@JanEngelmann5

Asst. Professor of Psychology @UCBerkeley.

 Berkeley, CA
Joined June 2018
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Do animals care about fairness? Our new, preregistered meta-analysis - using data from 23 papers (thanks to all authors for sharing!) - finds no evidence for a sense of justice in nonhuman animals. Check out @oded_ritov's thread below
Oded Ritov@oded_ritov24 Jan 2023
Do animals care about fairness? Our new meta-analysis suggests they don't: "Are Nonhuman Animals Inequity Averse? A Meta-Analysis", w\ @cvoelter, @nicholaraihani, and @JanEngelmann5, out now as a pre-print: psyarxiv.com/86vkf/ 1/11
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Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information? @TownrowLuke and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
Bonobo, Nyota, at Ape Initiative, a science and education nonprofit

ALT Bonobo, Nyota, at Ape Initiative, a science and education nonprofit

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@UCBerkeley12 Dec 2024
Do animals get jealous like people? New @BerkeleyPsych research looks at years of studies into whether non-human animals have a similar sense of fairness. The answer is more nuanced than it may seem. news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/12…

Do animals get jealous like people? Researchers say it's complicated. - Berkeley News

New UC Berkeley research looks at years of studies into whether non-human animals have a similar sense of fairness. The answer is more nuanced than it may seem.

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Oded Ritov@oded_ritov2 Dec 2024
Very excited to have this published! No evidence for inequity aversion in nonhuman animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms, w/ Christoph Völter, @nicholaraihani , & @JanEngelmann5 : royalsocietypublishing.org/d…

No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms

Abstract. Disadvantageous inequity aversion (IA), a negative response to receiving less than others, is a key building block of the human sense of fairness

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So pleased to finally see this paper in print. In what we think is one of the largest meta-analyses of animal behaviour, we find no evidence for inequity aversion in nonhumans (in accept/reject paradigms). Led by @oded_ritov & with @JanEngelmann5 & Christoph Völter. 👇
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🚨Call for abstracts🚨 CO3 is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, March 26-29th 2025, and features 5- and 10-min talks, posters, the Early Career Award talk, and a Master Lecture by Professor Suzanne MacDonald. Don't miss it! Deadline: December 13, 2024.
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Jamil Zaki@zakijam17 Oct 2024
Dorsa is brilliant, kind, and fundamentally *curious* about the world and humanity. I love the way she thinks, and her lab will undoubtably become an intellectual powerhouse!
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📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition @JohnsHopkins - please RT! We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique Deadline: Dec 1 Learn more here: social-cognitive-origins.com And here: social-cognitive-origins.com… And in QT'd thread
Christopher Krupenye@ChrisKrupenye12 Sep 2021
🚨 PhD position(s) in human, nohuman primate, and dog cognition! I am thrilled to be recruiting one or more PhD students to join the new Comparative Social Cognition research group, launching next summer at @JohnsHopkins @JHUArtsSciences. 1/
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Mariam Aly@mariam_s_aly29 Jul 2024
Our attention waxes and wanes over time. How does this influence the way our memories are organized? Pupil size at encoding, an index of attention, predicts the temporal structure of subsequent memory Super proud of @manasijkumar for this work! 👀 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/bz…
Schematic of the experimental design and task measures. Participants encoded object images and make a judgment on each, while pupil diameter was monitored. After a distractor task, they recalled the objects in any order they choice.

ALT Schematic of the experimental design and task measures. Participants encoded object images and make a judgment on each, while pupil diameter was monitored. After a distractor task, they recalled the objects in any order they choice.

Plots showing recall (y-axis) as a function of the distance between objects at encoding (x-axis). Recall was more temporally organized when pupil sizes were larger (vs. smaller) at encoding. This is reflected in greater temporal contiguity and forward asymmetry effects (see paper for detail).

ALT Plots showing recall (y-axis) as a function of the distance between objects at encoding (x-axis). Recall was more temporally organized when pupil sizes were larger (vs. smaller) at encoding. This is reflected in greater temporal contiguity and forward asymmetry effects (see paper for detail).

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We are looking for two PhD students interested in cumulative culture in great apes. By using observational, experimental and computational methods, we aim to test whether precursors of human culture are present in chimpanzees and bonobos. uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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📢The DISC Lab is hiring a lab manager (flex start day)! More research info here: ashleyelizajordan.com Min salary = $44,550 w/ generous benefits: hr.wisc.edu/benefits/new-emp… Apply here by 6/17: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/research-… 👉🏾Please share widely!
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Important read @ScienceMagazine science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… ‘The constraints imposed by fieldwork are often incompatible with high publication rates, journal impact factors, and citation count’

The value of field research in academia

From anthropology to zoology, immersion within communities, cultural settings, and study systems is integral to research and learning (1, 2). Fieldwork, the direct observation and collection of data...

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Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!
Tobias Gerstenberg@tobigerstenberg22 Jan 2024
🚨 New preprint 🚨 In "Beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in causal cognition", I discuss what role counterfactual simulation plays for how people judge causation and assign responsibility. 📰 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/72…
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Rebecca Sear@RebeccaSear14 May 2024
Sarah Hrdy’s ‘Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies’ just arrived on my kindle 😊 If you’ve not read any of Hrdy’s books, then start today
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Denis Tatone@Denis_Tatone27 Apr 2024
New paper alert! 🚨 Late to sharing this, but here's a short review of a decade of work with @GCsibra on how infants represent giving, and why it matters (for event cognition and the origins of the relational mind). Thread below! 🧵👇 t.ly/S6cLw 1/15

The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social...

Giving is a unique attribute of human sharing. In this review, we discuss evidence attesting to our species’ preparedness to recognize interactions based on thi...

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Proud of this review with @AlisonGopnik ! - 'The development of human causal learning and reasoning' - now available here: rdcu.be/dFToV @NatRevPsych We review the development of human-unique causal understanding from an 'interventionist' perspective, outlining
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Great psychologist turned philosopher @marielgoddu and I wrote this review of the development of human causal learning, 20 years worth of comparative, developmental, philosophical and computational work. Empowerment included. Free to read at this link. nature.com/articles/s44159-0…
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It is happening again! Join our workshop ✨BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP✨ to learn about technological innovations to study the human and animal mind. Apply here: https:/www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/events/2024-btg2/
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Congratulations, Dorsa!!! So well-deserved. We will miss you
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I'll be looking for a post-doc to join the lab in 2025! If you might be interested, reach out (DM/ email)n so that we can chat at #CDS2024!
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I was so sad to learn that Frans de Waal has died. He put so many bold ideas out there and influenced the careers of countless scholars across biology, anthropology and psychology. Here's a lovely piece that Emory produced: news.emory.edu/features/2024…

Emory primatologist Frans de Waal remembered for bringing apes ‘a little closer to humans’

Beginning with his groundbreaking 1982 book “Chimpanzee Politics,” Frans de Waal pioneered studies of primate cognition and shattered long-held ideas about what it means to be an animal — and a human.

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