The Language Research Center Makes the Headlines

It's mine, I tell you
Mankind's inner chimpanzee refuses to let go. This matters to everything from economics to law.
The Economist; June 19, 2008

Ape Willpower
ScienCentral; December 4, 2007

Go forth and multiply
New research explores animals' math skills.
Monitor on Psychology; October, 2007

Animals do the most amazing things
The Psychologist (The British Psychological Society); January 10, 2008

Why Don't Chimpanzees Like To Barter Food?
ScienceDaily; February 5, 2008

Deal? No Deal, Chimps Say
LiveScience; February 4, 2008

Congratulations to Several LRC Researchers for Receiving Prestigious Awards

Megan Hoffman was awarded a Graduate Student Travel Grant Award from the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Michael Beran was invited to give the Keynote Address at the 16th Annual Student Research Conference at Southeast Missouri State University.

Timothy Flemming was awarded the 2008 APA Division 3 Young Investigator Award for the most outstanding empirical paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.

Emily Klein was awarded a 2008 CARE Imprinting-Interdivisional Mentoring Fellowship Award from the American Psychological Association.

Emily Harris Marr successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Numerical cognition in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).” Congratulations Dr. Marr!

Sarah Brosnan was awarded the Morton Deutsch award for the best paper published in the journal Social Justice Research in the year 2006. She will be given the official award at the summer meeting of the International Society for Justice Research this August.

 

Welcome New Students!

The LRC welcomes two new incoming graduate students, Megan Ahlgren and Darby Proctor.

 


 

updated summer 2008

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