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Sarah Brosnan

Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neuroscience | Acting Chair, Department of Psychology | Co-Director, Language Research Center | Georgia State University

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November 30, 2023

Humans’, capuchins monkeys’, and rhesus macaques’ size judgements shift when stimuli change in frequency→

November 30, 2023/ Sarah Brosnan

Simmons, SMV, Brosnan, SF (2023) Journal of Comparative Psychology

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2023, journal article
decision biases, ecological influences, Simmons
November 30, 2023

Children's endowment effect is impacted by the salience of the object, but not the duration of possession or the object's tangibility→

November 30, 2023/ Sarah Brosnan

Webster, MF, Leverett, KL, Williamson, RA, Brosnan, SF  (2023)  Cognitive Development

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2023, journal article
endowment effect, property, decision biases, decision making, ecological influences, Smith
November 30, 2023

Using an evolutionary approach to improve predictive ability in the social sciences: Property, the endowment effect, and law→

November 30, 2023/ Sarah Brosnan

Brosnan, SF, Jones, OD (2023)  Evolution and Human Behavior

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2023, journal article
endowment effect, decision biases, decision making, evolution of behavior, property
November 29, 2023

Nudges for judges: an experiment on the effect of making sentencing costs explicit→

November 29, 2023/ Sarah Brosnan

Aharoni, E., Kleider, HO, Brosnan, SF, Hoffman, M (2022) Frontiers in Psychology

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2022, journal article
justice, criminal punishment, decision biases
October 15, 2021

Correctional “free lunch”? Cost neglect increases punishment in prosecutors→

October 15, 2021/ Sarah Brosnan

Aharoni, E, Kleider-Offutt, HM, Brosnan, SF (2021) Frontiers in Psychology, section in Forensic and Legal Psychology

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2021, journal article
justice, criminal punishment, decision biases
December 12, 2020

Capuchin and rhesus monkeys show sunk-cost effects in a psychomotor task→

December 12, 2020/ Sarah Brosnan

Watzek, J, Brosnan, SF (2020) Scientific Reports

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2020, journal article
primate cognition, decision biases, decision making, Watzek
December 12, 2020

Slippery scales: Cost prompts selectively modulate sentencing recommendations in laypeople→

December 12, 2020/ Sarah Brosnan

Aharoni, E, Kleider-Offutt, H, Brosnan, SF (2020) PLOS ONE

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2020, journal article
justice, criminal punishment, decision biases
December 12, 2020

Predicting variation in endowment effect magnitudes→

December 12, 2020/ Sarah Brosnan

Jaeger, C, Brosnan, SF, Levin, DT, Jones, OD (2020) Evolution and Human Behavior

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2020, journal article
comparative economics, Human behavior, property, endowment effect, decision biases, decision making, evolution of behavior
December 12, 2020

The price of justice: Cost neglect increases criminal punishment recommendations→

December 12, 2020/ Sarah Brosnan

Aharoni, E, Kleider-Offutt, HM, Brosnan, SF (2019) Legal and Criminological Psychology

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2019, journal article
justice, criminal punishment, decision biases
September 18, 2019

Capuchin and rhesus monkeys but not humans show cognitive flexibility in an optional-switch task→

September 18, 2019/ Sarah Brosnan

Watzek, J, Pope, SM, Brosnan, SF (2019) Scientific Reports

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2019, journal article
primate cognition, decision making, Watzek, decision biases
July 01, 2019

Justice at Any Cost? The Impact of Cost/Benefit Salience on Criminal Punishment Judgments

July 01, 2019/ Sarah Brosnan

Aharoni, E, Kleider-Offutt, HM, Brosnan, SF, Watzek, J (2018) Behavioral Sciences and the Law

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2018, journal article
Watzek, justice, criminal punishment, decision biases
May 28, 2018

(Ir)rational choices of humans, rhesus macaques, and capuchin monkeys in dynamic stochastic environments→

May 28, 2018/ Sarah Brosnan

Watzek, J & Brosnan, SF (2018) Cognition.
 

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2018, journal article
Watzek, primate cognition, decision biases, decision making

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What behavior in economic games tells us about the evolution of non-human species’ economic decision-making behavior

Brosnan, SF (2021) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Experimental Test for Consistent Differences in Ape Societies Emerge in Virtual Worlds

Wilson, BJ, Brosnan, SF, Lonsdorf, EV, Sanz, CM (2020) Scientific Reports

Capuchin and rhesus monkeys show sunk-cost effects in a psychomotor task

Watzek, J, Brosnan, SF (2020) Scientific Reports

Are the roots of human economic systems shared with non-human primates?

Addessi, E, Beran, MJ, Bourgeouis-Gironde, S, Brosnan, SF, Leca, JB (2020) Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Capuchin and rhesus monkeys but not humans show cognitive flexibility in an optional-switch task

Watzek, J, Pope, SM, Brosnan, SF (2019) Scientific Reports

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