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  • November 24th 2023

    From Cacophony to Symphony: The Harmonious Interplay of Animal Cognition and Communication with Dr. Tecumseh Fitch

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  • November 5th 2023
    Laura Buck with a Schematic of her research being done at Kyoto University

    Unraveling the Secrets of Cold Adaptation and Hybridization in Primates with Evolutionary Anthropologist Dr. Laura Buck

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  • October 25th 2023
    urban macaques on motorbike (left) and primatologist Paula Pebsworth (right)

    Exploring Human-Primate Coexistence with Dr. Paula Pebsworth: A Journey from the Vineyards of Napa Valley to the Wilds of Africa, Asia and Beyond

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  • September 27th 2023

    Change: Primate Populations in an Anthropogenic World with Primatologist and Conservation Biologist Dr. Colin Chapman

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  • September 27th 2023

    Understanding the Ins and Outs of Tool Use in Capuchin Monkeys with Professor Patricia Izar

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  • August 8th 2023
    Reggie and undergraduate students at Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan

    Exploring Comparative Primate Cognition with Dr. Reggie Gazes and Dr. Ikuma Adachi

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  • July 20th 2023

    From Gorillas to Elephants: Dr. Ian Redmond on Wildlife Conservation in Africa

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  • July 19th 2023

    The PrimateCast 83: Journey into the Wild with The Orangutan Conservation Project's Leif Cocks

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  • July 19th 2023

    The PrimateCast Origins (82): Tarzan meets Darwin in conservation and evolution with conservationist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Fred Bercovitch

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  • June 9th 2023

    The PrimateCast 81: Born Free USA's Devan Schowe on animal advocacy, ethics, welfare and conservation in the USA

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  • April 21st 2023

    The PrimateCast Origins (80): Walking with gorillas and Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's first wildlife veterinarian

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  • March 29th 2023

    The PrimateCast 79: Dr. Tesla Monson on what teeth can tell us about the life histories and behavior of extinct species (and cool science communication!)

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The PrimateCast #45: An Interview with Dr. Ralph Adolphs

July 17th 2016
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The PrimateCast - An Interview with Dr. Ralph Adolphs

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The PrimateCast interviews Dr. Ralph Adolphs about emotion, the social brain, and the approaches he and his lab are using to understand these phenomena.

Dr. Ralph Adolphs is Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. The Adolphs Lab researches various topics related to emotion and social decision making in normal functioning as well as certain clinical populations such as people with autism spectrum disorder or certain brain lesions, using advanced techniques including brain imaging, eye-tracking and advanced computational methods such as machine learning. Dr. Adolphs is also Director of the Conte Center for Neurobiology of Decision Making where much of this work takes place. We sat down with him over breakfast on Saturday, June 4, 2016 in Inuyama, Japan.

"How many [emotions] are there, how would we be able to tell, and then I think it starts to get complicated very quickly"

Dr. Adolphs was in Japan on sabbatical from March until June 2016 to work on a book he is co-authoring that focuses on emotion. In the interview, Dr. Adolphs talks about the need to redefine how we think about emotion and in particular how we define it as an area of scientific investigation. He also talks at length about some of the approaches he and his colleagues are using to better understand the social brain, and how being at Caltech has facilitated this research. An especially important point that comes up is the idea of ecological validity in modern psychological research. Some of Dr. Adolph's own work uses videos shown to study subjects, including clips from the famous British and American sitcom "The Office", which allows his team to understand what's going on in the brain when people are exposed to socially awkward situations, which often come up in that series.

Join us and Dr. Ralph Adolphs on The PrimateCast, and feel free to visit (and Like/Follow) us on Facebook and Twitter and leave comments and feedback on this or any other podcast in the series. You can also follow our RSS feed, or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes to keep up with the latest content. Photo Credit: Ralph Adolphs / Caltech Alumni

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