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Melissa Bateson
Researcher at Newcastle University
Publications - 142
Citations - 9231
Melissa Bateson is an academic researcher from Newcastle University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sturnus & Foraging. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 139 publications receiving 8071 citations. Previous affiliations of Melissa Bateson include University of Newcastle & Duke University.
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Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting
TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of an image of a pair of eyes on contributions to an honesty box used to collect money for drinks in a university coffee room and found that people paid nearly three times more for their drinks when eyes were displayed rather than a control image.
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Risky Theories—The Effects of Variance on Foraging Decisions
Alex Kacelnik,Melissa Bateson +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that when risk is generated by variability in the amount of reward, animals are most frequently risk-averse and sometimes indifferent to risk, although in some studies preference depends on energy budget.
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Agitated Honeybees Exhibit Pessimistic Cognitive Biases
TL;DR: This work asks whether honeybees display a pessimistic cognitive bias when they are subjected to an anxiety-like state induced by vigorous shaking designed to simulate a predatory attack and shows that the bees' response to a negatively valenced event has more in common with that of vertebrates than previously thought.
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Effects of eye images on everyday cooperative behavior: a field experiment
TL;DR: This paper found a halving of the odds of littering in the presence of posters featuring eyes, as compared to posters featuring flowers, suggesting that the effect of eye images cannot be explained by their drawing attention to verbal instructions.
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Environmental enrichment induces optimistic cognitive bias in rats
TL;DR: It is demonstrated for the first time that environmental enrichment can induce an optimistic cognitive bias in rats previously housed in standard caging, possibly indicative of a more positive affective state.