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
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
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
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
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/)
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
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".
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".
