"From an early age on we are accustomed to the faces of other humans: a long nose, the swing of the lips or the bushy eyebrows. We learn to recognize the small differences which contribute to an individual appearance", explains Christoph Dahl, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics". It is similar in monkeys...
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Priming Toddlers to be Altruisitc
Reposted from Evolved Primate Drop a couple of pens in front of an eighteen-month-old toddler, and there is a decent chance your toddler will display a spontaneous act of altruism by picking them up for you. A recent experiment at the Max Planck Institute now shows that this kind of cooperative, altruistic behavior in toddlers can be increased by affiliative priming. Priming is a powerful tool in
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Priming Toddlers to be Altruistic
Drop a couple of pens in front of an eighteen year-old toddler, and there is a decent chance your toddler will display a spontaneous act of altruism by picking them up for you. A recent experiment from the Max Planck Institute now shows that this kind of cooperative, altruistic behavior in toddlers can be increased by affiliative priming...... Over, H., & Carpenter, M. (2009) Eighteen-Mon
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August 25, 2009
Actually, you ARE walking in circles
This post isn’t quite about ecology. But it’s about a phenomenon that many ecologists have ample experience with. A study out last week in Current Biology found that when people get lost in the wilderness, they actually do walk in circles.Jan Souman of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, and his [...]... Souman JL, Frissen I, Sreenivasa MN
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May 20, 2009
European Union Research Grant Awarded To University Of Haifa Research Team
The research team is headed by Prof. Kobi Rosenblum of the University of Haifa's Department of Neurobiology and Ethology and has been awarded a grant of $815,000 A research team composed of 14 European groups, headed by Prof. Nils Brose of the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, has been awarded 11.9 million Euro, on behalf of the European Union, to study the role of synaptic prote
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