Dr. Robert Seyfarth
3720 Walnut St. Room D7
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Ph: 215-898-9349
Em: seyfarth@psych.upenn.edu |
Dr. Robert Seyfarth
Professor,
Department of Psychology,
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Seyfarth graduated from Harvard College in 1970. In 1976, he received his PhD from Cambridge University, where his advisor was Robert A. Hinde. Then, together with Dorothy Cheney (now professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania). Seyfarth was a post-doctoral fellow at Rockefeller University, where he worked with Peter Marler. At Rockefeller, Cheney and Seyfarth began an 11-year study of social behavior and communication among vervet monkeys in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. This work is described in How Monkeys See the World (Cheney & Seyfarth, University of Chicago Press, 1990). In 1981, Seyfarth and Cheney moved to UCLA and in 1985 joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently professor of
Psychology.
In 1992, Seyfarth and Cheney began a 16-year study of communication,
cognition, and behavior among baboons in the Moremi Game Reserve,
Botswana. This work is described in Baboon Metaphysics (Cheney &
Seyfarth, University of Chicago Press, 2007). |
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