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Christopher Krupenye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the SNF Agora Institute and secondary faculty at the Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution. His research focuses on comparative cognition, particularly theory of mind, social/physical knowledge, metacognition, logic, and mental time travel in humans, nonhuman primates, and dogs.
Education: B.A. from Connecticut College, Ph.D. from Duke University. Postdoctoral training included the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany), University of St Andrews, and Durham University (UK). He directs the Social & Cognitive Origins Group and the Canine Minds Collaborative, labs exploring the evolutionary origins of social cognition in humans and animals.
Research Interests: Krupenye examines how social and cognitive abilities evolved across species, emphasizing cross-species comparisons to understand uniquely human traits. His work integrates behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, and computational models to study primate and canine cognition.
Key Contributions: Pioneered methods for studying theory of mind in nonhuman primates, demonstrated bonobos' advanced social tracking abilities, and explored canine cognition through collaborative frameworks. His studies highlight shared and divergent cognitive mechanisms across species.
Labs/Teams: Social & Cognitive Origins Group (primate cognition); Canine Minds Collaborative (canine behavior and training).
