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Laurie R. Santos

Laurie R. Santos

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Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
10809
World Ranking
4067
National Ranking
2276

Overview

Laurie R. Santos is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and specializes in psychology. Their work primarily focuses on various aspects of psychology, with notable contributions across subfields such as Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics including Child and Animal Learning Development, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Frequent collaborations feature several researchers with multiple joint publications, including Evan L. MacLean, Lindsey Drayton, Angie M. Johnston, Daniel J. Horschler, and Amanda Royka.

Laurie R. Santos has published research in several notable academic venues. These include:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Comparative Psychology
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among their recent papers are:

  • Knowledge before belief, 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Disentangling perceptual awareness from nonconscious processing in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Benefits of a psychoeducational happiness course on university student mental well-being both before and during a COVID-19 lockdown, 2021, Health Psychology Open
  • Do Non-Human Primates Really Represent Others' Beliefs?, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Macaque species with varying social tolerance show no differences in understanding what other agents perceive, 2021, Animal Cognition

Best Publications

  • The evolution of self-control

    Evan L. MacLean;Brian Hare;Charles L. Nunn;Elsa Addessi

  • How Basic Are Behavioral Biases? Evidence from Capuchin Monkey Trading Behavior

    M. Keith Chen;Venkat Lakshminarayanan;Laurie R. Santos

  • Rhesus Monkeys Attribute Perceptions to Others

    Jonathan I. Flombaum;Laurie R. Santos

  • The Origins of Cognitive Dissonance Evidence From Children and Monkeys

    Louisa C. Egan;Laurie R. Santos;Paul Bloom

  • Young children are more generous when others are aware of their actions.

    Kristin L. Leimgruber;Alex Shaw;Laurie R. Santos;Kristina R. Olson

  • The Evolutionary Roots of Human Decision Making

    Laurie R. Santos;Alexandra G. Rosati

  • Rhesus monkeys, Macaca mulatta, know what others can and cannot hear

    Laurie R. Santos;Aaron G. Nissen;Jonathan A. Ferrugia

  • Choice-induced preferences in the absence of choice: Evidence from a blind two choice paradigm with young children and capuchin monkeys

    Louisa C. Egan;Paul Bloom;Laurie R. Santos

  • Primate brains in the wild: the sensory bases for social interactions.

    Asif A. Ghazanfar;Laurie R. Santos

  • Capuchin monkeys are sensitive to others' welfare.

    Venkat R. Lakshminarayanan;Laurie R. Santos

  • Endowment effect in capuchin monkeys

    Venkat Lakshminaryanan;M Keith Chen;Laurie R Santos

  • The evolution of decision-making under risk: Framing effects in monkey risk preferences

    Venkat R. Lakshminarayanan;M. Keith Chen;Laurie R. Santos

  • Knowledge before belief

    Jonathan Phillips;Wesley Buckwalter;Fiery Cushman;Ori Friedman

  • Monkeys represent others’ knowledge but not their beliefs

    Drew C.W. Marticorena;April M. Ruiz;Cora Mukerji;Anna Goddu

  • The evolution of intergroup bias: perceptions and attitudes in rhesus macaques.

    Neha Mahajan;Margaret A. Martinez;Natashya L. Gutierrez;Gil Diesendruck

  • Gravity biases in a non‐human primate?

    Bruce M. Hood;Marc D. Hauser;Linda Anderson;Laurie Santos

  • What Cognitive Representations Support Primate Theory of Mind

    Alia Martin;Laurie R. Santos

  • Understanding Other Minds

    Josep Call;Laurie R. Santos

  • Psychopaths fail to automatically take the perspective of others.

    Lindsey A. Drayton;Laurie R. Santos;Arielle Baskin-Sommers

  • How monkeys see the eyes: Cotton-top tamarins' reaction to changes in visual attention and action.

    Laurie R. Santos;Marc D. Hauser

  • Probing the limits of tool competence: experiments with two non-tool-using species (Cercopithecus aethiops and Saguinus oedipus).

    Laurie R. Santos;Heather M. Pearson;Geertrui M. Spaepen;Fritz Tsao

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc D. Hauser
Marc D. Hauser Harvard University
Bruce M. Hood
Bruce M. Hood University of Bristol
Brian J. Scholl
Brian J. Scholl Yale University
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Michael L. Platt
Michael L. Platt University of Pennsylvania
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Brian Hare
Brian Hare Duke University
Alan E. Kazdin
Alan E. Kazdin Yale University
Kristina R. Olson
Kristina R. Olson University of Washington

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