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Dan Blumstein and colleagues’ work teaching Australian animals to avoid evolutionarily novel predators covered in Science.
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Noa Pinter-Wollman discusses her work on insect societies on The Science Show on ABC and Science Friday on NPR
Link to The Science Show on ABC - (https://radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pgK6DDbOE6?play=true)
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Susan Perry launches a website which lets people experience a day in the life of a capuchin monkey
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New work by Greg Bryant and colleagues on real versus fake laughter covered in Science (complete with video!).
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Getting an early start: Incoming first-year BEC grad student Renée Hagen is quoted in a New York Times article on the effects of infrastructure on the Agta
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Research by Greg Bryant and other BEC members on the universality of differences in laughter between friends and between strangers covered by NPR and the Huffington Post
Read the Huffington Post article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laughter-friends-strangers-study_us_570e6c74e4b08a2d32b895d0?ocivn29
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Greg Bryant’s research on detecting differences between spontaneous and volitional laughter covered by Time Magazine, KCRW, and NPR
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Brooke Scelza’s paper in Evolutionary Anthropology on strategic female promiscuity forms the basis for a recent piece in Slate
Brooke Scelza's paper in Evolutionary Anthropology on strategic…
Dave Frederick selected as Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Sciences
BEC alumnus Dave Frederick selected as a Rising Star in psychology…
Edward Clint’s Paper on Sex Differences in Spatial Navigation in the Quarterly Review of Biology
Edward Clint's paper receives a youtube video based on his work…
London’s Times reports on research led by Martie Haselton, UCLA professor of psychology and communication studies, on women’s mate preferences during ovulation
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