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., & Ben铆tez, 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.
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.
Webster, M. F., Leverett, K. L., Williamson, R., & Brosnan, S. F. (2023). Children鈥檚 endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object鈥檚 tangibility. Cognitive Development, 66, 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鈥�558.
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鈥�869.
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.
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鈥�70.