Publications by authors named "A Bosshard"
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- New research shows that non-human animals, like common marmosets, can combine specific vocal calls into longer sequences, challenging the idea that syntax is unique to human language.
- While many studies have focused on simple two-call combinations, this research explores more complex sequences of up to nine calls, indicating potential internal organization in their communication.
- The findings suggest that analyzing the entire repertoire of animal calls is crucial for understanding their combinatorial abilities and comparing them to language syntax.
Climate change mitigation depends on tracking public opinion across populations. Social scientists can collaborate with environmental organizations that conduct surveys among their audiences. We teamed up with the non-profit Milieudefensie, who surveyed Dutch attitudes towards climate change in 2019-2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAbstract: Emerging data in a range of non-human animal species have highlighted a latent ability to combine certain pre-existing calls together into larger structures. Currently, however, the quantification of context-specific call combinations has received less attention. This is problematic because animal calls can co-occur with one another simply through chance alone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper reviews motivations people experience about climate change and integrates recent findings into the BUCkET model of core social goals. We argue that environmentalism is not the main cause of thoughts or behaviors about climate change. Rather, the evolved social needs for Belongingness, Understanding, Control, self-Enhancement, and Trust are more practical intervention targets than the attempt to create environmentalist beliefs or identities.
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