Research

Effects of cross-fostering on social, emotional, and cognitive development of infant chimpanzees: In 1966, Drs. Allen and Beatrix Gardner began a historic series of studies in which they raised infant chimpanzees as if they were human children. Research Forward offers individuals the opportunity to work with data from these historic studies and to contribute to ongoing research into the nature of our closest relatives.

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Small statue of chimpanzee looking in mirror

In this community presentation, Heidi talks about the groundbreaking research during which infant chimpanzees were raised in a human environment with American Sign Language as the means of two-way communication.

Publications

Dombrausky, K., Jensvold, M. L., Shaw, H. L., & Davis, J. Q. (2023). Chimpanzees coordinate interrogative markers to ask questions. Gesture, 22(2), 121-153. doi.org/10.1075/gest.22022.dom
Shaw, H.L., & Scheel, M.H. (2022). Prescriptions from history: A case for replications that control for leading. Infant and Child Development, e2353. doi:10.1002/icd.2353
Shaw, H.L., Scheel, M.H., & Gardner, R.A. (2017). Tomasello turns back the clock in: A natural history of human thinking. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. American Journal of Psychology, 130(1), 125-131.
Scheel, M.H., Shaw, H.L., & Gardner, R.A. (2016). Incomparable methods vitiate cross-species comparisons: A comment on Haun et al. (2014). Psychological Science, 27(12), 1667-1669.
Gardner, R.A., Scheel, M.H., & Shaw, H.L. (2011). Pygmalion in the laboratory. American Journal of Psychology, 124(4), 455-461.
Marbe, K., & Gardner, R.A. (2011). Arithmetic in the chimpanzee Basso in the Frankfurt Zoological Park together with remarks to animal psychology and an open letter to Herr Krall from Karl Marbe (translated by H. L. Shaw). American Journal of Psychology, 124(4), 463-488.