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Elisabeth H. M. Sterck is affiliated with the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on primate behavior, ecology, and psychology, with an emphasis on social psychology and evolutionary biology.

Their work encompasses several domains including:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies

Sterck's publications span a variety of high-impact journals. The frequent venues for their work include:

  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Among recent papers, notable titles include:

  • "Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes" (2020), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Tolerant and intolerant macaques show different levels of structural complexity in their vocal communication" (2020), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Low relationship quality predicts scratch contagion during tense situations in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)" (2020), American Journal of Primatology
  • "FSC-certified forest management benefits large mammals compared to non-FSC" (2024), Nature
  • "Organized to learn: the influence of social structure on social learning opportunities in a group" (2021), iScience

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jan A. M. Langermans
  • Sophie Waasdorp
  • Jorg J. M. Massen
  • Marjolijn M. Vermande
  • Tom S. Roth

The academic fields in which Sterck has contributed extensively are:

  • Psychology, with a concentration in social psychology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with relevance to ecology and evolutionary biology

Best Publications

  • The evolution of female social relationships in nonhuman primates

    E.H.M. Sterck;David P. Watts;C.P. van Schaik

  • Close social associations in animals and humans : functions and mechanisms of friendship

    Jorg J. M. Massen;Elisabeth H. M. Sterck;Henk de Vos

  • Triadic postconflict affiliation in captive chimpanzees: does consolation console?

    Sonja E. Koski;Elisabeth H.M. Sterck;Elisabeth H.M. Sterck

  • Female Dominance Relationships and Food Competition in the Sympatric Thomas Langur and Long-Tailed Macaque

    Elisabeth H.M. Sterck;Romy Steenbeek

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

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

  • Generous leaders and selfish underdogs: pro-sociality in despotic macaques.

    Jorg J. M. Massen;Lisette M. van den Berg;Berry M. Spruijt;Elisabeth H. M. Sterck;Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

  • Determinants of female dispersal in Thomas langurs.

    Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

  • Reconciliation, relationship quality, and postconflict anxiety: testing the integrated hypothesis in captive chimpanzees.

    Sonja E. Koski;Kathelijne Koops;Elisabeth H.M. Sterck

  • Emotional expressions in human and non-human great apes

    Mariska E. Kret;Eliska Prochazkova;Elisabeth H.M. Sterck;Zanna Clay

  • Chimpanzees fail to plan in an exchange task but succeed in a tool-using procedure

    Valerie Dufour;Valerie Dufour;E.H.M. Sterck;E.H.M. Sterck

  • Inequity aversion in relation to effort and relationship quality in long-tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis).

    Jorg J. M. Massen;Lisette M. Van Den Berg;Berry M. Spruijt;Elisabeth H. M. Sterck;Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

  • Female dispersal, social organization, and infanticide in langurs: Are they linked to human disturbance?

    Elisabeth H. M. Sterck

  • HOW ADAPTIVE OR PHYLOGENETICALLY INERT IS PRIMATE SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR? A TEST WITH TWO SYMPATRIC COLOBINES

    Amanda H. Korstjens;Elisabeth H. M. Sterck;Ronald NOë

  • Food Competition Between Wild Orangutans in Large Fig Trees

    Sri Suci Utami;Sri Suci Utami;Serge A. Wich;Elisabeth H. M. Sterck;Jan A. R. A. M. van Hooff

  • Gaze following in monkeys is modulated by observed facial expressions

    Brigitte M.A. Goossens;Marusha Dekleva;Simon M. Reader;Elisabeth H.M. Sterck

  • Seasonal movements in the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus abelii) and consequences for conservation

    R. Buij;S.A. Wich;A.H. Lubis;E.H.M. Sterck

  • Orangutan (Pongo spp.) whistling and implications for the emergence of an open-ended call repertoire: A replication and extension

    Adriano R. Lameira;Madeleine E. Hardus;Bernd Kowalsky;Han de Vries

  • Comparing physical and social cognitive skills in macaque species with different degrees of social tolerance.

    Marine Joly;Jérôme Micheletta;Arianna De Marco;Jan A. Langermans

  • Ground‐nesting by the chimpanzees of the Nimba Mountains, Guinea: environmentally or socially determined?

    Kathelijne Koops;Tatyana Humle;Elisabeth H. M. Sterck;Tetsuro Matsuzawa

  • Measuring fruit patch size for three sympatric indonesian primate species

    S. A. Wich;G. Fredriksson;E. H. M. Sterck

  • PLAYBACKS OF LOUD CALLS TO WILD THOMAS LANGURS (PRIMATES; PRESBYTIS THOMASI): THE EFFECT OF FAMILIARITY

    S.A. Wich;P.R. Assink;F. Becher;E.H.M. Sterck

Frequent Co-Authors

Berry M. Spruijt
Berry M. Spruijt Utrecht University
Han de Vries
Han de Vries Utrecht University
Tetsuro Matsuzawa
Tetsuro Matsuzawa California Institute of Technology
Odile Petit
Odile Petit Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michael Heistermann
Michael Heistermann German Primate Center
Thomas Bugnyar
Thomas Bugnyar University of Vienna
Mariska E. Kret
Mariska E. Kret Leiden University
Albert Reijntjes
Albert Reijntjes Utrecht University
Bridget M. Waller
Bridget M. Waller Nottingham Trent University
Ronald E. Bontrop
Ronald E. Bontrop Utrecht University

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