Psychology & Neuroscience: Recent submissions

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    • Sexual selection and trust games 

      Stirrat, Michael (University of St Andrews, 2010-06-23) - Thesis
      In economic games the facial attributes of counterparts bias decisions to trust and decisions to enter play. We report research supporting hypotheses that trust and reciprocation decisions in trust games are biased by ...

    • Behavioural phenotyping of mice with genetic alterations of the GABA[subscript A] receptor 

      Foister, Nicola (University of St Andrews, 2010-06-23) - Thesis
      GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system. GABA[subscript A]Rs are multimeric transmembrane receptors, which are composed of 5 subunits. It is known that there are 19 subunits that can make ...

    • The maker not the tool: The cognitive significance of great ape manual skills 

      Byrne, RW (Mcdonald Institute, 2005) - Book item
      Tool-use by chimpanzees has attracted disproportionate attention among primatologists, because of an understandable wish to understand the evolutionary origins of hominin tool use. In archaeology and paleoanthropology, a ...

    • The manual skills and cognition that lie behind hominid tool use 

      Byrne, RW (Cambridge University Press, 2004) - Book item
      Tool use is an important aspect of being human that has assumed a central place in accounts of the evolutionary origins of human intelligence. This has inevitably focused a spotlight on any signs of tool use or manufacture ...

    • Group identification and perceived discrimination : a study of international students in the UK 

      Ramos, Miguel R. (University of St Andrews, 2010-06-23) - Thesis
      This thesis examined how international students experience life in the UK and, in particular, how these students respond to experiences with discrimination and social exclusion. Specifically, we drew on the rejection-i ...