In a 2011 Psychology Today post called "What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Human Behavior," Michael Michalko described an experiment involving five monkeys, a ladder, and a banana.

Yeah, so, that's actually a completely unrelated logic problem used to describe decision making and learning in artificial intelligence.In the hypothetical experiment, a monkey is in a room with a ...

First comes fire, followed by the monkey. The baby on the floor next to the unsmiling woman. The burning newspaper just beyond the baby’s grasp. The tiny monkey on a leash, led by the man in the ...

HE MAKES A STUDY OF MONKEY TRICKS; Harvard Exponent of Animal Psychology to Spend Summer Among Zoo Simians. TO LIVE IN THEIR QUARTERS Special Cage to be Fitted Up for the Study of Their Imitative ...

FURTHER MIND TESTS FOR BRONX MONKEYS; Keepers in the Primates' House Continue Experiments Begun by Prof. Haggerty. MANY NEW TRICKS TAUGHT Monkeys Learn to Open a Safe Combination and Use a ...

The theory-of-mind experiment is designed to test whether the monkeys, who obsessively guard their own food, assume that people do the same. If so, Santos reasons, they should prefer to steal from ...

In experiments, monkeys make some ‘financial’ decisions which are remarkably similar to those made by humans. This story is from Monkey Money, an episode of The Big Idea on BBC World Service ...

Harry Harlow’s most famous experiments involved isolating an infant rhesus monkey until it was socially and emotionally devastated. Less well-known is the experiment in which he revived them ...

In the world of animal research, there has long been a clear hierarchy of intelligence. Monkeys are at the top, naturally. Then come rats, the workhorses of the psychology lab. And down at the ...

Little Albert was the baby at the heart of one of psychology’s most controversial experiments – now considered “medical misogyny.” For decades nobody knew the identity of the infant, who ...

Garcia-Pelegrin, now a psychology professor at the National University of Singapore, has practiced magic for a decade and conducted these experiments during his PhD work at Cambridge University.

In a 2011 Psychology Today post called "What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Human Behavior," Michael Michalko described an experiment involving five monkeys, a ladder, and a banana.