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Overview

Susan Perry is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to social psychology and the ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics of primates. Their work also spans developmental biology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sociology and political science.

The principal topics covered in their research include:

  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

Susan Perry's recent papers demonstrate a focus on primate behavior and cultural evolution. Selected publications include:

  • "The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Maternal death and offspring fitness in multiple wild primates" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Not by transmission alone: the role of invention in cultural evolution" (2021), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Behavioural variation and learning across the lifespan in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals" (2023), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Anne E. Pusey, Karen B. Strier, Irene Godoy, Marina Cords, and Richard R. Lawler. Susan Perry has published extensively in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • American Journal of Primatology
  • Nature Communications

The balance of publications shows a mix of empirical primate research and theoretical contributions to understanding social and cultural behavioral evolution. Susan Perry's work intersects multiple disciplines related to behavior, ecology, and psychology, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of primate social systems and cognitive development.

Best Publications

  • Animal social complexity : intelligence, culture, and individualized societies

    F. B. M. de Waal;Peter L. Tyack

  • Social conventions in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys - Evidence for traditions in a neotropical primate

    Susan Perry;Mary Baker;Linda M Fedigan;Julie Gros-Louis

  • The Biology of Traditions : Models and Evidence

    Dorothy M. Fragaszy;Susan Perry

  • Female‐female social relationships in wild white‐faced capuchin monkeys, Cebus capucinus

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  • The Complete Capuchin

    Susan Perry

  • Cross-site differences in foraging behavior of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus).

    Melissa A. Panger;Susan Perry;Lisa M. Rose;Julie Gros-Louis

  • Social traditions and social learning in capuchin monkeys (Cebus)

    Susan Perry

  • Leadership in Mammalian Societies: Emergence, Distribution, Power, and Payoff

    Jennifer E. Smith;Sergey Gavrilets;Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Paul L. Hooper

  • Nonconceptive Sexual Behavior in Bonobos and Capuchins

    Joseph H. Manson;Joseph H. Manson;Susan Perry;Amy R. Parish;Amy R. Parish;Amy R. Parish

  • Kin-biased social behaviour in wild adult female white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus

    Susan Perry;Susan Perry;Joseph H. Manson;Joseph H. Manson;Laura Muniz;Julie Gros-Louis

  • Coalitions in theory and reality: a review of pertinent variables and processes

    Annie Bissonnette;Annie Bissonnette;Susan Perry;Louise Barrett;Louise Barrett;John C. Mitani

  • White-faced capuchin monkeys show triadic awareness in their choice of allies

    Susan Perry;H. Clark Barrett;Joseph H. Manson

  • Towards a Biology of Traditions

    Dorothy M. Fragaszy;Susan Perry

  • Violent coalitionary attacks and intraspecific killing in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys ( Cebus capucinus )

    Julie Gros-Louis;Susan Perry;Joseph H. Manson

  • Pay-off-biased social learning underlies the diffusion of novel extractive foraging traditions in a wild primate.

    Brendan J. Barrett;Richard L. McElreath;Susan E. Perry

  • Traditions in monkeys

    Susan Perry;Joseph H. Manson

  • Interspecific Interactions Between Cebus capucinus and other Species: Data from Three Costa Rican Sites

    Lisa M. Rose;Susan Perry;Melissa A. Panger;Katharine Jack

  • Time-matched grooming in female primates?: New analyses from two species

    Joseph H. Manson;C. David Navarrete;Joan B. Silk;Susan Perry

  • Begging and transfer of coati meat by white-faced capuchin monkeys,Cebus capucinus

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  • Traditions in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys

    Susan Perry;Melissa Panger;Lisa M Rose;Mary Baker

  • Conformism in the food processing techniques of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus)

    Susan Perry

  • Vocal Repertoire of Cebus capucinus: Acoustic Structure, Context, and Usage

    Julie J. Gros-Louis;Susan E. Perry;Claudia Fichtel;Eva Wikberg

  • Alarm calls of white-faced capuchin monkeys: an acoustic analysis

    Claudia Fichtel;Susan Perry;Julie Gros-Louis

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph H. Manson
Joseph H. Manson University of California, Los Angeles
Dorothy M. Fragaszy
Dorothy M. Fragaszy University of Georgia
James W. Vaupel
James W. Vaupel University of Southern Denmark
Robert M. Seyfarth
Robert M. Seyfarth University of Pennsylvania
Louise Barrett
Louise Barrett University of Lethbridge
Mark van Vugt
Mark van Vugt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Susan D. Healy
Susan D. Healy University of St Andrews
Roman M. Wittig
Roman M. Wittig Max Planck Society
Richard W. Wrangham
Richard W. Wrangham Harvard University
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society

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