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
DeTroy, S. E., Hirata, S., Nakamura, M., Haun, D. B. M., & Van Leeuwen, E. J. C. (2023). Evolution of Humanity: English Translation of the Original Essay by Kinji Imanishi. Including Commentaries by Contemporary Scholars (advance online). International Journal of Primatology. |
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