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Overview

Bernard Thierry is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on the psychology field, contributing extensively to subfields such as social psychology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their scholarly output spans several topics related to animal and primate behavior and ecology, animal vocal communication and behavior, as well as child and animal learning development. They have also addressed animal behavior and welfare studies, economic and technological innovation, and sustainability and ecological systems analysis in their work.

Thierry's frequent coauthors include Nancy Rebout, Arianna De Marco, Roberto Cozzolino, Andrea Sanna, and Jean-Christophe Lone.

Their research has been published in multiple venues, with a notable presence in:

  • Primates
  • Animal Cognition
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • American Journal of Biological Anthropology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Bernard Thierry are:

  • "Where do we stand with the covariation framework in primate societies?", 2021, American Journal of Biological Anthropology
  • "Measuring complexity in organisms and organizations", 2021, Royal Society Open Science
  • "Tolerant and intolerant macaques show different levels of structural complexity in their vocal communication", 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Coping with mortality: responses of monkeys and great apes to collapsed, inanimate and dead conspecifics", 2021, Ethology Ecology & Evolution
  • "Tolerant and intolerant macaques differ in the context specificity of their calls and how they 'comment' on the interactions of others", 2022, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Best Publications

  • Identification of the Social and Cognitive Processes Underlying Human Cumulative Culture

    L. G. Dean;R. L. Kendal;S. J. Schapiro;Bernard Thierry

  • Unity in Diversity: Lessons From Macaque Societies

    Bernard Thierry

  • The Influence of Phylogeny on the Social Behaviour of Macaques (Primates: Cercopithecidae, genus Macaca)

    Bernard Thierry;Andrew N. Iwaniuk;Sergio M. Pellis

  • Covariation of Conflict Management Patterns across Macaque Species

    Bernard Thierry

  • Patterns of agonistic interactions in three species of macaque (Macaca mulatta, M fascicularis, M tonkeana)

    B. Thierry

  • Macaque societies : a model for the study of social organization

    Bernard Thierry;Mewa Singh;Werner Kaumanns

  • A comparative study of conflict resolution in macaques: insights into the nature of trait covariation

    Bernard Thierry;Filippo Aureli;Charles L. Nunn;Odile Petit

  • Distributed leadership in semifree-ranging white-faced capuchin monkeys

    Jean-Baptiste Leca;Noëlle Gunst;Bernard Thierry;Odile Petit

  • Feedback loop between kinship and dominance: the macaque model.

    Bernard Thierry

  • Macaque evolution and dispersal in insular south-east Asia

    C. Abegg;B. Thierry

  • A comparative network analysis of social style in macaques

    C. Sueur;C. Sueur;O. Petit;O. Petit;O. Petit;A. De Marco;A.T. Jacobs;A.T. Jacobs;A.T. Jacobs

  • Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient networks

    Cristian Pasquaretta;Cristian Pasquaretta;Marine Levé;Marine Levé;Marine Levé;Nicolas Claidière;Erica van de Waal

  • Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) anticipation of food return: coping with waiting time in an exchange task.

    Valerie Dufour;M. Pelé;E. Sterck;Bernard Thierry

  • Primate socioecology, the lost dream of ecological determinism

    Bernard Thierry

  • Differential Functional Variability of Serotonin Transporter and Monoamine Oxidase A Genes in Macaque Species Displaying Contrasting Levels of Aggression-Related Behavior

    Jens R. Wendland;Jens R. Wendland;Klaus-Peter Lesch;Timothy K. Newman;Angelika Timme

  • Calculated reciprocity after all: computation behind token transfers in orang-utans.

    Valérie Dufour;Marie Péle;Martina Neumann;Bernard Thierry

  • Social diffusion of novel foraging methods in brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella).

    Marietta Dindo;Bernard Thierry;Andrew Whiten

  • Differential Probability of “Coproduction” in Two Species of Macaque (Macaca tonkeana, M. mulatta)

    Odile Petit;Christine Desportes;Bernard Thierry

  • A Comparative Study of Aggression and Conciliation in Three Cercopithecine Monkeys (Macaca Fuscata, Macaca Nigra, Papio Papio)

    O. Petit;C. Abegg;B. Thierry

  • Structural convergence between silent bared-teeth display and relaxed open-mouth display in the Tonkean macaque (Macaca tonkeana).

    B. Thierry;C. Demaria;S. Preuschoft;C. Desportes

  • Functional significance of behavioral, morphological, and endocrine correlates across the ovarian cycle in semifree ranging female Tonkean macaques.

    F. Aujard;M. Heistermann;B. Thierry;J. K. Hodges

  • Aggressive and peaceful interventions in conflicts in Tonkean macaques

    O. Petit;B. Thierry

  • Targets and Tactics of Play Fighting: Competitive versus Cooperative Styles of Play in Japanese and Tonkean Macaques

    Christine J. Reinhart;Vivien C. Pellis;Bernard Thierry;Claude-Anne Gauthier

  • The Social Repertoire of Sulawesi Macaques

    B. Thierry;E. L. Bynum;S. Baker;M. F. Kinnaird

  • Social networks in primates: smart and tolerant species have more efficient

    Andrew J. J. MacIntosh;Marie Pele;Mackenzie L. Bergstrom;Sarah F. Brosnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Odile Petit
Odile Petit Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Cédric Sueur
Cédric Sueur University of Strasbourg
Frans B. M. de Waal
Frans B. M. de Waal Emory University
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Gabriele Schino
Gabriele Schino Sapienza University of Rome
Lydia M. Hopper
Lydia M. Hopper Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Marina Butovskaya
Marina Butovskaya Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology
Andrew Whiten
Andrew Whiten University of St Andrews
Alain Boissy
Alain Boissy INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Bertrand Dumont
Bertrand Dumont University of Clermont Auvergne

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