Wilson Filipe da Silva Vieira

Doctoral Student

Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 423
email: wilson_vieira@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Presentations
Research Awards & Funding

Research Interests

Cross-cultural psychology
Cognitive Flexibility
Cultural Evolution
Comparative psychology
Field Research
Ecology of Humans and other Apes

Curriculum Vitate

Career and Education

2020 - present	Research Associate/ PhD Student Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2016 - 2018	M. Sc. in Anthropology Faculty of Social and Humane Sciences New University of Lisbon- Lisbon, Portugal
08/2015 - 09/2015	Alumnus Tropical Biology Association Makerere University Biological Field Station, Kibale National Park, Uganda
09/2014 - 12/2014	Intern Researcher Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Uatumã Biological Reserve, Amazon, Brazil
2011 - 2014	B.Sc. in Biology Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Practical Experience

01/2019 - 10/2019	Manager/ Research Assistant Bonobo Alive Project Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Mai-Ndombe province, Democratic Republic of Congo
01/2018 - 03/2018	Research Fellow Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) Lisbon, Portugal “Paisagens em risco: uma abordagem interdisciplinar para analisar a sustentabilidade da coexistência entre humanos e chimpanzés” Project
07/2017 - 12/2017	Research Fellow Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) Cantanhez National Park, Tombali, Guinea-Bissau “Paisagens em risco: uma abordagem interdisciplinar para analisar a sustentabilidade da coexistência entre humanos e chimpanzés” Project
02/2017 - 06/2017	Research Fellow Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) Cantanhez National Park, Tombali, Guinea-Bissau “Paisagens em risco: uma abordagem interdisciplinar para analisar a sustentabilidade da coexistência entre humanos e chimpanzés” Project
04/2015 - 10/ 2015	Research Assistant Primate Cognition Research Group Lagos Zoo, Algarve, Portugal
06/2014	Volunteer Researcher Grupo Lopo Project Trás-os-Montes, Portugal

Languages

Portuguese (Native)
English (Fluent)
French (Intermediate)
Spanish (Basic)
Guinea-Bissau creole (Fluent)

Publications

Bohn, M., Vieira, W. F. d. S., Giner Torréns, M., Kärtner, J., Itakura, S., Cavalcante, L., Haun, D. B. M., Köster, M., & Kanngiesser, P. (2022). Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts. PsyArXiv.
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	Naude, V. N., Becker, F. S., Mayberry, J. L., Viera, W. F., & du Toit, J. T. (2019). Logging roads as surrogates for elephant trails: Facilitating social signaling by small forest ungulates despite increasing risks. Conservation Science and Practice, 1(7): e43. DOI BibTeX Endnote
	Viera, W. F., Kerry, C., & Hockings, K. J. (2019). A comparison of methods to determine chimpanzee home-range size in a forest–farm mosaic at Madina in Cantanhez National Park, Guinea-Bissau. Primates, 60(4), 355-365. DOI BibTeX Endnote

Vieira, W. F. d. S. (2018). Chimpanzee use of space in a forest-agricultural mosaic at Madina in Cantanhez National Park, Guinea-Bissau. Master Thesis, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon.
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Presentations

Poster Presentation: Vieira, W. F., Hockings K. J. Home range and distribution of an unhabituated free-ranging Western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) community in a forest-agricultural mosaic at Madina in Cantanhez National Park, Guinea-Bissau. Poster presented in XXVII Congress of the International Primatological Society, Kenya, August 2018.

Poster Presentation: Brandão A, Rodrigues D, Costa R, Peixoto L, Vieira W, Vicente L. Primate Personality: Preliminary results of a comparative study. Podium presentation in V Iberian Primatological Congress, Portugal, November 2015.

Poster Presentation: Pacheco I, Castelo Branco J, Ramos R, Vieira W. Vigilance behaviour of Oryz gazella and Aepycerus melampus petersi on the presence of visitors in the Lisbon zoo. Poster presented in XI Portuguese Etology Society Congress, Portugal, October 2014.

Research Awards & Funding

2018: Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) Fellowship Grant

2017: Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) Fellowship Grant

Departments and Groups