.J. (2011). Responses to the Assurance game in monkeys, apes, and humans using equivalent procedures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 108, 3442-3447.