Sarah-Jane Vick
Biographic Data
| ID | 112721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah-Jane Vick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah-Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Vick |
| SIGNATURE | VICK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8741-9653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Engaging Zoo Visitors at Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Exhibits Promotes Positive Attitudes Toward Chimpanzees and Conservation
Understanding how visitor engagement with interpretation impacts on their attitudes to conservation is necessary to develop effective zoo-based conservation education. We examined whether facilitating an emotional connection between a visitor and an individual chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) was more successful at enhancing attitudes than standard zoo interpretation. Attitudes were assessed post visit using a 12-item questionnaire on predisposition …
You Think You’re Helping Them, But They’re Helping You Too”
Interaction with animals can be beneficial to humans and animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) are increasingly popular in a range of contexts. Dog training programs (DTPs) are the most popular form of AAI in custodial contexts; prisoners often have multiple needs and DTPs seem to facilitate a diverse range of positive outcomes, including improvements in well-being, behavior, and offending behavior. However, evidence on the efficacy of prison-base…
Eye preferences in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)
A structure-based repertoire of manual gestures in wild chimpanzees
Cognitive Research in Zoo‐Housed Chimpanzees
We monitored chimpanzee welfare during the introduction of on‐exhibit cognitive research training and testing, as measured by behavior and interest in such training, and related individual variation to personality assessments. We observed 11 chimpanzees (six males; five females) over a 16‐month period and compared their behavior across three conditions: (1) Baseline (nontraining/research situations) and (2) an on‐going, off‐exhibit program of H u…
Variation and context of yawns in captive chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )
Primate yawns are usually categorized according to context (e.g. as a threat, anxious, or rest yawn), but there has been little consideration of whether these yawns are best regarded as a unitary behavior that only differs with respect to the context in which it is observed. This study examined the context and precise morphology of yawns in a group of 11 captive chimpanzees. Focal video sampling was used to describe the morphology and intensity o…
Brief communication
Over 125 years ago, Charles Darwin (1872) suggested that the only way to fully understand the form and function of human facial expression was to make comparisons with other species. Nevertheless, it has been only recently that facial expressions in humans and related primate species have been compared using systematic, anatomically based techniques. Through this approach, large‐scale evolutionary and phylogenetic analyses of facial expressions, …
Does It Bite? The Role of Stimuli Characteristics on Preschoolers' Interactions with Robots, Insects and a Dog
While there is increasing interest in the impact of animal interactions upon children’s wellbeing and attitudes, there has been less attention paid to the specific characteristics of the animals which attract and engage children. We used a within-subjects design to explore how differences in animal features (such as their animacy, size, and texture) impacted upon pre-school children’s social and emotional responses. This study examined pre-school…
Measurement of eye‐gaze in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )
Gaze cues are used as an index of social cognition in primates, yet the sensitivity to different forms of gaze, and consequently the cues required to test gaze‐following abilities remain understudied. Whereas the eye is attributed special signal value in humans, the camouflaged ocular morphology of non‐human primates has led to the consensus that head orientation may be a more salient cue. This study presents the first documentation of the surfac…
Classifying chimpanzee facial expressions using muscle action
The Chimpanzee Facial Action Coding System (ChimpFACS) is an objective, standardized observational tool for measuring facial movement in chimpanzees based on the well-known human Facial Action Coding System (FACS; P. Ekman & W. V. Friesen, 1978). This tool enables direct structural comparisons of facial expressions between humans and chimpanzees in terms of their common underlying musculature. Here the authors provide data on the first applicatio…
Intramuscular electrical stimulation of facial muscles in humans and chimpanzees
The pioneering work of Duchenne (1862/1990) was replicated in humans using intramuscular electrical stimulation and extended to another species (Pan troglodytes: chimpanzees) to facilitate comparative facial expression research. Intramuscular electrical stimulation, in contrast to the original surface stimulation, offers the opportunity to activate individual muscles as opposed to groups of muscles. In humans, stimulation resulted in appearance c…
Brief communication
Over 125 years ago, Charles Darwin (1872) suggested that the only way to fully understand the form and function of human facial expression was to make comparisons with other species. Nevertheless, it has been only recently that facial expressions in humans and related primate species have been compared using systematic, anatomically based techniques. Through this approach, large‐scale evolutionary and phylogenetic analyses of facial expressions, …
Does It Bite? The Role of Stimuli Characteristics on Preschoolers' Interactions with Robots, Insects and a Dog
While there is increasing interest in the impact of animal interactions upon children’s wellbeing and attitudes, there has been less attention paid to the specific characteristics of the animals which attract and engage children. We used a within-subjects design to explore how differences in animal features (such as their animacy, size, and texture) impacted upon pre-school children’s social and emotional responses. This study examined pre-school…
Intramuscular electrical stimulation of facial muscles in humans and chimpanzees
The pioneering work of Duchenne (1862/1990) was replicated in humans using intramuscular electrical stimulation and extended to another species (Pan troglodytes: chimpanzees) to facilitate comparative facial expression research. Intramuscular electrical stimulation, in contrast to the original surface stimulation, offers the opportunity to activate individual muscles as opposed to groups of muscles. In humans, stimulation resulted in appearance c…
Measurement of eye‐gaze in chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )
Gaze cues are used as an index of social cognition in primates, yet the sensitivity to different forms of gaze, and consequently the cues required to test gaze‐following abilities remain understudied. Whereas the eye is attributed special signal value in humans, the camouflaged ocular morphology of non‐human primates has led to the consensus that head orientation may be a more salient cue. This study presents the first documentation of the surfac…
Classifying chimpanzee facial expressions using muscle action
The Chimpanzee Facial Action Coding System (ChimpFACS) is an objective, standardized observational tool for measuring facial movement in chimpanzees based on the well-known human Facial Action Coding System (FACS; P. Ekman & W. V. Friesen, 1978). This tool enables direct structural comparisons of facial expressions between humans and chimpanzees in terms of their common underlying musculature. Here the authors provide data on the first applicatio…
Variation and context of yawns in captive chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes )
Primate yawns are usually categorized according to context (e.g. as a threat, anxious, or rest yawn), but there has been little consideration of whether these yawns are best regarded as a unitary behavior that only differs with respect to the context in which it is observed. This study examined the context and precise morphology of yawns in a group of 11 captive chimpanzees. Focal video sampling was used to describe the morphology and intensity o…
Brief communication
Over 125 years ago, Charles Darwin (1872) suggested that the only way to fully understand the form and function of human facial expression was to make comparisons with other species. Nevertheless, it has been only recently that facial expressions in humans and related primate species have been compared using systematic, anatomically based techniques. Through this approach, large‐scale evolutionary and phylogenetic analyses of facial expressions, …
Does It Bite? The Role of Stimuli Characteristics on Preschoolers' Interactions with Robots, Insects and a Dog
While there is increasing interest in the impact of animal interactions upon children’s wellbeing and attitudes, there has been less attention paid to the specific characteristics of the animals which attract and engage children. We used a within-subjects design to explore how differences in animal features (such as their animacy, size, and texture) impacted upon pre-school children’s social and emotional responses. This study examined pre-school…
A structure-based repertoire of manual gestures in wild chimpanzees
Cognitive Research in Zoo‐Housed Chimpanzees
We monitored chimpanzee welfare during the introduction of on‐exhibit cognitive research training and testing, as measured by behavior and interest in such training, and related individual variation to personality assessments. We observed 11 chimpanzees (six males; five females) over a 16‐month period and compared their behavior across three conditions: (1) Baseline (nontraining/research situations) and (2) an on‐going, off‐exhibit program of H u…
Eye preferences in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)
You Think You’re Helping Them, But They’re Helping You Too”
Interaction with animals can be beneficial to humans and animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) are increasingly popular in a range of contexts. Dog training programs (DTPs) are the most popular form of AAI in custodial contexts; prisoners often have multiple needs and DTPs seem to facilitate a diverse range of positive outcomes, including improvements in well-being, behavior, and offending behavior. However, evidence on the efficacy of prison-base…
Engaging Zoo Visitors at Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Exhibits Promotes Positive Attitudes Toward Chimpanzees and Conservation
Understanding how visitor engagement with interpretation impacts on their attitudes to conservation is necessary to develop effective zoo-based conservation education. We examined whether facilitating an emotional connection between a visitor and an individual chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) was more successful at enhancing attitudes than standard zoo interpretation. Attitudes were assessed post visit using a 12-item questionnaire on predisposition …
Psychology (11 works) · Biology (6 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 works) · Communication (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works) · Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Troglodytes (4 works)