Education:
B.A. (Animal Behavior) - Bucknell University
M.A. (Cognitive Psychology) - Georgia State University
Ph.D. (Cognitive Psychology) - Georgia State University
Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Emory University (IRACDA Program)
Courses Taught:
PY 291 - Research Methods I
PY 292 - Research Methods II
PY 222 - Cognitive Psychology
Publications:
Zipple, M. N., Hazelwood, C., Webster, M. F., & Benítez, M. E. (2024). Animal emotions and consciousness: a preliminary assessment of researchers' perceptions and biases and prospects for future progress. Royal Society open science, 11(11), 241255. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241255
Webster, M. F., Engelberg, J. W. M., & Hampton, R. R. (2024). Rhesus monkeys show greater habituation to repeated computer-generated images than do orangutans. Behavioural processes, 216, 105011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2024.105011
Webster, M. F., Leverett, K. L., Williamson, R., & Brosnan, S. F. (2023). Children’s endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object’s tangibility. Cognitive Development, 66, 101331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101331
Webster, M. F., & Brosnan, S. F. (2021). The effects of positive and negative experiences on subsequent behavior and cognitive performance in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus [Cebus] apella). Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983), 135(4), 545–558. https://doi.org/10.1037/com0000277
James, B. T., Webster, M. F., Menzel, C. R., Whitham, W., & Beran, M. J. (2020). Post-event misinformation effects in a language-trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes). Animal cognition, 23(5), 861–869. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01391-2
Smith, M. F., Leverett, K. L., Wilson, B. J., & Brosnan, S. F. (2019). Capuchin monkeys (Sapajus [Cebus] apella) play Nash equilibria in dynamic games, but their decisions are likely not influenced by oxytocin. American journal of primatology, 81(4), e22973. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22973
Hall, K., Smith, M. F., Russell, J. L., Lambeth, S. P., Schapiro, S. J., & Brosnan, S. F. (2019). Chimpanzees Rarely Settle on Consistent Patterns of Play in the Hawk Dove, Assurance, and Prisoner's Dilemma Games, in a Token Exchange Task. Animal behavior and cognition, 6(1), 48–70. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.06.01.04.2019