I am broadly interested in the evolutionary origins of social cognition and Theory of Mind using interdisciplinary methods in evolutionary anthropology and comparative psychology. Using behavioral experiments and eye tracking technology, I am investigating the perspective-taking capacities of captive tufted capuchin monkeys at the Language Research Center (GSU). By translating experiments into the wild, I will investigate how wild white faced capuchin monkeys acquire and utilize social under ecologically relevant conditions at the Capuchinos de Taboga field site in Costa Rica.
Before coming to Emory, I completed my MSc in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and my BAS in Zoology and Psychology from the University of Guelph, Canada.