A5025991720- Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Health Services Management and Policy
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Research in Social Sciences
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Education Systems and Policy
- Science, Research, and Medicine
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Disaster Response and Management
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Irish and British Studies
Nottingham Trent University
2020-2025
Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives
2021
University of Portsmouth
2013-2020
Université de Strasbourg
2020
Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives
2020
University of Warwick
2003
There is widespread acceptance that facial expressions are useful in social interactions, but empirical demonstration of their adaptive function has remained elusive. Here, we investigated whether macaques can use the others to predict future outcomes interaction. Crested (Macaca nigra) were shown an approach between two unknown individuals on a touchscreen and required choose one potential outcomes. The actors manipulated last frame video. One subject reached experimental stage accurately...
Providing cognitive challenges to zoo-housed animals may provide enriching effects and subsequently enhance their welfare. Primates benefit most from such as they often face complex problems in natural environment can be observed seek problem solving opportunities captivity. However, the extent which welfare benefits achieved through programmes developed primarily for research is unknown. We tested impact of voluntary participation testing on a socially housed group crested macaques (Macaca...
Abstract A wealth of experimental and observational evidence suggests that faces have become increasingly important in the communication system primates over evolutionary time both static moveable aspects convey considerable information. Therefore, whenever there is a visual component to any multicomponent signal face potentially relevant. However, role not always considered primate research. We review literature make case for greater focus on going forward. propose can be overlooked two...
Abstract Individuals vary in how they move their faces everyday social interactions. In a first large-scale study, we measured variation dynamic facial behaviour during interaction and examined dyadic outcomes impression formation. Study 1, recorded semi-structured video calls with 52 participants interacting confederate across various contexts. Video clips were rated by 176 independent participants. 2, of 1315 engaging unstructured video-call Facial expressivity indices extracted using...
There is a vast and ever-accumulating amount of behavioural data on individually recognised animals, an incredible resource to shed light the ecological evolutionary drivers variation in animal behaviour. Yet, full potential such lies comparative research across taxa with distinct life histories ecologies. Substantial challenges impede systematic comparisons, one which lack persistent, accessible standardised databases. Big-team approaches building databases offer solution facilitating...
Cooperation is so deeply embedded in human psychology that we spontaneously track a partner’s task as well our own when acting pair. This automatic ‘co-representation’ of mental representation their has been argued to be key the sophisticated social coordination see adults. However, day-to-day encounters are not limited one-to-one interactions. first published study investigate co-representation groups, with results from group Joint Simon suggesting may break down groups larger than two....
Abstract Facial expression is a key component of primate communication, and primates (including humans) have complex system facial musculature underpinning this behavior. Human highly variable across individuals, but to date, whether other species exhibit similar level inter‐individual variation unknown. Whether individual‐level in covaries with significant differences movement within the same individual also Here, we use dissection data from 31 adult rhesus macaques, largest sample quantify...
Human and non-human primates exhibit facial movements or displays to communicate with one another. The evolution of form function those could be better understood through multispecies comparisons. Anatomically based coding systems (Facial Action Coding Systems: FACS) are developed enable such comparisons because they standardized systematic aid identification homologous expressions underpinned by similar muscle contractions. To date, FACS has been for humans, subsequently modified...
Social living affords primates (including humans) many benefits. Communication has been proposed to be the key mechanism used bond social connections, which could explain why have evolved such expressive faces. We assessed whether facial expressivity of dominant male (quantified from coding anatomically based movement) was related network properties (based on proximity and grooming) in nine groups captive rhesus macaques (
Scientists are increasing their efforts to promote public engagement with science, but the efficacy of methods used is often not scientifically evaluated. Here, we designed, installed and evaluated educational impact interactive games on touchscreens at two primate research centres based in zoo environments. The were designed interest understanding primates comparative psychology, as a scaffold towards science more generally intention targeting younger individuals (under 16's). We systematic...
Abstract Complex societies are shaped by social relationships between multiple individuals. The pressure to track these has driven the evolution of cognition in primates. Importantly, it can be adaptive not only personal relationships, but also those established third-parties. Primates have knowledge about others’ dominance hierarchies and kinship, we do know what extent they understand friendships. In a playback experiment, Tonkean macaques were presented with simulated conflicts involving...
Guilt is a complex emotion with potentially important social function of stimulating cooperative behaviours towards and from others, but whether the feeling guilt associated recognisable pattern nonverbal behaviour unknown. We examined production perception in two different studies, total 238 participants various places origin. was induced experimentally, eliciting patterns movement that were both participants' self-reported feelings judges' impressions their guilt. most closely frowning...
Physiological and psychological stress are accompanied by nonverbal behaviour across a wide range of species. The function this 'stress behaviour' is not well understood but often assumed to be read others as cue stress. Displaying signs weakness is, however, difficult understand from an evolutionary perspective therefore further investigation into why these behaviours exist needed. Here, we test whether displacement (i.e., those known associated with stress) reliable indicators in humans....
Primates (including humans) scratch when stressed. So far, such scratching has been seen as a by-product of physiological processes associated with stress, and attributed proximate, regulatory function. However, it is possible that others could use this relationship between stress an indication the animal's state, thus potentially have social As test theory, we measured production of, responses to in group free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Firstly, found likelihood was greater...
Facial expressions have long been proposed to be important agents in forming and maintaining cooperative interactions social groups. Human beings are inordinately when compared with their closest-living relatives, the great apes, hence one might expect species differences facial expressivity contexts which cooperation could advantageous. Here, human children chimpanzees were given an identical task designed induce element of frustration (it was impossible solve). In children, but not...
Many species use facial features to identify conspecifics, which is necessary navigate a complex social environment. The fundamental mechanisms underlying face processing are starting be well understood in variety of primate species. However, most studies focus on limited subset tested with unfamiliar faces. As as limiting our understanding how widely distributed across these skills are, this also limits primates process faces individuals they know, and whether factors (e.g. dominance bonds)...
Darwin and other pioneering scholars made comparisons between human facial signals those of non-human primates, suggesting they share evolutionary history. We now have tools available (Facial Action Coding System: FACS) to make these anatomically based standardised, as well analytical methods facilitate comparative studies. Here we review the evidence establishing a shared anatomical basis behaviour primate species, concluding which are likely related, not. then for function discuss...
Humans are uniquely cooperative and form crucial short- long-term social bonds between individuals that ultimately shape human societies. The need for such intense cooperation may have provided a particularly powerful selection pressure on the emotional communicative behaviours regulating processes, as guilt. Guilt is social, other-oriented moral emotion promotes relationship repair pro-sociality. For example, people can be more lenient towards wrongdoers who display guilt than those do not....