Alejandro (Alex) Sánchez-Amaro
Guest
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 425
e-mail:
alex_sanchez@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Thesis title: Coordination in conflict situations: A comparative investigation of the coordination strategies that children, chimpanzees and bonobos use to solve situations of conflict
Research Interests
- social decision-making for cooperation and conflict resolution
- evolution of cognitive biases
- risk and uncertainty
- biological market theory
Curriculum Vitae
Career & Education
2021 - present | Postdoctoral Researcher |
2018 - 2020
| Postdoctoral Researcher (DFG Fellowship 2019-2020) |
2013 - 2017 | Dr. rer. Nat. Biology |
2011 - 2013 | MSc Primatology |
2006 - 2010 | BA (Hons) Biology |
Teaching
2020 | Cooperation and conflicts of interest in non-human primates |
2018 | COGS 144: Social Cognition: A developmental and evolutionary perspective Temporary lecturer at the University of California San Diego, USA |
2016 | Cooperation in non-human great apes Seminar at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany |
Academic Talks
2019 | How harshness and unpredictability of resources affect chimpanzees |
2018 | Sunk Cost Effect Department of Cognitive Science Central European University, Budapest, Hungary |
2017 | Coordination in Conflict Situations Cognitive Science Department University of California, San Diego, USA |
2017 | Coordination in Conflict Situations Department of Anthropology University of Zurich, Switzerland |
2017 | Coordination in Conflict Situations MPI CEU Symposium Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
Conference Talks and Posters
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S., & Rossano, F. “Gibbons exploit information about what a competitor can see". Poster presented at the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Conference, Konstanz, Germany 2019 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., & Rossano, F. “Exploration biases in Great Apes”. Oral presentation presented at the PDA Postdoctoral Symposium UCSD, San Diego, USA 2018, 3rd price talk |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. “Chimpanzees leverage understanding”. Oral presentation presented at the XXVII International Primatological Conference, Nairobi, Kenya 2018 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. “Decoy Effect in great apes (Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, Gorilla gorilla and Pongo abelii)”. Poster presented at the XXVII International Primatological Conference, Nairobi, Kenya 2018 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. ”Chimpanzees and children coordination in a Prisoner´s Dilemma”. Oral presentation presented at the VI Iberian Primatological Conference, Burgos, Spain 2017, 3rd price talk |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. “Chimpanzees and children coordinate in a Prisoner´s Dilemma”. Oral presentation presented at the XXXIV Behaviour Conference, Estoril, Portugal 2017 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. "Coordination despite conflict in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and children". Oral presentation presented at the XXVI International Primatological Conference, Chicago, USA 2016 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. "Strategic decision-making by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and children in a Snowdrift-Game task". Poster presented at the IV Chimpanzees in Context Simposium, Chicago, USA 2016 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. "Coordination under conflict in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and children". Poster presented at the VIII Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia 2016 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Peretó, M. & Call, J. "Difference in between-reinforcer value modulate the selective value effect in Great Apes". Oral presentation presented at the XXXIII Behaviour Conference, Cairns, Australia 2015 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. "Chimpanzees and children strategic decision-making in Snowdrift Games". Poster presented at the XXXIII Behaviour Conference, Cairns, Australia 2015 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. "Strategic decision-making by chimpanzees and children in a Snowdrift Game". Oral presentation presented at the VI European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference, Helsinki, Finland 2015 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. "Strategic decision-making by chimpanzees in a Snowdrift Game". Oral presentation presented at the II European Student Conference on Behaviour and Cognition, Zurich, Switzerland 2015 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Peretó, M. & Call, J. “Natural Choices of Food in Great Apes". Oral presentation presented at the XIV Gesellschaft für Primatologie Conference, Leipzig, Germany 2015 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Peretó, M. & Call, J. "Natural Choices of Food in Great Apes". Poster presented at the XXV International Primatological, Hanoi, Vietnam 2014 |
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Peretó, M. & Call, J. "Natural Choices of Food in Chimpanzees and Orangutans". Oral presentation presented at the IV Iberian Primatological Conference. Girona, Spain 2013 |
Research Awards & Funding
2021 - 2022 | Forschungskredit project grant (rejected after being awarded) |
2019 - 2020 | DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship SA 3716/1-1 |
2016 | DAAD mobility Fellowship |
2013 - 2015 | LaCaixa Fellowship |
2010, 2012 | AGAUR Mobility Fellowship, Generalitat de Catalunya |
2010 | B.A. with Honors in Biology, Award |
Languages
- Spanish, Catalan (native)
- English (fluent)
- German (basic)
Publications
Kaufhold, S. P., Sánchez Amaro, A., Tan, J., Fernandez-Navarro, S., Atencia, R., & Rossano, F. (2024). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) strategically manipulate their environment to deny conspecifics access to food. Scientific Reports, 14: 17579. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Eirdosh, D., & Haun, D. (2024). Studying Great Apes and Cultural Diversity To Understand the Human Mind. Frontiers for Young Minds, 12: 1337514. |
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Stengelin, R., Bohn, M., Sánchez Amaro, A., Haun, D. B. M., Thiele, M., Daum, M. M., Felsche, E., Fong, F. T. K., Gampe, A., Giner Torréns, M., Grueneisen, S., Hardecker, D. J. K., Horn, L., Neldner, K., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., & Schuhmacher, N. (2024). Responsible research is also concerned with generalizability: Recognizing efforts to reflect upon and increase generalizability in hiring and promotion decisions in psychology. Meta-Psychology, 8. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Maurits, L., & Haun, D. B. M. (2024). Chimpanzees engage in competitive altruism in a triadic ultimatum game. Scientific Reports, 14: 3393. |
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Ebel, S. J., Völter, C. J., Sánchez Amaro, A., Helming, K. A., Herrmann, E., & Call, J. (2024). Functional fixedness in chimpanzees. Scientific Reports, 14: 12155. |
Sánchez Amaro, A., & Rossano, F. (2023). Comparative curiosity: How do great apes and children deal with uncertainty? PLoS One, 18: e0285946. |
ManyPrimates, Aguenounon, G., Allritz, M., Altschul, D., Ballesta, S., Beaud, A., Bohn, M., Bornbusch, S., Brandão, A., Brooks, J., Bugnyar, T., Burkart, J., Bustamante, L., Call, J., Canteloup, C., Cao, C., Caspar, K., da Silva, D., de Sousa, A., DeTroy, S., Duguid, S., Eppley, T., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Gong, C., Grange, J., Grebe, N., Hanus, D., Haun, D., Haux, L., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Helman, A., Hernadi, I., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Herrmann, E., Hopper, L., Howard, L., Huang, L., Huskisson, S., Jacobs, I., Jin, Z., Joly, M., Kano, F., Keupp, S., Kiefer, E., Knakker, B., Kóczán, K., Kraus, L., Kwok, S. C., Lefrançois, M., Lewis, L., Liu, S., Llorente, M., Lonsdorf, E., Loyant, L., Majecka, K., Maurits, L., Meunier, H., Mobili, F., Morino, L., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Nijman, V., Ihomi, C., Persson, T., Pietraszewski, D., Reátiga Parrish, J., Roig, A., Sánchez Amaro, A., Sato, Y., Sauciuc, G.-A., Schrock, A., Schweinfurth, M., Seed, A., Shearer, C., Šlipogor, V., Su, Y., Sutherland, K., Tan, J., Taylor, D., Troisi, C., Völter, C., Warren, E., Watzek, J., & Zablocki-Thomas, P. (2022). The Evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(4), 428-516. |
Sánchez Amaro, A., & Rossano, F. (2021). Chimpanzees and bonobos use social leverage in an ultimatum game. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1962): 20211937. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S. P., Fernández-Navarro, S., & Rossano, F. (2021). How environmental unpredictability and harshness affect chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in risk-choice and temporal discounting tasks. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 135(2), 232-243. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Burkart, J., & Rossano, F. (2021). Marmoset Monkeys overcome dyadic social dilemmas while avoiding mutual defection. Animal Behaviour, 173, 93-104. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Ball, R., & Rossano, F. (2021). Gibbon strategies in a food competition task. Scientific Reports, 11: 9312. |
Sánchez Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2020). Do 7-year-old children understand social leverage? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 199: 104963. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Tan, J., Kaufhold, S. P., & Rossano, F. (2020). Gibbons exploit information about what a competitor can see. Animal Cognition, 23, 289-299. |
ManyPrimates, Altschul, D. M., Beran, M. J., Bohn, M., Call, J., DeTroy, S., Duguid, S. J., Egelkamp, C. L., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Flessert, M., Hanus, D., Haun, D. B. M., Haux, L. M., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Herrmann, E., Hopper, L. M., Joly, M., Kano, F., Keupp, S., Melis, A. P., Motes Rodrigo, A., Ross, S. R., Sánchez Amaro, A., Sato, Y., Schmitt, V., Schweinfurth, M. K., Seed, A. M., Taylor, D., Völter, C. J., Warren, E., & Watzek, J. (2019). Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research. PLoS One, 14(10): e0223675. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Altınok, N., Heintz, C., & Call, J. (2019). Disentangling great apes' decoy-effect bias in a food choice task. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 6, 213-222. |
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Amici, F., Sánchez Amaro, A., Sebastián-Enesco, C., Allritz, M., Cachhione, T., Salazar-Bonet, J., & Rossano, F. (2019). The word order of languages predicts native speakers’ working memory. Scientific Reports, 9: 1124. |
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ManyPrimates, Altschul, D. M., Beran, M. J., Bohn, M., Caspar, K. R., Fichtel, C., Försterling, M., Grebe, N. M., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Kwok, S. C., LLorente, M., Motes Rodrigo, A., Proctor, D., Sánchez Amaro, A., Simpson, E. A., Szabelska, A., Taylor, D., van der Mescht, J., Völter, C. J., & Watzek, J. (2019). Collaborative open science as a way to reproducibility and new insights in primate cognition research. Japanese Psychological Review, 62(103), 205-220. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Chimpanzees and children avoid mutual defection in a social dilemma. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(1), 46-54. |
Sánchez Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2018). Chimpanzees’ understanding of social leverage. PLoS One, 13(12): e0207868. |
Sanchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Chimpanzees, bonobos and children successfully coordinate in conflict situations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1856): 20170259. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A. (2017). Coordination in conflict situations: A comparative investigation of the coordination strategies that children, chimpanzees and bonobos use to solve situations of conflict. PhD Thesis, Universität, Leipzig. |
Sanchez-Amaro, A., & Amici, F. (2016). Markets carefully interpreted: A reply to Kaburu and Newton-Fisher (2016). Animal Behaviour, 119, e7-e13. |
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Sanchez-Amaro, A., Duguid, S., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Chimpanzees coordinate in a snowdrift game. Animal Behaviour, 116, 61-74. |
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Sanchez-Amaro, A., Pereto, M., & 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, 130(1), 1-12. |
Sánchez Amaro, A., & Amici, F. (2015). Are primates out of the market? Animal Behaviour, 110, 51-60. |
Amici, F., Aureli, F., Mundry, R., Sanchez-Amaro, A., Barroso, A. M., Ferretti, J., & Call, J. (2014). Calculated reciprocity? A comparative test with six primate species. Primates, 55(3), 447-457. |