The Cebus lab is interested in mechanisms underlying cooperation, reciprocity, inequity, and other economic decisions in nonhuman primates from an evolutionary perspective. This includes, but is not limited to, questions of what decisions individuals make and how they make these decisions, how their social or ecological environments affect their decisions and interactions, and under what circumstances they can alter their behaviors contingent upon these inputs.
Most of our reseach is conducted with the chimpanzees and capuchins at the Language Research Center. In addition, some of our research is collected with the chimpanzees at the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research of the UT/MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Please explore our other research pages to find out about specific research projects.