Andrew Whiten

Andrew Whiten
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Born
David Andrew Whiten

1948 (age 75–76)
Grimsby, England
NationalityBritish
Known forresearch in social cognition
TitleProfessor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology; Professor Wardlaw Emeritus at University of St Andrews in Scotland
Awards
  • 2001 Delwart International Scientific Prize
  • 2007 Rivers Memorial Medal
  • 2007 Osman Hill Medal
  • 2014 Sir James Black Medal
  • 2015 Senior Prize and Medal for Public Engagement
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
Main interestsevolution of social cognition in human and non-human primates
WebsiteAndrew Whiten

David Andrew Whiten, known as Andrew Whiten (born 1948) is a British zoologist and psychologist, Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Psychology, and Professor Wardlaw Emeritus at University of St Andrews in Scotland.[1][2] He is known for his research in social cognition, specifically on social learning, tradition and the evolution of culture, social Machiavellian intelligence, autism and imitation, as well as the behavioral ecology of sociality.[3] In 1996, Whiten and his colleagues invented an artificial fruit that allowed to study learning in apes and humans.[4][5]

  1. ^ Professor Andrew Whiten. britac.ac.uk
  2. ^ Professor Andrew Whiten has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Senior Prize and Medal for Public Engagement Archived 8 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine. st-andrews.ac.uk, April 17, 2015
  3. ^ Professor Andrew Whiten: Osman Hill Memorial Lecturer, 2010 Archived 7 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine. In: Primate Eye. Primate Society of Great Britain. No. 102. October 2010. p. 3-4
  4. ^ A. Whiten et al.: Imitative learning of artificial fruit processing in children (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), 1996. In: Journal of comparative psychology 110 (1), 3. doi:10.1037/0735-7036.110.1.3
  5. ^ Ludwig Huber: Social learning affects object exploration and manipulation in keas, Nestor notabilis. In: Animal Behaviour, 2001, 62, 945–954 doi:10.1006/anbe.2001.1822