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Dr. James Rilling Publishes New Book, “Father Nature: The Science of Paternal Potential”

Dr. James Rilling Publishes New Book, “Father Nature: The Science of Paternal Potential”

Barbara BransonOctober 1, 2024December 12, 20240

Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience here in the Psychology Department at Emory, Dr. James Rilling studies the human brain as much as those of our primate…

Dr. Gregory Berns Publishes “Cowpuppy: An Unexpected Friendship and a Scientist’s Journey into the Secret World of Cows”

Barbara BransonAugust 20, 2024November 12, 20240

In his new book, Dr. Gregory Berns brings insight from his knowledge as a neuroscientist and his day-to-day experience caring for a bovine family on his Georgia farm together into…

“Changing life on a contextual dime”– The Kelly Lab publishes ‘Testosterone facilitates nonreproductive, context-appropriate pro- and anti-social behavior in female and male Mongolian gerbils’

“Changing life on a contextual dime”– The Kelly Lab publishes ‘Testosterone facilitates nonreproductive, context-appropriate pro- and anti-social behavior in female and male Mongolian gerbils’

Barbara BransonOctober 2, 2023October 5, 20230

Published in Hormones and Behavior vol. 156, Testosterone facilitates nonreproductive, context-appropriate pro- and anti-social behavior in female and male Mongolian gerbils expands on the findings of this study, examining the…

What is the brain basis of pleasure in humans? Drs. Phillip Kragel, Michael T. Treadway and Emory collaborators publish ‘a mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain’ seeking answers

What is the brain basis of pleasure in humans? Drs. Phillip Kragel, Michael T. Treadway and Emory collaborators publish ‘a mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain’ seeking answers

Barbara BransonJune 29, 2023September 25, 20230

Published in Nature Human Behavior, ‘A mesocorticolimbic signature of pleasure in the human brain’ expands on findings that provide evidence for the basis of human pleasure that is distributed across…

Challenges and Opportunities for Experimental Psychopathology and Translational Research

Barbara BransonJune 29, 2023September 25, 20230

Published by Michael T Treadway https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14332-8_11

Supergenes on Steroids

Barbara BransonOctober 5, 2021September 25, 20230

By Emory Psychology Professor, Dr. Donna L. Maney and Dr. Clemens Küpper of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology. Read the full article here.

Evolutionary theory prediction: Response rate as a joint function of reinforcement rate and reinforcer magnitude

Barbara BransonAugust 12, 2021September 25, 20230

Emory Psychology Professor Dr. Jack McDowell in the Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Read the full paper here.

We know more than we ever learned: Processes involved in accumulation of world knowledge

Barbara BransonAugust 9, 2021September 25, 20230

Dr. Patricia J. Bauer, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology in Child Development Perspectives. Read the full paper here.

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