Jennifer Vonk's guest appearances

Jennifer Vonk

Spit and Twitches: The Animal Cognition Podcast

The Dissenter

Jordan Peterson

Steven Pinker

Donald Trump

Robert Sapolsky

Stephen Hicks

Jessica Thompson

Noam Chomsky

Laura Kipnis

Jonathan Haidt

Mark Blyth

Catherine Wilson

Matthew Murphy

Colin Wright

Michael Bailey

Richard Wrangham

OwlTail

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT  Dr. Jennifer Vonk is Professor of comparative/cognitive psychology at Oakland University. Her primary research interests are in two overlapping areas: animal cognition, and cognitive development. The underlying goal of her work is to examine cognitive continuities and discontinuities between humans and both closely and distantly related species.  In this episode, Dr. Vonk joins me to talk about what is comparative psychology; how we can apply evolutionary principles to better compare cognition between different species; the importance of studying how a trait develops during the lifetime of a species; the problem with anthropocentric approaches to studying other species; in what ways humans are different, and also how other animals might have some superior abilities; and, finally, the issue with studying animals in the wild and in the lab. Time Links: 00:44 What is comparative psychology? 05:16 Species Dr. Vonk focuses on        09:45 Comparing species with evolutionary principles    17:15 Evolution and development   20:04 Comparing other primate species to humans   22:46 Anthropocentric views of other species’ cognition      24:34 Why are humans different? 36:47 But, are humans really cognitively superior?  43:20 Animals behave differently in the wild and in the lab 52:42 Follow Dr. Vonk’s work! -- Follow Dr. Vonk’s work: Personal website: https://www.jennifervonk.com/  Faculty page: https://tinyurl.com/y7flokrp Articles on Researchgate: https://tinyurl.com/y8583rea Books: https://tinyurl.com/y82gyfr6 -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km PHILOSOPHY: https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p ANTHROPOLOGY: https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g

------------------Support the channel------------ Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter</a> PayPal: <a href="http://paypal.me/thedissenter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paypal.me/thedissenter</a> ------------------Follow me on--------------------- Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/</a> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT</a> Dr. Jennifer Vonk is Professor of comparative/cognitive psychology at Oakland University. Her primary research interests are in two overlapping areas: animal cognition, and cognitive development. The underlying goal of her work is to examine cognitive continuities and discontinuities between humans and both closely and distantly related species.  In this episode, Dr. Vonk joins me to talk about what is comparative psychology; how we can apply evolutionary principles to better compare cognition between different species; the importance of studying how a trait develops during the lifetime of a species; the problem with anthropocentric approaches to studying other species; in what ways humans are different, and also how other animals might have some superior abilities; and, finally, the issue with studying animals in the wild and in the lab. Time Links: 00:44 What is comparative psychology? 05:16 Species Dr. Vonk focuses on        09:45 Comparing species with evolutionary principles    17:15 Evolution and development   20:04 Comparing other primate species to humans   22:46 Anthropocentric views of other species’ cognition      24:34 Why are humans different? 36:47 But, are humans really cognitively superior?  43:20 Animals behave differently in the wild and in the lab 52:42 Follow Dr. Vonk’s work! -- Follow Dr. Vonk’s work: Personal website: <a href="https://www.jennifervonk.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jennifervonk.com/</a> Faculty page: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7flokrp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y7flokrp</a> Articles on Researchgate: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8583rea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y8583rea</a> Books: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y82gyfr6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y82gyfr6</a> -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS: KARIN LIETZCKE, ANN BLANCHETTE, JUNOS, SCIMED, PER HELGE HAAKSTD LARSEN, LAU GUERREIRO, RUI BELEZA, MIGUEL ESTRADA, ANTÓNIO CUNHA, CHANTEL GELINAS, JIM FRANK, JERRY MULLER, FRANCIS FORD, AND HANS FREDRIK SUNDE! I also leave you with the link to a recent montage video I did with the interviews I have released until the end of June 2018: <a href="https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/efdb18WdZUo</a> And check out my playlists on: PSYCHOLOGY: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/ybalf8km</a> PHILOSOPHY: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yb6a7d3p</a> ANTHROPOLOGY: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y8b42r7g</a>

#97 Jennifer Vonk: Comparing Humans and Other Species, and Primate Cognition

 Jennifer gets 2 pics because BATS  Jennifer Vonk is a comparative/cognitive psychologist with primary research interests in two overlapping areas: (1) animal cognition, and (2) cognitive development.  Dr. Vonk only likes animals that rhyme  She completed her undergraduate degree at McMaster University in Hamilton ON, conducting an honors thesis in behavioral endocrinology, a Masters degree in human memory at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON and a doctoral degree on the topic of concept formation in great apes at York University in Toronto.      Her current work centers on social cognition, such as theory of mind, prosociality, and reasoning about emotions, as well as physical cognition, such as causal reasoning, analogical reasoning, numerosity, and natural concept formation. More recent work is focused on examining the effects of religiosity, attachment, and perspective-taking on human decision-making processes.  We talked about some of her recent work including stuff on concept formation in bears, quantity estimation in gorillas, social and non social category discrimination, human emotion detection in domestic cats and kin discrimination in domestic dogs.  (There were some feedback issues in this episode, I have cleaned up the audio best I could)  Thanks again to Red Arms for letting me mash up their music in the closing theme. Buy their music now.mp3 download

<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hOTYWtpU8yI/Vk27yDHqkjI/AAAAAAAAB5s/16vzaEhTDAY/s1600/Me%2Band%2BBartok3.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Jennifer gets 2 pics because BATS <a href="http://www.jennifervonk.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jennifer Vonk</a> is a comparative/cognitive psychologist with primary research interests in two overlapping areas: (1) animal cognition, and (2) cognitive development.  <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D_xv4ANy03s/Vk279aY9TOI/AAAAAAAAB50/N6r6Rm6V50Q/s1600/Me%2Band%2BDJuly12.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Dr. Vonk only likes animals that rhyme She completed her undergraduate degree at McMaster University in Hamilton ON, conducting an honors thesis in behavioral endocrinology, a Masters degree in human memory at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, ON and a doctoral degree on the topic of concept formation in great apes at York University in Toronto.   Her current work centers on social cognition, such as theory of mind, prosociality, and reasoning about emotions, as well as physical cognition, such as causal reasoning, analogical reasoning, numerosity, and natural concept formation. More recent work is focused on examining the effects of religiosity, attachment, and perspective-taking on human decision-making processes. We talked about some of her recent work including stuff on <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Vonk%20et%20al%20AB%202012.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">concept formation in bears</a>, <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Vonk%20et%20al%20AC%202014.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">quantity estimation in gorillas</a>, <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Vonk%20%20Johnson%20Ulrich%20LB%202014.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">social and non social category discrimination</a>,<a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Galvan%20%20Vonk%202015%20AC.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> human emotion detection in domestic cats</a> and <a href="http://davebrodbeck.com/storage/spit/Hamilton%20%20Vonk%20pre%20final%20pdf.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kin discrimination in domestic dogs</a>. (There were some feedback issues in this episode, I have cleaned up the audio best I could) Thanks again to Red Arms for letting me mash up their music in the closing theme. Buy their music <a href="https://redarms.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-the-new-cold-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">now</a>. <a href="http://archive.org/download/spit10/spit10.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mp3 download</a>

Episode 10 - Jennifer Vonk