ALEJANDRO SÁNCHEZ-AMARO
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Education


Former Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2013-2017
Ph.D. in Biology
Advisor: Michael Tomasello
Secondary Advisor: Josep Call

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2011-2013
M.Sc in Primatology
Thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Advisor: Montserrat Colellç
Secondary Advisor: Josep Call

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2006-2010
B.Sc in Biology with Honours

Scientific Employment

Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2021-present
Postdoctoral Researcher
PI: Daniel Haun

University of Zurich, Department of Anthropology, Switzerland
2019
Postdoctoral Researcher (DFG Fellow; visiting)
PI: Judith Burkart & Federico Rossano
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 University of California San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science, USA
2018-2020
Postdoctoral Researcher (DFG Fellow)
PI: Federico Rossano

Former Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2017-2018
Research Fellow
Advisor: Michael Tomasello
Secondary Advisor: Josep Call

​Publications

Sánchez-Amaro, A., and Rossano, F. (in press). Chimpanzees and bonobos use social leverage in an Ultimatum Game. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1937​​

Sánchez-Amaro, A., 
Ball, R., and Rossano, F. (2021). Gibbon strategies in a food competition task. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-88804-5​​

Sánchez-Amaro, A.,
Burkart, J., and Rossano, F. (2021) Marmoset monkeys overcome dyadic social dilemmas while avoiding mutual defection. Animal Behaviour. doi: 0.1016/j.anbehav.2020.12.020

​Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S., Fernández, S., and Rossano, F. (2021) How environmental unpredictability and harshness affect chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) in risk-choice and temporal-discounting tasks. Journal of Comparative Psychology. doi: 10.1037/com0000261​

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., and Tomasello, M. (2020). Do 7-year-old children understand social leverage?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104963

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold., and Rossano, F. (2020). Gibbons exploit information about what a competitor can see. Animal Cognition. doi:10.1007/s10071-019-01333-7

Many Primates* (2019). Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review. 

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Altinok, N., Heintz, C., and Call, J. (2019). Disentangling Great Apes' Decoy-effect Bias in a Food Choice Task. Animal Behavior and Cognition. doi: 10.26451/abc.06.03.05.2019

Many Primates* (2019). Establishing an infrastructure of collaboration in primate cognitive research. Plos ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223675

Amici, F., Sánchez-Amaro, A., Sebastián-Enesco, C., Cacchione, T., Allritz, M., Salazar-Bonet, J., and Rossano, F. (2019). The word order of languages predicts native speakers’ working memory. Scientific Reports. doi: 
10.1038/s41598-018-37654-9

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., and Tomasello, M. (2019). Chimpanzees and children avoid mutual defection in a social dilemma. Evolution and Human Behavior. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.07.004

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., and Tomasello, M. (2018). Chimpanzees' understanding of social leverage. Plos ONE. e0207868. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207868

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., and Tomasello, M. (2017). Chimpanzees, bonobos and children succesfully coordinate in conflict situations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284: 20170259. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0259

Sánchez-Amaro, A., and Amici, F. (2016). Markets carefully interpreted. A reply on Kaburu, S. S. K. & Newton-Fisher, N. E. (2016). Animal Behaviour, 119: e7-e13. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.06.022

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., and Tomasello, M. (2016). Chimpanzees coordinate in a Snowdrift Game. Animal Behaviour, 116: 61-74. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.03.030

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., and Tomasello, M. (2016). Strategic decision-making by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and children in a Snowdrift-Game task. PeerJ Preprints, 4:e1805v1. doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1805v1

Sánchez-Amaro, A., Peretó, M., and Call, J. (2016). Differences in Between-Reinforcer Value Modulate the Selective-Value Effect in Great Apes (Pan troglodyes, P. paniscus, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo abelii). Journal of Comparative Psychology. doi: 10.1037/com0000014

Sánchez-Amaro, A., and Amici, F. (2015). Are primates out of the Market?. Animal Behaviour, 110: 51-60. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.09.020
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Amici, F., Aureli, F., Mundry, R., Amaro, AS., Barroso, AM., Ferreti, J., and Call, J. (2014). Calculated Reciprocity? A comparative test with six primate species. Primates, 55: 447-457. doi:10.1007/s10329-014-0424-4

*Many Primates is an initiative that promotes reproducibility and cooperation between primates' researchers (see https://manyprimates.github.io/)



Talks


​IV Iberian Primatological Conference. Girona, Spain 2013. "Natural Choices of Food in Chimpanzees and Orangutans".

14th Gesellschaft für Primatologie Conference. Leipzig, Germany 2015. "Natural Choices of Food in Great Apes".

2nd European Student Conference on Behaviour and Cognition. Zurich, Switzerland 2015. "Strategic decision-making by chimpanzees in a Snowdrift Game".

The European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA) Conference 2015. Helsinki, Finland 2015. "Strategic decision-making by chimpanzees and children in a Snowdrift Game".

Behaviour 2015. Cairns, Australia 2015. "Difference in between-reinforcer value modulate the selective value effect in Great Apes".

XXVI International Primatological Conference (IPS). Chicago, USA 2016. "Coordination despite conflict in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and children".

Behaviour 2017, Estoril, Portugal 2017. "Chimpanzees and children coordinate in a Prisoner's Dilemma task".

VI Iberian Primatological Conference. Burgos, Spain 2017. "Chimpanzees and children coordinate in a Prisoner's Dilemma task". 

XXVIII International Primatological Conference (IPS). Nairobi, Kenya 2018. "Chimpanzees leverage understanding".



Posters

XXV International Primatological Conference (IPS). Hanoi, Vietnam 2014. "Natural Choices of Food in Great Apes". Finalist of Student Award Competition.

Behaviour 2015. Cairns, Australia 2015. "Chimpanzees and children strategic decision-making in Snowdrift Games".

VIII Conference on Cognitive Science. Dubrovnik, Croatia 2016. "Coordination under conflict in chimpanzees (Pan yroglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and children".

Chimpanzees in Context Simposium. Chicago, USA 2016. Electronic Poster. "Strategic decision-making by chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes), bonobos (Pan Paniscus) and children in a Snowdrift-Game task".

XXVIII International Primatological Conference (IPS). Nairobi, Kenya 2018. Decoy effect in Great Apes".

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Summer Conference. Konstanz, Germany 2019. "Gibbons exploit information about what a competitor can see".

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