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Section Board for 'Human-Animal Interactions, Animal Behaviour and Emotion' (39)

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Prof. Dr. Nicola S. Clayton
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Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Interests: comparative cognition (corvids, cephalopods, Cuttlefish)
Dr. Ikuma Adachi
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Primate Research Institute, Inuyama, Japan
Interests: comparative cognition; language evolution; social cognition; memory and perception
Prof. Dr. Enrico Alleva
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Reference Centre for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health, Isituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Interests: animal behaviour; neuroethology; Ngf; mammals; birds; welfare
Dr. Robert Ian Bowers
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1. Department of Psychology, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
2. Ronin Institute
Interests: systems approaches in animal behaviour; animal cognition; conditioning techniques
Dr. Andrew C. Gallup
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Psychology Program, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY, USA
Interests: yawning; stretching; behavioral contagion; oxytocin; visual attention; aggression; winner and loser effects; laterality
Dr. Márta Gácsi
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MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, Budapest, Hungary
Interests: dog socio-cognitive abilities; animal cognition; animal behavior; ethology
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Prof. Dr. Pauleen Bennett
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School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Bendigo, VIC 3552, Australia
Interests: human-companion animal relationships; anthrozoology; shelter practices; dog behaviour
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Prof. Dr. Michael B. Hennessy
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Department of Psychology, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
Interests: developmental psychobiology; early life stress; social buffering; stress in shelter dogs; stress-induced sickness behavior; hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
Dr. Rafael Freire
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School of Animal and Veterinary Science, Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2650, Australia
Interests: animal cognition; poultry behaviour and welfare; fish biology; animal ethics
Prof. Dr. Leslie Irvine
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Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, Ketchum 223, 492-7039, UCB 327 Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Interests: human-animal relationships; animal selfhood; animal sheltering; animal welfare in disasters
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Dr. Neil R. Jordan
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1. Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia
2. Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, Wildlife Reproduction Centre, Obley Road, Dubbo, NSW 2830, Australia
Interests: animal behaviour; behavioural ecology; human-wildlife conflict; carnivore behaviour; human-wildlife interactions; scent communication; olfactory communication; ethology; social behaviour; conservation behaviour
Prof. Dr. Antonio Lanatà
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Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Interests: biomedical signal processing; biosensors; bioelectronics; human-animal interaction; complex systems coupling; biomedical nonlinear analysis
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Prof. Dr. Maria da Luz Mathias
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Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: small mammals; species-environment interaction; environmental monitoring; behavioral ecology; adaptation
Dr. Sebastian McBride
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IBERS, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DA, UK
Interests: stereotypy; neurodegeneration; cognition; sleep; neurophysiologial effects of stress
Dr. Cédric Sueur
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IPHC, University of Strasbourg, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
Interests: animal behaviour; social networks; decision-making; drawings; fractals; modelling; AI; animal ethics; human-animal interactions
Dr. Richard Thomas
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Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, The University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Interests: human-animal relationships; predominantly in the historic period; animal health and disease
Prof. Dr. Charles Snowdon
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Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1202 West Johnson Street, Wisconsin, MI 53706, USA
Interests: primate social; reproductive; cognitive and communication behavior
Dr. Andrew Robins
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Centre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, School of Veterinary Science, University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton, Queensland 4343, Australia
Interests: animal learning; animal welfare; brain lateralization; choice behaviour; visual pattern recognition
Prof. Dr. Jean-Loup Rault
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Institute for Animal Husbandry and Animal Welfare, University of Veterinary Medicine (Vetmeduni) Vienna, 1210 Vienna, Austria
Interests: social behaviour; oxytocin; human-animal interaction; prosocial behaviour; neuroscience; euthanasia; slaughter; free-range poultry
Dr. Paul Morris
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Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, King Henry Building, King Henry 1st Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 2DY, UK
Interests: secondary emotions in animals and infants; animal personality; inter species communication; the embodiment of emotions and intentions
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Prof. Dr. Lucia Francesca Menna
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Departments of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, Federico II University of Naples, 80138 Naples, Italy
Interests: animal assisted interventions; pubblic health; bioethics, zoonosis
Prof. Dr. Lynette A. Hart
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Department of Population Health and Reproduction, 1089 Health Sciences Drive, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: human-animal relationships; communication and social behavior in large mammals; applied animal behavior in dogs
Prof. Dr. Kun Guo
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School of Psychology, College of Social Science, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK
Interests: animal cognition; face perception; social attention; visual neuroscience; emotion
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Dr. Mónica Teresa González-Ramírez
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School of Psychology, Facultad de Psicología, Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Nuevo León C.P. 64455, Mexico
Interests: human–animal interaction; companion animals; health psychology; behavioral psychology
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Prof. Dr. Björn Forkman
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Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
Interests: animal welfare; animal cognition; personality; welfare assessment; dog behaviour
Prof. Dr. Kim A. Bard
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Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Psychology-King Henry Building, Portsmouth PO1 2DY, UK
Interests: infancy; great apes; comparative psychology; emotion; communication; gestures; ethology; animal behaviour
Dr. Mietje Germonpré
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Directorate Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
Interests: palaeolithic zooarchaeology; human-animal interactions; domestication; canidae; ursidae; mammoth; pleistocene palaeontology
Dr. Jonathan Cooper
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Animal Behaviour, Cognition and Welfare Research Group, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK
Interests: animal behaviour; animal welfare; motivation; stereotypic behaviour; behavioural needs
Dr. Eugenia Natoli
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Canile Sovrazonale, ASL Roma 3 (Local Health Unit Rome 3), Rome, Italy
Interests: intraspecific cat and dog social behaviour; welfare behavioural indicators; personality
Prof. Dr. Cynthia M. Otto
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1. Penn Vet Working Dog Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA
2. Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Interests: working dogs; canine sports medicine; olfaction; veterinary physiology; disease detection
Dr. Bruce Alexander Schulte
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Department of Biology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA
Interests: chemical signaling; conservation behavior; ecosystem engineers; elephants; human-wildlife conflict; mammals; social behavior
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Hart
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School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Interests: clinical animal behavior; behavioral adaptions of animals; assistance/service dogs
Prof. Dr. Biagio D'Aniello
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Department of Biology, University of Naples "Federico II" Via Cinthia, 80126 Naples, Italy
Interests: cellular and organic organization of metazoans; reproductive biology; development; neuroanatomy; animal biodiversity; canine ethology
Dr. Ulrich H. Reichard
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Biological Anthropology Faculty, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, USA
Interests: primate behavioral ecology; hylobatids (gibbons and Siamang), hominoids; territoriality; monogamy
Dr. Sofia Engrola
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Aquaculture Research Group, Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: aquaculture; nutrition; growth; protein metabolism; feeding strategies
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Dr. Peta Lee Hitchens
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Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Interests: equine veterinary epidemiology
Dr. Péter Pongrácz
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Department of Ethology, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: animal cognition; acoustic and visual communication; social learning; applied ethology and welfare
Dr. Karen L. Overall

Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
Interests: canine behaviour; behavioural genetics; feline behaviour; canine and feline welfare; neuropsychopharmacology; noise phobia/reactivity; canine anxieties
Dr. Elisabetta Palagi
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1. Ethology Unit, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Volta 6, 56126 Pisa, Italy
2. Natural History Museum, University of Pisa, Via Roma 79, 56011 Calci, Pisa, Italy
Interests: intra- and inter-species communication; social behaviour; animal cognition; animal awareness; multimodal communication; conflict management; sexual behaviour; emotional contagion; motor resonance; human nonverbal communication
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