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Yuri Kawaguchi

@yurikawaguchi.bsky.social

Postdoc in Nottingham Trent University. My research area is comparative psychology and primatology.

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Excited to share our latest paper on dogs' cross-modal age perception! This is my first study focused on non-primate animals🐕✨
Check it out here: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

23.09.2024 09:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And yes, self-domestication is highly relevant to this so I also have been interested. In our previous study indeed, we found that bonobos' infant faces look younger in many aspects than age-matched chimpanzee faces...

24.06.2024 12:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Drew,
Thank you very much for your interest. That's wonderful! I sent DM.

24.06.2024 12:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Baby face project Why are infants cute? A classic theory suggests that specific facial features in infants (e.g., bigger forehead and eyes, protruding cheeks)  create impressions of cuteness and motivate adults to...

Call for collaboration📢 Do you have primate face images? We are starting a project exploring the form and function of 'babyness' in primate faces. Contact me if you can help!
yurikawaguchi.weebly.com/baby-face-pr...

Our relevant review is just published!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

24.06.2024 09:29 — 👍 0    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Curious about whether chimpanzees enjoy watching baby videos📺🐒? Check out the latest paper on the motivational value of infant video clips for chimpanzees! This is one of the studies in my master thesis and finally we published it!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

15.02.2024 10:26 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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