Emily J. E. Messer

Activities

Activities per year 2002 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2023 2025

• 11 Oral presentation
• 10 Publication peer-review
• 6 Participation in Festival or Exhibition
• 5 Invited talk
• 7 More
  • 2 Membership of network
  • 2 Public lecture
  • 1 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
  • 1 Consultancy
  • 1 Other

Activities per year

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• What’s social about prosociality? Social influences on sharing in 4–8-year-olds.

  Messer, E. J. E. (Invited speaker), Jennings, D. (Contributor), Galabova, K. (Contributor), Brennan, K. (Contributor), Lucan, G. (Contributor), Pascal, E. (Contributor), Cristea, M. (Contributor) & McGuigan, N. (Contributor)

  5 Feb 2025

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Investigating sibling effects on young children’s sharing: a comparison between Bulgaria, Romania, and Scotland

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker), Galabova, K. (Contributor), Spencer, D. (Contributor), Brennan, K. (Contributor), Lucan, G. (Contributor), Pascal, E. (Contributor), McGuigan, N. (Contributor) & Cristea, M. (Contributor)

  3 May 2025

  Activity: Other

• Pint of Science

  Messer, E. J. E. (Organiser), Hui, N. (Organiser), Fairweather, A. (Organiser), Uwhubetine, A. (Organiser), Kotsiopoulou, L. (Organiser) & Bethune, E. (Organiser)

  May 2024

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Festival or Exhibition

• Cognitive Development (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Feb 2023

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Investigating sibling effects on young children’s sharing: A comparison between Bulgaria and Scotland

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker), Galabova, K. (Contributor), Spencer, D. (Contributor), McGuigan, N. (Contributor) & Cristea, M. (Contributor)

  1 Sept 2023

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Evolution and Human Behavior (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Jul 2023

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Memory and Cognition (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Sept 2021

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Developmental Science (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Feb 2020

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Monkey See, Monkey Do?! Learning and Behaviour in Primates

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker)

  2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture

• Two scientists walk into a bar

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker)

  2020

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Festival or Exhibition

• American Journal of Primatology (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Jun 2020

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Royal Society Open Science (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Oct 2020

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Social Development (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  May 2019

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Young children’s donating behaviour is influenced by viewing generous - but not egalitarian – majorities

  Messer, E. J. E. (Invited speaker) & McGuigan, N. (Contributor)

  2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Social influences in the emergence and transmission of behaviour.

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker)

  2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Current Anthropology (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Jun 2018

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Evolutionary Human Sciences (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Oct 2018

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Scientific Reports (Journal)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Peer reviewer)

  Mar 2018

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review

• Exploathon'17

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker)

  2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Festival or Exhibition

• Science Fun Day

  Messer, E. J. E. (Organiser) & McGuigan, N. (Organiser)

  2017

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

• Are you smarter than a monkey?

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker) & O'Sullivan, E. (Speaker)

  2017

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Public lecture

• Social and non-social influences on prosocial donating in young children

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker) & McGuigan, N. (Contributor)

  2016

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The role of social experience on young children’s donating behaviour.

  Messer, E. J. E. (Invited speaker) & McGuigan, N. (Contributor)

  2016

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Social and Non-Social Influences on Young Children's Prosocial Donating

  Messer, E. J. E. (Invited speaker) & McGuigan, N. (Contributor)

  2016

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Edinburgh International Science Festival

  Messer, E. J. E. (Organiser)

  2016

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Festival or Exhibition

• Does Darwinian evolution disprove God?

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker)

  2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Effects of conformity on social learning in children

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker), Claidiere, N. (Contributor), Lancaster, I. (Contributor), Lunkka, M. (Contributor), McGuigan, N. (Contributor) & Whiten, A. (Contributor)

  2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Explorathon'15

  Messer, E. J. E. (Organiser)

  2015

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Festival or Exhibition

• Why Do Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus sp.) Anoint with Onions?

  Messer, E. J. E. (Invited speaker), Bowler, M. (Contributor), Claidiere, N. (Contributor) & Whiten, A. (Contributor)

  2014

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• The use of social network analysis in experimental studies of social learning: the diffusion of socially learnt foraging techniques in common squirrel monkeys

  Messer, E. J. E. (Invited speaker), Claidiere, N. (Contributor), Hoppitt, W. (Contributor) & Whiten, A. (Contributor)

  28 Sept 2014

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Edinburgh International Science Festival

  Messer, E. J. E. (Organiser) & Macri, A. (Organiser)

  2014

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in Festival or Exhibition

• Heterospecific social learning between capuchin and squirrel monkeys.

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker) & Whiten, A. (Contributor)

  2013

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Social learning in Cebines.

  Messer, E. J. E. (Invited speaker), Claidiere, N. (Contributor) & Whiten, A. (Contributor)

  2013

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Network centrality predicts the diffusion of socially learnt foraging techniques in common squirrel monkeys.

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker), Claidiere, N. (Contributor) & Whiten, A. (Contributor)

  2013

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Social learning and the transmission of foraging techniques in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus).

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker), Claidiere, N. (Contributor), Hoppitt, W. (Contributor) & Whiten, A. (Contributor)

  2012

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Social learning in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus): diffusion of a novel foraging technique.

  Messer, E. J. E. (Speaker), Claidiere, N. (Contributor) & Whiten, A. (Contributor)

  2011

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (External organisation)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Member)

  2011

  Activity: Membership › Membership of network

• Scottish Primate Research Group (External organisation)

  Messer, E. J. E. (Member)

  2009

  Activity: Membership › Membership of network

• God and the Big Bang

  Messer, E. J. E. (Consultant)

  2002 → …

  Activity: Consultancy