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Claire Watson

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University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK
telephone Tel: + 44 (0) 1786 46
fax Fax: + 44 (0) 1786 467641
email
Email: c.f.watson@stir.ac.uk
web Web: www.stir.ac.uk
PhD Research Student
My principal supervisor is Christine Caldwell and I am funded by a departmental studentship.
Section
Psychology. I am a member of the Scottish Primate Research Group and the Psychology Department's Behaviour and Evolution Research Group.
About
I graduated with a degree in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh.
Research

I am researching social learning in the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). My focus is the investigation of the transmission of social behaviours without using food rewards.

Teaching
I teach on various undergraduate Psychology modules including Psy9AK Animal Behaviour and Psy9A4 Brain and Behaviour.
Recent Publications

Watson, C. F. I. and Caldwell, C. A. (in press). Neighbor effects in marmosets: Social contagion of agonism and affiliation in captive Callithrix jacchus. American Journal of Primatology.

Watson, C. F. I. and Caldwell, C. A. (2009). Understanding behavioral traditions in primates: are current experimental approaches too focused on food? International Journal of Primatology, 30, 143-167 PDF (online appendices available at www.evolutionofculture.com - click on 'Publications').

Caldwell, C. A., Watson, C. F. E. and Morris, K. D. (2009). Exploiting flavour preferences of common marmosets to increase palatability of a dry pellet diet. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 116, 244-249 PDF.