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Principal investigator
Alicia P. Melis
Alicia is Associate Professor at UCL Experimental Psychology. She completed her PhD at the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, where she was also a postdoctoral researcher until 2012. In 2012 she joined as an Assistant Professor the Behavioural Science group at Warwick Business School, and in 2019 she moved to UCL. Her main research interest is the evolution of social cognition with a particular focus on cooperation. She uses a comparative approach and studies human and nonhuman great apes.
Other lab members
Stefanie Keupp
Steffi is an ESRC funded postdoctoral researcher working currently on our project about “The Cognitive Foundations of Human Reciprocity” (CoRe) . She has previously worked on social comparison processes and social learning (over-imitation) in nonhuman primates and preschool-aged children.
Shona Duguid
Shona is a postdoctoral researcher studying the flexibility of chimpanzees’ communicative strategies in a collaborative context. Her research investigates collaboration and coordination skills in human and nonhuman great apes.
Hannah Brown
Hannah is an ESRC funded research assistant currently working on our CoRe project “The Cognitive Foundations of Human Reciprocity”. Her previous studies have focused on cooperation and communication in chimpanzees.