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OppNet Announces its First FY2014 RFA
OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network, announces its first FY2014 RFA: Short-term mentored career enhancement awards in the basic behavioral and social sciences: Cross-training at the intersection of animal models and human
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4th Summer Institute in Human Ethology
4th Summer Institute in Human Ethology Sponsored by ISHE and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI August 6-9, 2013 www.ISHE.org Details: The International Society for Human Ethology will hold its 4th Biennial Summer Institute
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What Are Animals Thinking?
PBS: We humans have long wondered how animals see the world—and us. Does your dog really feel shame when it gives you that famous “guilty look?” What is behind the “swarm intelligence” of slime mold
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For Word Learning, Size Matters If You’re A Dog
Scientific American: In 1988, a three-year-old child is led into a brightly colored testing room in a psychology department in Bloomington, Indiana. A small toy is brought out and put onto a table in front
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Apes, Humans Share A Happiness Dip Mid-Life
NPR: Well, yeah, I think so. So for a long time, the research on the midlife crisis, or the views on the midlife crisis, have primarily looked at it in terms of social forces. So
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Dogs Learning Words Focus on Size, Not Shape
The New York Times: Toddlers just learning to speak associate words with shape, not size or texture. Anything shaped like a telephone, for instance, might be called “phone.” But a new study suggests that dogs
