The psychology of life
Psychologists at the University of St Andrews will open their doors this weekend (13th March 2004) as part of National Science Week.
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A virtual field trip into the wild
CAPTION: A screen capture of the computer simulation which will allow visitors to make a lightning "virtual field trip" to two different wild chimpanzee communities. CREDIT: Steve Smart
Monkeys unable to master complex grammar
CAPTION: A cotton-top tamarin
Talking seals and the evolution of language
TALKING SEALS CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE EVOLUTION
Psychologist awarded prestigious readership
PSYCHOLOGIST AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS READERSHIP
Psychologists open doors to the mind
CAPTION: An illustration of research at the School of Psychology - 3-D model faces accentuating (right) or diminishing masculine face shape. Researchers at St Andrews have used computer graphics to study facial attributions. Unexpectedly, women were found to prefer slightly feminised male faces. CREDIT: Professor David Perrett
Memory and the brain
One of the world's authorities on the neurobiology of learning and memory is to give a series of public lectures at the University of St Andrews.
Marrying your ‘parents’
Psychologists have found that humans select long-term partners who not only look like themselves, but look like their opposite sex parents.
Leopards reveal new insight into primate evolution
Pic caption - (left) the adult leopard male "Cosmos" during a nighly patrol walk. credit: Dr David Jenny. (right) the Diana monkey - one of the species of monkeys under threat of predation by leopards in the Tai Forest. credit: Dr Zuberbuhler.
The perfect man?
CAPTION: The computer-generated image of the 'perfect man'. CREDIT: A.C. Little and D. I. Perrett http://www.perceptionlab.com