Emilie Constance Rapport Munro
Postdoc
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
e-mail:
emilie_rapport@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research interests
- Great ape social cognition
- Metarepresentation
- Cross-cultural social cognition
- Appearance-Reality distinctions
- Theory of Mind
- Level 2 Perspective Taking
- Aspectuality
- False Belief attribution
Curriculum Vitae
Career & Education
| 2025 - present | Postdoctoral researcher Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 2021-2025 | PhD, Origins of Mind research group, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews (supervisor: Professor Josep Call) |
| 2017-2020 | BA Biological Sciences, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford |
Languages
- English (mother tongue)
- French (fluent)
- Spanish (fluent)
- German (intermediate)
Teaching & Reviewer
- Graduate teaching assistant, University of St Andrews
- Reviewer for the Journal of Comparative Psychology
Projects & Partners
- Cognitive Foundations of Social Minds
Memberships
- International Primatological Society
Presentations
- IPS Congress 2025
- EFP 2024
- DuCog 2024
- Diverse Intelligences Summit 2023
- DuCog 2023
Research Awards & Funding
- Beneficiary of grant for Cognitive Foundations of Social Minds project, Templeton World Charity Foundation
Publications
Rapport Munro, E., Allritz, M., Schweller, K., Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2025) Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) attribute preferences to virtual competitors?. PLoS One, 20(9), e0329468.
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Rapport Munro, E., Koopman, S., Anderson, S. P., Schweller, K., Röhr, H., Kleiman-Weiner, M., Lewis, R., Klein, B., Allritz, M., Robinson, L. M., Dolins, F. L., & Call, J. (2025). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Bonobos (Pan paniscus) Chase Prey Around Obstacles in Virtual Environments. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 139(3), 155-177.
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Rapport Munro, E. & Call, J. (2024, July 24). Animal Cognition. Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
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McEwen, E. S., Allritz, M., Call, J., Koopman, S., Rapport Munro, E., Bottero Cantuarias, C. J., Menzel, C. R., Dolins, F. L., Janmaat, K. R. L., & Schweller, K. (2024). Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments. Behavioural Processes, 224, 105126.
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McEwen, E. S., Warren, E., Tenpas, S., Jones, B., Durdevic, K., Rapport Munro, E., & Call, J. (2022). Primate cognition in zoos: Reviewing the impact of zoo-based research over 15 years. American Journal of Primatology, 2022;e23369.
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