Sarah DeTroy

Guest Researcher
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 421
email: sarah_detroy@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Thesis title: Inter-group Variation in Social Behaviours among Chimpanzees
Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Presentations
Research Awards & Funding
Research Interests
- Comparative Psychology
- Primatology
- Social Learning
- Prosociality
- Social Tolerance
- Animal Culture
Curriculum Vitae
Career & Education
2020 - present | Research Associate | PhD Student |
2016 - 2020 | Research Associate | PhD Student |
2014 - 2016 | M.Sc. in Psychology |
2011 - 2014 | B.Sc. in Psychology Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena |
Practical Experience
2015 - 2018 | Field Research in Chimfunshi, Zambia (9 months in total) |
Teaching
2020 | Introduction in R (Guest Lecturer) |
2017 - 2020 | Scientific Reading |
2017 - 2020 | Responsible Approach to Scientific Practice |
2019 | Comparative Development |
2016 - 2017 | Developmental Psychology |
Supervision
2019 - 2020 | Co-Supervisor Master Thesis Project of Nora Slania Topic: “Sex Differences of Handclasp Grooming Behaviour of Wild and Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)” |
2017 - 2018 | Main Supervisor of Master Thesis Project of Bianca Dietrich Topic: “Examining group-level variability in social tolerance of chimpanzees – a longitudinal analysis“ |
2017 | Co-supervisor of the undergraduate student research project Topic: “How does the play behaviour of chimpanzees correlate with hierarchy and daily activity?” |
Memberships
- IPS(International Primate Society)-Member
- GfP (Gesellschaft für Primatologie)-Member
Languages
- English (native)
- German (fluent)
- French (basic)
Publications
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. |
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DeTroy, S., Haun, D. B. M., & Van Leeuwen, E. J. C. (2022). What isn't social tolerance? The past, present, and possible future of an overused term in the field of primatology. Evolutionary Anthropology, 31: evan.21923, pp. 30-44. |
Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., DeTroy, S., Kaufhold, S. P., Dubois, C., Schütte, S., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Chimpanzees behave prosocially in a group-specific manner. Science Advances, 7(9): eabc7982. |
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DeTroy, S. (2021). Apes on a plane: Capturing and comprehending variation in social dynamics among chimpanzees. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. |
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DeTroy, S. E., Ross, C. T., Cronin, K. A., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Cofeeding tolerance in chimpanzees depends on group composition: A longitudinal study across four communities. iScience, 24(3): 102175. |
Haun, D., Liebal, K., Amici, F., Bender, A., Bohn, M., Bräuer, J., Buttelmann, D., Burkart, J., Cacchione, T., DeTroy, S., Faßbender, I., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Gampe, A., Gray, R. D., Horn, L., Oña, L. S., Kärtner, J., Kaminski, J., Kanngießer, P., Keller, H., Köster, M., Kopp, K. S., Kornadt, H.-J., Rakoczy, H., Schuppli, C., Stengelin, R., Trommsdorff, G., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Schaik, C. v. (2020). Ein Plädoyer für die Relevanz der Vergleichenden Psychologie für das Verständnis menschlicher Entwicklung (Kommentare zu Daum, M. M., Greve, W.,Pauen, S., Schuhrke, B. und Schwarzer, G.(2020). Positionspapier der Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie: Ein Versuch einer Standortbestimmung. In: Psychologische Rundschau, 71(1), 24-46). Psychologische Rundschau, 71(1), 40-41. |
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. |
Schweinfurth, M. K., DeTroy, S. E., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2018). Spontaneous social tool use in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 132(4), 455-463. |
Presentations
Oral Presentation: PAEPSY, 2016: Group Differences in Prosociality among Chimpanzees
Oral Presentation: IPS, 2017: Group Differences in Prosociality among Chimpanzees
Poster Presentation: PSGB, 2018: The longitudinal development of Social Tolerance among 4 Groups of Chimpanzees
Poster Presentation: GfP, 2019: The longitudinal development of Social Tolerance among 4 Groups of Chimpanzees
Poster Presentation: EFP/PSGB, 2019: Group differences in Social Learning among Chimpanzees
Accepted Oral Presentation: EHBEA, 2020 (Canceled due to Corona-Virus): The longitudinal development of Social Tolerance among 4 Groups of Chimpanzees
Research Awards & Funding
2018: Best Poster Award, PSGB
2019: Robert-Glaser Conference Grant, 2019 for the EFP/PSB