Presented in collaboration with the Bingham Center for Teaching Excellence and the Hazelrigg Lecture Series for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Laurie Santos is the Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of “The Happiness Lab” podcast. An expert on the science of happiness, her Yale course — Psychology and the Good Life — teaches students how the science of psychology can provide important hints on how to make wiser choices and live a life that’s happier and more fulfilling. Her course has been featured in multiple news outlets including the New York Times, “NBC Nightly News,” “The Today Show,” GQ magazine, Slate and O, The Oprah Magazine. A winner of numerous awards both for her science and teaching, Santos was recently voted as one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10” young minds and was named in Time magazine as a “Leading Campus Celebrity.” Her podcast has over 100 million downloads.
“Laurie R. Santos: Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.” The American Psychologist 67, no. 8 (2012): 641–43.
April M. Ruiz,Laurie R.Santos. "What does the primate mind know about other minds?" In: De Waal, Frans, and Pier Francesco Ferrari. The Primate Mind : Built to Connect with Other Minds. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Huang, Y., Chang, H., Santos, L. R., & Rosati, A. G. (2023). Predictions about reward outcomes in rhesus monkeys. Behavioral Neuroscience.
Deutchman, P., Aellen, M., Bogese, M., Bshary, R., Drayton, L., Gil, D., Martin, J., Prétôt, L., Raihani, N., Santos, L.R., & McAuliffe, K. (2023) Punishment is sensitive to outside options in humans but not in cleaner fish (Labroides dimidiatus). Animal Behaviour, 205 pp. 15-33. Request through ILL
Arre, A. M., Stumph, E., & Santos, L. R. (2021). Macaque species with varying social tolerance show no differences in understanding what other agents perceive. Animal Cognition, 1-12. Request through ILL.
Royka, A. L., Johnston, A. M., & Santos, L. R. (2020). Metacognition in canids: A comparison of dogs (Canis familiaris) and dingoes (Canis dingo). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134(3), 303-317.
Silver, Z. A., Furlong, E. E., Johnston, A. M., & Santos, L. R. (2020). Training differences predict dogs’(Canis lupus familiaris) preferences for prosocial others. Animal Cognition, 1-9.
Horschler, D. J., MacLean, E. L., & Santos, L. R. (2020). Do non-human primates really represent others’ beliefs?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Request through ILL
Crossman, M. K., Kazdin, A. E., Matijczak, A., Kitt, E. R., & Santos, L. R. (2020). The influence of interactions with dogs on affect, anxiety, and arousal in children. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 49(4), 535-548.
Arre, A.M., Clark, C.S., & Santos, L.R. (2020). Do young rhesus monkeys know what others see?: A comparative developmental perspective. American Journal of Primatology.
Horschler, D. J., Santos, L. R., & MacLean, E. L. (2019). Do non-human primates really represent others’ ignorance? A test of the awareness relations hypothesis. Cognition, 190, 72-80.
McAuliffe, K., Bogese, M., Chang, L. W., Andrews, C. E., Mayer, T., Faranda, A., … & Santos, L. R. (2019). Do dogs prefer helpers in an infant-based social evaluation task. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 591.
Rosati, A. G., Arre, A. M., Platt, M. L., & Santos, L. R. (2018). Developmental shifts in social cognition: Socio-emotional biases across the lifespan in rhesus monkeys. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72(10).
Johnston, A. M., Huang, Y., & Santos, L. R. (2018). Dogs do not demonstrate a human-like bias to defer to communicative cues. Learning & Behavior, 1-13. Request through ILL
Crossman, M. K., Kazdin, A. E., Galbraith, K., Eros, L., & Santos, L. R. (2018). Evaluating the Influence of the Presence of a Dog on Bias toward Individuals with Overweight and Obesity. Anthrozoös, 31(1), 77-88. Request through ILL
Drayton, L. A., Santos, L. R., & Baskin-Sommers, A. (2018). Psychopaths fail to automatically take the perspective of others. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Drayton, L. A., & Santos, L. R. (2018). What do monkeys know about others’ knowledge? Cognition. Request through ILL
Drayton, L. A., & Santos, L. R. (2017). Do rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta, understand what others know when gaze following? Animal Behaviour. Request through ILL
Johnston, A. M., Turrin, C., Watson, L., Arre, A. M., & Santos, L. R. (2017). Uncovering the origins of dog-human eye contact: Dingoes establish eye contact more than wolves, but less than dogs. Animal Behaviour. Request through ILL
Rosati, A.G. & Santos, L.R. (2017). Tolerant Barbary macaques maintain juvenile levels of social attention in old age, but despotic rhesus macaques do not. Animal Behaviour. Request through ILL
Cohen, P.M., & Santos, L.R. (2016). Capuchins (Cebus apella) fail to show an asymmetric dominance effect. Animal Cognition.
ohnston, A. M., Holden, P. C., & Santos, L. R. (2016). Exploring the evolutionary origins of overimitation: A comparison across domesticated and non-domesticated canids. Developmental Science.
Rosati, A.G. & Santos, L.R. (2016). Spontaneous metacognition in Rhesus monkeys. Psychological Science.
Martin, A. & Santos, L.R. (2016). What cognitive mechanisms support primate theory of mind? Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Rosati, A. G. & Santos, L. R. (2015). The evolutionary roots of human decision-making. Annual Review of Psychology.
Rosati, A. G., Wobber, V., Hughes, K., & Santos, L. R. (2014). Comparative developmental psychology: How is human cognitive development unique? Evolutionary Psychology.
MacLean, E. L., Hare, B., Nunn, C. L., Addessi, E., Amici, F., Anderson, R. C., Aureli, F., Baker, J. M., Bania, A. E., Barnard, A. M., Boogert, N. J., Brannon, E. M., Bray, E. E., Bray J., Brent, L. J. N., Burkart, J. M., Call J., Cantlon, J. F., Cheke, L. G., Clayton, N. S., Delgado, M. M., DiVincenti, L. J., Fujita, K., Herrmann, E., Hiramatsu, C., Jacobs, L. F., Jordan, K. E., Laude, J. R., Leimgruber, K. L., Messer, E. J. E. , Moura, A. C. de A., Ostojić, L., Picard, A., Platt, M. L., Plotnik, J. M., Range, F., Reader, S. M., Reddy, R. B., Sandel, A. A., Santos, L. R., Schumann, K., Seed, A. M., Sewall, K. B., Shaw, R. C., Slocombe, K. E., Su, Y., Takimoto, A., Tan, J., Tao, R., van Schaik, C. P., Virányi, Z., Visalberghi, E., Wade, J. C., Watanabe, A., Widness, J., Young, J. K., Zentall, T. R., & Zhao, Y. (2014). The Evolution of Self-Control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Martin, A., Santos, L. R. (2014). The origins of belief representation: Monkeys fail to automatically represent others’ beliefs. Cognition, 130 (3): 300-308.
Edwards, B. J., Rottman, B. M., Shankar, M., Betzler, R., Chituc, V., Rodriguez, R., Silva, L., Wibecan, L., Widness, J., Santos, L. R. (2014). Do Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella) Diagnose Causal Relations in the Absence of a Direct Reward? PLoS ONE 9(2)