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Bennett G. Galef
Emeritus Professor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Address:
82 Fountain View Lane
Durham, NC 27705-9310
USA
Phone: (919) 886-1330
E-mail: galef@mcmaster.ca
Personal Information
Citizen of both Canada and U.S.A.
Married to Mertice M. Clark, Canadian citizen U. S. Resident Alien
Educational Background
Degree |
Institution |
Year |
Field |
B.A. |
Princeton University |
1962 |
Psychology |
M.A. |
University of Pennsylvania |
1964 |
Experimental Psychology |
Ph.D. |
University of Pennsylvania |
1968 |
Physiological & Comparative Psychology |
Grants at McMaster University
McMaster University Research Board Grants, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1979-1981, 1983-1992.
National Research Council of Canada grant APA-307. Agonistic behaviour in wild, domesticated, and septally lesioned Norway rats, 1969-1971.
National Research Council of Canada grant A-0307. Weaning and aggressive behaviour in wild rats. 1971-1974.
National Research Council of Canada grant A-0307. The social and aggressive behaviour of wild rats. 1974-1977.
National Research Council of Canada grant A-0307. Social transmission of acquired behaviour. 1977-1980.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant A-0307.
Development of social attachment in rats. 1980-1983.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grants A-0307 and E5737. The rat burrow as information-centre. 1983-1986.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grants A-307, IC0255 and E0262. Social feeding and diet sampling in rats. 1986-1989.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grants A-307 and EQP0038199. Social feeding and social foraging in animals. 1989-1992.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grants 0GP0000307 and EQP0123733. Social influences on the feeding behaviour of Norway rats. 1992-1996.
Human Frontier Science Program (with C.M. Heyes). Workshop on Social Learning and Tradition in Animals, 1994.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grants OGP0000307 and EQPO187099. Social learning and tradition in animals. 1996-2001.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant #307-2001. Social influences on the food choices of rats and mate choices of quail. 2001-2006.
NIAAA Exploratory and Development Grant (with N.E. Spear). Early experience and adolescents’ responses to ethanol. 2001-2005.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant. Studies of animal social learning. 2006-2010.
Professional Associations
AAAS | American Society for Mammalogists |
APA | International Society for Developmental Psychobiology |
CPA | International Society for Comparative Psychology |
EPA | Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior |
Animal Behavior Society | International Society for Behavioral Ecology |
Psychonomic Society | Canadian Society for Brain,Behaviour and Cognitive Science |
Sigma Xi | |
Academic Positions
McMaster University |
|
Department of Psychology | Visiting Professor |
Assistant Professor | Department of Psychology |
July, 1968 - July, 1972 | University of Colorado |
Associate Professor | January - December, 1981 |
July, 1972 - July 1978 | January - September, 1984 |
Professor | January - September, 1987 |
July, 1987 - January, 2003 | January - September, 1989 |
Emeritus Professor | January - September, 1993 |
January, 2003 - present | |
Visiting Scientist | Visiting Professor |
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute | Department of Physiology |
Barro Colorado Island, Panama | University of New England |
May - Dec., 1974 | Armidale, NSW, Australia |
June - Aug., 1985 | |
Affiliated Scientist | Visiting Professor |
Monell Chemical Senses Center | Department of Zoology |
Sept., 1987 - Aug., 1996 | University of Tel Aviv |
July - Aug., 1986 | |
Visiting Scholar | Associate Member |
Department of Psychology | Department of Biology |
Macquarie University, April 2005 | McMaster University |
Adjunct Professor
Department of Biology
Duke University
Jan., 2017-
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September, 1982 - 2013
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Honours
AB degree awarded Magna cum Laude
Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Elected to Sigma Xi
Elected Fellow of Division 6 of the American Psychological Association
Elected Fellow of Division 3 of the American Psychological Association
Elected Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Elected Fellow of the American Psychological Society
Awarded the Denver Wildlife Center of the United States Department of
Agriculture Citation for Outstanding Publication
Elected to the Board of Directors of the McMaster Museum of Art
Elected Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society
Elected President of the Animal Behavior Society
Lifetime Contribution Award: St. Andrews University, Scotland
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Anmal Behavior Society: Exceptional Service Award (2009); Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award (2014)
Services to the Scientific Community
Member, Grant Selection Committee, Psychology Section, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 1978-1981, 2001-2002.
Member, Ontario Graduate Scholarships Selection Committee, 1978; Panel Chairman, 1987, 1988.
Founder and Co-organizer, Winter Animal Behavior Conferences, 1978-1984, 1998, 2003.
Member, Dean's Committee of Evaluation, Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland, 1980.
Member, Board of Directors: International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, 1983-1986.
Guest Editor: Appetite, 6(4), 1985.
Member, American Psychological Association Search Committee for the editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, 1986-1987, 1998-1999, 2022.
Member, Advisory Council of the Department of Psychology, Princeton University, 1986-1993.
Member, Ad Hoc Ethics Committee of the Animal Behavior Society, 1986-1987
Member, Ad Hoc Committee of the Provost of Columbia University, 1988
Member-at-large, Executive Committee, Animal Behavior Society, 1991-1994
Co-Director (with M. Mainardi), International School of Ethology Workshop, "Ontogeny and Social transmission of food preferences in mammals: basic and applied research." Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily: June 8 -13, 1992.
Co-organizer (with S. Clarke and S. Yoerg) of an invited symposium "Comparative Psychology of Animal Behavior" at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Kingston, Ont., June, 1992.
Chair, Program Committee of Division 6 of the American Psychological Association, 1993.
Member, Executive Committee of Division 6 of the American Psychological Association, 1993.
Co-organizer (with Cecilia Heyes) "Social learning and tradition in animals" funded by the Human Frontier Science Program, Madingly, UK. August, 22-26, 1994.
Topic Area Chair, Program Committee, XXVIth International Congress of Psychology, 1994–1996.
Member: Ad hoc Investments Committee, Animal Behavior Society, 1994, 1997-1998, Chair, 1999–2015.
Chair, ABS-ASAB, Liaison Committee of the Animal Behavior Society, 1997-2000, Member 2000-2003.
Ex-officio Member, Executive Committee of the Animal Behavior Society, 1997-2005.
2nd President-elect. Animal Behavior Society, 2001.
1st President-elect. Animal Behavior Society, 2002.
President, Animal Behavior Society, 2003.
Past-President, Animal Behavior Society, 2004 2005.
Organizer of an invited symposium. Social learning and imitation at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL, May, 2003.
Canadian representative to the International Council of Ethology, 2003.
Participant in the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology Metadata Conference, Ithaca, New York, April, 2004.
Guest Editor (with Celia Heyes): Social Learning and Imitation. Learning & Behavior, 32(1), 2004.
Host of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Snowbird, Utah (2006).
Section Editor for social learning. Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Oxford: Academic Press, 2007-2010.
Guest Editor (with Carel van Schaik and Rachel Kendal). Capturing Social Learning in Natural Contexts: Methodological Insights and Implications for Culture. Special Issue of Learning & Behavior. 2010.
Editorial Boards
Developmental Psychobiology, Editorial Board, 1979-1995
Learning and Motivation, Associate Editor, 1982-2000
Appetite, Editorial Advisory Board, 1983-1999, Advisory Editor, 2000-2007
Animal Behaviour, Editorial Board, 1985-1988, Associate Editor, 1994-1997,
Editor 1997-1998, Executive Editor, 1998-2000, Editorial Board, 2000-2020
Journal of Comparative Psychology, Consulting Editor, 1988-2023
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Editorial Board, 1989-1996
Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, Editorial Advisory Board, 1995-2015
Foundations of Animal Behavior, University of Chicago Press. Editorial Board, 1995.
Evolution of Communication, Editorial Board, 1996-2003
Animal Learning & Behavior, Consulting Editor, 1997-2002
Science Magazine, inScight, Editorial Board, 1998-2000
Learning & Behavior, Consulting Editor, 2003-2007
Current Nutrition Reviews, Editorial Board Member, 2004-2015
Consultations
Union Carbide Corp., Home Products Division, 1985-1987
CSIRO Pastoral Research Laboratory, Armidale, NSW, Australia, 1985
Department of Zoology, University of Tel Aviv, Israel, 1986
Monell Chemical Senses Center, 1991-1994
U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1993
Pegasus Computer Systems, Inc., 1994-1998
Serendipity Point Films, 2000
Publications
2019
2017
2014
2013
Galef, B. G. Animal communication: sniffing is about more than just smell. Current Biology, 2013, 23, R272.
2012
Galef, B. G. Social learning and traditions in animals: evidence, definitions and relationship to human culture. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Cognitive Science, 2. doi:1002/wcs.1196.
2010
2009
Galef, B. G. The Norway rat. Current Biology, 19, R884-R885, 2009.
Galef, B. G. Libertad y razon (entrevista a Bennett Galef). La Nueva Ilustracion Evolucionista http://ilevolucionista.blogspot.com/2009/06/aprendizaje-social-entrevista-bennett.html and Des de el Exilio http://www.desdeelexilio.com/2009/06/23/aprendizaje-social-entrevista-a-bennett-galef/
Galef, B. G. What can function tell us about mechanism? Invited review of Tinbergen’s Legacy: Function and Mechanism in Behavioral Biology, edited by J. Bolhuis and S. Verhulst. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 24, 357-358, 2009.
Galef, B. G. Maternal influences on offspring food preferences and feeding behaviors in mammals. In: Maternal Effects in Mammals, D. Maestripieri & J. Mateo (Eds.), pp. 159-181. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Galef, B. G. & Yarkovsky, N. Further studies of reliance on socially acquired information when foraging in potentially risky situations. Animal Behaviour, 77, 1329-1335, 2009.
Galef, B. G. Bennett G. Galef, Q & A, Current Biology, 19, R228-R229, 2009.
Laland, K. N. & Galef, B. G. The Question of Animal Culture, K. N. Laland & B. G. Galef (Eds.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Laland, K. N. & Galef, B. G. Introduction. In: The Question of Animal Culture, K. N. Laland & B. G. Galef (Eds.), pp. 1-18. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
2008
Galef, B. G., Jr. & Whiskin, E. E. Effectiveness of familiar kin and unfamiliar non-kin demonstrator rats in altering food choices of their observers. Animal Behaviour, 76, 1381-1388, 2008.
Galef, B. G., Jr. & Whiskin, E. E. ‘Conformity’in rats? Animal Behaviour, 2008, 75, 2035-2039.
2007
2006
Galef, B. G., Jr. Theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding when animals use socially acquired information and from whom they acquire it. Lucas, J.R. & Simmons, L. (Eds.) Essays in Animal Behaviour: Celebrating 50 years of Animal Behaviour (pp. 161-182). San Diego: Academic Press.
Clark, M. M., Stiver, K. A., Teall, T. & Galef, B. G., Jr. Nursing one litter of Mongolian gerbils while pregnant with another: effects on daughters mate attachment and fecundity. Animal Behaviour, 71, 235-241, 2006.
2005
Ophir, A. G., Persaud, K. N. & Galef, B. G., Jr. Avoidance of relatively aggressive male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) by sexually experienced conspecific males. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 119, 3-7, 2005.
2004
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social learning. In: Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, Vol. 2. (Ed. by M. Bekoff), Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing (pp. 711-715), 2004.
Honey, P.L., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Long-lasting effects of rearing by an ethanol-consuming dam on voluntary ethanol consumption by rats. Appetite, 43, 261-268, 2004.
Galef, B. G., Jr. & Whiskin, E. E. Effects of environmental stability and demonstrator age on social learning of food preferences by young Norway rats. Animal Behaviour, 2004, 68, 897- 902.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Heyes, C.M. (Eds.) Social learning and imitation. Special Issue of Learning & Behavior, 2004, 32(1), 1-140.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Heyes, C.M. Introduction. Learning & Behavior, 2004, 32, 1-3.
2003
2002
Galef, B.G., Jr. Where's the beef? Evidence of culture, imitation and teaching in cetaceans? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001, 24, 335.
2000
1999
1998
White, D.J. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influence on avoidance of dangerous stimuli by rats. Animal Learning & Behavior, 26, 433-438. Barnard, C. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Editorial: A new-look. Animal Behaviour, 1998, 55, 1085.
Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Where the males are. Natural History, 1998, 107, 22-24.
1997
Galef, B.G., Jr. Learning under the influence. Natural History, 1997, 106, 47-49.
1996
Heyes, C.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Social Learning and Imitation: the Roots of Culture. New York: Academic Press, 1996.
1995
1994
Galef, B.G., Jr., Mainardi, M. & Valsecchi, P. (Eds.) Behavioral Aspects of Feeding: Basic and Applied Research in Mammals. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic, 1994.
Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Sex-ratio and inheritance. Nature, 1994, 367, 327-328.
1993
1992
Galef, B.G., Jr. The question of animal culture. Human Nature, 1992, 3, 157-178.
1991
1990
1989
Mason, J.R., Bean, N.J. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Attractiveness of carbon disulfide to wild Norway rats. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference, A.C. Crabb & R.E. Marsh (Eds.), Davis, CA: University of California Press, 1989, 13, 95-97.
1988
Zentall, T.R. & Galef, B.G., Jr. (Eds.) Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum, 1988.
1987
1986
1985
Galef, B.G., Jr. Ontogeny of diet selection and the control of ingestion, Appetite, 1985, 6, 331.
1984
1983
1982
1981
Galef, B.G., Jr. Development of flavor preference in man and animals: The role of social and non-social factors. In R.N. Aslin, J.R. Alberts, and M.R. Peterson (Eds.), Sensory and Perceptual Development: Influences of Genetic and Experiential Factors. New York: Academic Press, 1981, pp. 411-431.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The ecology of weaning: Parasitism and the achievement of independence by altricial mammals. In D.J. Gubernick and P.H. Klopfer (Eds.), Parental Care. New York: Plenum Press, 1981, pp. 211-241.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The development of olfactory control of feeding site selection in rat pups. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1981, 95, 615-622.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Preference for natural odors in rat pups: Implications of a failure to replicate. Physiology & Behavior, 1981, 26, 783-786.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Dalrymple, A.J. Toxicosis based aversions to visual cues in rats: A test of the Testa & Ternes hypothesis. Animal Learning & Behavior, 1981, 9, 332-335.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Mothers and infants: A potpourri. Solicited review of Maternal influences and early behavior. R.W. Bell and W.P. Smotherman (Eds.), New York: SP Medical and Scientific Books, 1980. Contemporary Psychology, 1981, 26, 691-692.
Clark, M.M., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Environmental influence on development, behavior and endocrine morphology of gerbils. Physiology & Behavior, 1981, 27, 761-765.
Dalrymple, A.J. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Visual discrimination pretraining facilitates subsequent visual-cue toxicosis conditioning in rats. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1981, 18, 267- 270.
1980
Galef, B.G., Jr. Diving for food: Analysis of a possible case of social learning in rats (Rattus norvegicus). Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1980, 94, 416-425.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Kaner, H.C. The establishment and maintenance of preference for natural and artificial olfactory stimuli in juvenile rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1980, 94, 588-595.
Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Effects of rearing environment on adrenal weights, sexual development, and behavior in gerbils: An examination of Richter's domestication hypothesis. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1980, 94, 857-863.
1979
Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. A sensitive period for the maintenance of emotionality in Mongolian gerbils. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1979, 93, 200- 210.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social transmission of learned diet preferences in wild rats. In J.H.A. Kroeze (Ed.), Chemoreception and Preference Behavior. London: Information Retrieval Ltd., 1979, pp. 219-232.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Investigation of the functions of coprophagy in juvenile rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1979, 93, 295-305.
Galef, B.G., Jr., & Muskus, P.A. Olfactory mediation of mother-young contact in Long-Evans rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1979, 93, 708-716.
1978
Galef, B.G., Jr. Differences in the affiliative behavior of weanling rats selecting eating and drinking sites. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1978, 92, 431-438.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Dalrymple, A.J. Active transmission of poison avoidance among rats? Behavioral Biology, 1978, 24, 265-271.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Osborne, B. Novel taste facilitation of the association of visual cues with toxicosis in rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1978, 92, 907-916.
1977
Day, C.S.D., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Pup cannibalism: One aspect of maternal behavior in golden hamsters. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1977, 91, 1179-1189.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The social transmission of food preferences: An adaptation for weaning in rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1977, 91, 1136-1140.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Mechanisms for the transmission of acquired patterns of feeding from adult to weanling rats. In J.M. Weiffenbach (Ed.), Taste and development: The genesis of sweet preference. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977, pp. 217-234.
Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. The role of the physical rearing environment in the domestication of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). Animal Behaviour, 1977, 25, 298-316.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Mechanisms for the social transmission of food preferences from adult to weanling rats. In L.M. Barker, M. Best, and M. Domjan (Eds.) Learning mechanisms in food selection. Waco: Baylor University Press, 1977, pp. 123-148.
Leon, M., Galef, B.G., Jr. & Behse, J.H. Odor pre-exposure: Effects on ontogeny of pheromonal bonds and diet choice in rats. Physiology & Behavior, 1977, 18, 387-391.
Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Patterns of agonistic interaction and spatial utilization by agouti (Dasyprocta punctata). Behavioral Biology, 1977, 20, 135-140.
1976
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Heiber, L. The role of residual olfactory cues in the determination of feeding site selection and exploration patterns of domestic rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1976, 90, 727-739.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Clark, M.M. Non-nurturent functions of mother-young interaction in the agouti (Dasyprocta punctata). Behavioral Biology, 1976, 17, 255-262.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social transmission of acquired behavior: A discussion of tradition and social learning in vertebrates. In J.S. Rosenblatt, R.A. Hinde, E. Shaw and C. Beer (Eds.), Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 6., New York: Academic Press, 1976, pp. 77-100.
Galef, B.G., Jr., Mittermeier, R.H., & Bailey, R.S. Predation by the tayra (Eira barbara). Journal of Mammalogy, 1976, 57, 760-761.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Solicted review of Aggression, by J.P. Scott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd edn., 1975, pp. xiv + 233. Aggressive Behavior, 1976, 2, 237-240.
1975
Galef, B.G., Jr. The social transmission of acquired behavior. Biological Psychiatry, 1975, 10, 155-160.
1973
Alberts, J.R. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Olfactory cues and movement: Stimuli mediating intraspecific aggression in the wild Norway rat. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1973, 85, 233-242.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Sherry, D.F. Mother's milk: A medium for the transmission of cues reflecting the flavor of mother's diet. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1973, 83, 374-378.
1972
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Clark, M.M. Mother's milk and adult presence: Two factors determining initial dietary selection by weaning rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1972, 78, 220-25.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Henderson, P.W. Mother's milk: A determinant of the feeding preferences of weaning rat pups. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1972, 78, 213-219.
Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. The effects of forced nest-site feeding on the food preferences of wild rat pups at weaning. Psychonomic Science, 1972, 28, 173-175.
1971
Galef, B.G., Jr., & Clark, M.M. Social factors in the poison avoidance and feeding behavior of wild and domesticated rat pups. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1971, 75, 341-357.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social effects in the weaning of domestic rat pups. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1971, 75, 358-362.
Alberts, J.R. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Acute anosmia in the rat: A behavioral test of a peripherally- induced olfactory deficit. Physiology & Behavior, 1971, 6, 619-621.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Clark, M.M. Parent-offspring interactions determine time and place of first ingestion of solid food by wild rat pups. Psychonomic Science, 1971, 25, 15-16.
1970
Galef, B.G., Jr. Aggression and timidity: Responses to novelty in feral Norway rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1970, 70, 370-381.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Target novelty elicits and directs shock-associated aggression in wild rats. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1970, 71, 87-91.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Stimulus novelty as a factor in the intra-specific pain-associated aggression of domesticated rats. Psychonomic Science, 1970, 18, 21-22.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Familiarity of target location as a factor in the shock-associated aggression of wild rats. Psychonomic Science, 1970, 19, 299-300.
Papers Abstracted in Conference Proceedings
Galef, B.G, Jr. The effects of amygdalectomy on timidity and aggression in the wild rat. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention, Philadelphia, 1969.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Wild rat pups avoid an unpoisoned base diet on which their parents have been poisoned. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention, Atlantic City, 1970.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Henderson, P.W. Weaning rat pups prefer the diet their mother eats during lactation. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention, Atlantic City, 1971.
Sherry, D.F. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Mother's milk and learned aversions in weanling rats. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention, Boston, 1972.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The social transmission of acquired behavior. Invited paper, Developmental Psychobiology meetings, Boston, 1974.
Nord, S. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Discriminated flight response of the domestic rat to auditory stimuli may be socially transmitted. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society convention, Denver, 1974.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Mechanisms for the social transmission of acquired patterns of feeding from adult to weanling rats. Paper presented at the meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Wilmington, N.C., 1975.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social transmission of an acquired discriminated avoidance. Paper presented at the XIVth International Ethology Congress, Parma, Italy, 1975.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Contradictions in experimental investigations of the domestication process. Invited paper. Northeast Regional Animal Behavior Society meetings, Halifax, 1975.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The social transmission of behavior. Invited paper, Winter Conference on Brain Research, Keystone, Colorado, 1976. Reported in Brain Information Service Conference Report, 1976, 44, 33-36.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Non-nurturent functions of mother-young interaction. Invited paper, Canadian Psychological Association convention, Toronto, 1976.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social transmission of food preferences in adult and juvenile rats. Paper presented at the Northeast Regional Animal Behavior Society meetings, New York, 1976.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Experimental approaches to the study of animal development. Invited symposium organizer and discussant, Canadian Psychological Association convention, Vancouver, 1977.
Galef, B.G., Jr. A laboratory course in Animal Behavior. Invited paper. Animal Behavior Society Meetings. State College, Pennsylvania, 1977.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Novel taste facilitation of the association of visual cues with toxicosis in rats. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 1979.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social transmission of learned diet preferences in wild rats. Invited paper, European Chemoreception Organization minisymposium: Chemoreception and Preference Behavior. Amerika, Holland, 1979.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social effects on diet selection in animals and man. Invited paper, Benjamin Franklin Seminar. La Napoule, France, 1979.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Experimental approaches to the study of social behavior. Invited symposium discussant. Eastern Psychological Association Convention, Philadelphia, 1979.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The development of preference. Invited symposium discussant, Genetic and experiential determinants of sensory development. Bloomington, Indiana, 1979.
Dalrymple, A.J., Galef, B.G., Jr., & Osborne, B. Poison avoidance learning to exteroceptive cues in rats: The role of attention. Paper presented at the Canadian Psychological Association meetings. Quebec City, 1979.
Galef, B.G., Jr., Dalrymple, A.J., & Osborne, B. Can mammals learn to avoid ingesting toxic prey on the basis of their appearance? Paper presented at the XVIth International Ethology Congress, Vancouver, B.C., 1979.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social transmission of diet preference in rats. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, 1980.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Diving for food: Analysis of a possible case of social learning in wild rats (Rattus norvegicus). Paper presented at the Animal Behavior Society meetings, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1980.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The young mammal: Immature adult or adapted juvenile? Invited symposium discussant, American Psychological Association convention, Montreal, 1980.
Dalrymple, A.J., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Conditioning of toxicosis to visually distinctive food objects and containers. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Montreal, 1980.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Diving for food: Resource exploitation and social learning in rats. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, Jan. 1981.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social learning in rats: The illusion and the reality. Invited address. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Convention, Denver, Colorado, June, 1981.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Costs and Benefits of mammalian reproduction. Invited paper presented at a symposium on Symbiosis in Parent-Young Interaction, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1981.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social transmission of diet preference. Invited address. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Meetings, New Orleans, Nov. 1981.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Ontogeny of olfactory control of feeding behavior in rat pups. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, Jan. 1982.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social learning in rats. Invited Fellow's address. Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., Aug., 1982.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Wigmore, S.W. Adult rats can communicate information concerning distant diets. Paper presented to the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, April, 1983.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Tradition and social learning in animals. Invited symposium participant, Symposium on Animal Intelligence, National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C., April 1983. Reported in Bio Science, 1983, 33, 362-364.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Wigmore, S.W. A laboratory investigation of the information center hypothesis in Norway rats (R. norvegicus). Paper presented at the meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Lewisburg, Pa., June, 1983.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Parental Behavior. Workshop organizer. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, Jan., 1984.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social transmission of food preferences in rats. Invited symposium participant. New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Experimental Assessments and Clinical Applications of Conditioned Food Aversions. New York City, April, 1984.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The role of observational learning in the development of adaptive patterns of behavior in animals. Invited Symposium Participant, Animal Behavior Society, Cheyney, Washington, August, 1984.
Galef, B.G., Jr., & Stein, M. Demonstrator influence on observer diet preference: Analysis of critical social interactions and olfactory signals. Paper presented to the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Baltimore, October, 1984.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Constraints on learning. Invited workshop participant. Winter Conference on Animal Learning, Winter Park, Colorado, January, 1985.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Knowledge from laboratory and field. Invited workshop organizer. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, January, 1985.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Transmission of information concerning distant foods. Invited colloquium. Rocky Mountain Region Neurosciences Group. Denver, Colorado, April, 1985.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Wigmore, S.W. Social learning in rats. Invited symposium participant. Midwestern Psychological Association Convention. Chicago, May, 1985.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Olfactory communication among rats: Information concerning distant diets. Invited paper. Fourth International Conference on Chemical Signals in Vertebrates. Laramie, Wyoming, July, 1985.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Something you all should know about social learning in rats. Invited paper Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, January, 1986.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Importance of social learning in determining diet selection by Norway rats. Paper contributed to the meetings of the Animal Behavior Society. Tucson, Arizona, June, 1986.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Are animals expert in selecting adequate diets? Invited paper. McArthur Conference on Ingestive Behavior, Lake Waramang, Connecticut. October, 1986.
Galef, B.G., Jr. No rat is an island. Invited paper, Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, Jan. 1987.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Behavior and Biopsychology: Building bridges. Invited workshop participant. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, Jan. 1987.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social learning and diet selection. Invited plenary speaker. British Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, July, 1987. Summarized in New Scientist, 30 July, 1987, 31.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Tradition and social learning: Description of subpopulation-typical patterns of behavior and analyses of their development. Invited plenary speaker, International Ethology Conference, Madison, WI, August, 1987.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The role of social interaction in production of adaptive end-points of behavioral development. Invited participant, presidential symposium, Annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, Nov., 1987.
Galef, B.G., Jr. "Feliciter is sapit qui periculo alieno sapit." Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, Jan. 1988.
Beck, M., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Social control of diet selection: How do animals find nutritious food? Paper contributed to the Eastern Psychological Association Convention. Buffalo, N.Y., April, 1988.
Galef, B.G., Jr. No rat is an island. Invited paper. Spring (Canadian) Conference on Behaviour and Brain, Whistler Village, B.C., April, 1988.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Black, R.M. A signal that elicits feeding on a specific food by sated rats. Poster presented at the meetings of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, June, 1988.
Galef, B.G., Jr. No rat is an island. Principal Lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute. Ethoexperimental analysis of behavior. Il Ciocco, Italy, July, 1988.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Invited Symposium Participant. Can ethoexperimental techniques be applied to the study of human behavior? NATO-ASI, Il Ciocco, Italy, July 1988.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Invited Symposium Participant. Ethoexperimental approaches to animal learning. NATO-ASI, Il Ciocco, Italy, July, 1988.
Clark, M.M. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Correlates of differences in amount of maternal, anogenital licking received by same-sex gerbil pups. Paper presented to the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Toronto, November, 1988.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social factors in diet selection and poison avoidance by Norway rats: A brief review. Invited participant. International Conference on Appetite, Philadelphia, Dec. 1988. Abstract published in Appetite, 1989, 12, 73.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The return of the revenge of the son of social learning, Part XI: The Ultimate Challenge. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, Jan. 1989.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The social bases of food selection. Invited address. Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, April, 1989.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Invited discussant. Symposium on Anthropomorphism and Anecdotalism. Meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Highland Heights, KY, June, 1989.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Nelson Distinguished Biologist Lecture. Invited address. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, April, 1989.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Responses of observer rats to complex, food related signals emitted by demonstrator rats. Paper contributed to the Meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Highland Heights, KY, June, 1989.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Further evidence that Norway rats do not socially transmit learned aversions to toxic baits. Contributed paper. Spring Canadian Conference on Behavior and Brain. Banff, Alberta, April, 1989.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Origins of perverse flavor preferences. Contributed paper. Winter Conference on Animal Learning. Winter Park, CO, January, 1989.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The masked contrarian rides again. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Park City, Utah, Jan., 1990.
Galef, B.G., Jr. My cleverest experiment. Contributed short presentation. Spring Canadian Conference on Behaviour and Brain, Banff, Alberta, April, 1990.
Clark, M.M., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Mongolian gerbil dams invest more in their sons than in their daughters. Paper contributed to the convention of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology. Cambridge, England, July, 1990.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on fluid intake: Laboratory experiments with rats, field observations of primates. Invited paper. International Life Sciences Institute Symposium on Thirst, Washington, D.C., May, 1990.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The masked contrarian vs. the creatures from Koshima. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Jackson, WY, Jan. 1991.
Galef, B.G., Jr. On the role of tradition and imitation in the behavioral development of animals: The ontogeny of locale-specific behaviors in natural circumstances. Invited Address, EPA Outreach Program in Developmental Psychobiology, Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY, April, 1991.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Olfactory communication among rats of complex diet-identifying information. Contributed paper. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates IV. Philadelphia, PA. June, 1991.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Exchange of diet-identifying information at aggregation sites. Paper contributed to the meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Wilmington, N.C., June, 1991.
Galef, B.G., Jr. No ratte is an islande. Invited plenary speaker. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Hamilton, Ontario, August, 1991.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on dietary self-selection by Norway rats at weaning. Paper contributed to the meetings of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, Nov., 1991.
Clark, M.M., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Unconfounded evidence of sex-biased, postnatal maternal effort by Mongolian gerbil dams. Paper contributed to the meetings of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, Nov. 1991.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Foraging by young rats: How do they compose a nutritionally adequate diet? Damned if I know! Invited paper Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Jackson, WY, January, 1992.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on the foraging success of weanling rats. Paper contributed to the meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association. Boston, April 1992.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on the development of food preferences in rats: A quarter century of research. Invited paper presented to the workshop on the ontogeny and social transmission of food preferences. International School of Ethology, Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, June 1992.
Clark, M.M., Crews, D., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Effects of male fetuses on the behaviour of Mongolian gerbil dams late in pregnancy: Evidence of androgen mediation. Poster contributed to the 24th Conference on Reproductive Behaviour, Halifax, June, 1992.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on the foraging success of weanling rats. Poster presented at the meetings of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Princeton, NJ, August, 1992.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social effects on diet selection by Norway rats. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Jackson, WY, January 1993.
Galef, B.G., Jr. In the beginning. Invited after dinner address. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Jackson, WY, January, 1993.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on the foraging success of weanling Norway rats. Invited Paper. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, April, 1993.
Clark, M.M., Karpiuk, P., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Hormonally mediated inheritance of acquired characteristics in Mongolian gerbils. Contributed paper. Animal Behavior Society meetings. Davis, CA, July, 1993.
Galef, B.G., Jr., & Smith, M.A. Susceptibility of aritifically-reared rat pups to social influences on food choice. Paper contributed to the meetings of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Alexandria, VA, November, 1993.
Clark, M.M., Karpiuk, P. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Hormonally mediated transmission of acquired characteristics in Mongolian gerbils. Paper contributed to the meetings of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Alexandria, VA, November, 1993.
Galef, B.G. Jr. More about social learning: What structure can tell us about function. Winter Animal Behavior Conference. Jackson, WY, January, 1994.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & Durlach, P. How tall should a rat cage be? Invited symposium participant. Convention of the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science. Hamilton, Ontario, June, 1994.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Charles Darwin, Niko Tinbergen and the past, present and future of studies of social learning. Invited symposium participant, Meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Seattle, WA, July, 1994.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Contributions of psychology to the study of social learning and tradition in animals: An historical perspective and a new experimental paradigm. Invited paper. Human Frontier Science Program Workshop: Social Learning and Tradition in Animals. Cambridge, UK, August 1994.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Food selection: Problems in understanding how we choose foods to eat. Invited plenary paper. Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Hamilton, August, 1994.
Jones, D., Gonzalez-Lima, F., Crews, D. Galef, B.G., Jr. & Clark, M.M. Effects of intrauterine position on metabolic inequalities in the hypothalmus of the Mongolian gerbil: A cytochrome oxidase. Poster contributed to the meetings of the Society for Neuroscience, October, 1994.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael: Culture in Norway rats. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference XVII, Jackson, WY, Jan. 1995.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Effects on vertebrate development of unintentional signals. Invited conference participant. Institute for Human Communication Research Spring 1995 Conference: The role communication plays in human development, Durham, NC, April, 1995.
Galef, B. G., Jr. A new model system for studying behavioral traditions in animals. Invited symposium participant. Social learning and imitation. Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL, May, 1995.
Galef, B.G., Jr. The other side of the coin: Using analyses of intraspecific communciations to find substances attractive to rodents. Invited symposium participant. Denver Wildlife Research Center Symposium on Repellents in Wildlife Management. Denver, CO, August, 1995.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Copying diet choice. Invited plenary symposium participant. Societe Quebecoise pour l'etude biologique de comportement. Montreal, November, 1995.
Galef, B.G., Jr. "Try it, you'll like it." Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference. Jackson, WY, January 1996.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social effects on affective responses to foods. Contributed paper. Canadian Spring Conference on Behaviour and Brain. Fernie, B.C., March 1996.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social learning and imitation. Invited participant. Symposium on animal awareness. University of Buffalo, April, 1996.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Does social learning induce changes in rats' affective responses to flavors? Paper contributed to the meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Flagstaff, AZ, 1996.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Animal social learning: A decade of progress in interdisciplinary behavioural research. Invited State-of-the-Art Address. XXVIth International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, August, 1996.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & White, D.J. Learning socially when food has become available. Contributed paper. Meetings of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, DC, November, 1996.
Galef, B.G., Jr. When do we eat? Social foraging for ephemeral foods. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference XIX, Jackson, WY, January, 1997.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Biology, psychology, who cares? It's all animal behaviour. Invited participant, Workshop on the evolution of learning. Lexington, KY, February, 1997.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on where, when and what Norway rats eat. Invited participant, Workshop on the evolution of learning. Lexington, KY, February, 1997.
Galef, B.G., Jr. When do we eat? Social foraging by Norway rats. Invited paper, Langfeld Conference on Current Issues in Comparative and Developmental Psychobiology. Princeton, NJ, April, 1997.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Recent progress in studies of social learning in animals. Invited paper. Meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., April, 1997.
White, D.J., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Mate-copying in Japanese quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica. Poster presented at the meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, College, Park, MD, June 1997.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on mate choice in Japanese quail. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, XX. Jackson Hole, WY, February, 1998.
Galef, B.G., Jr. No ratte is an islande: Explorations in social foraging and social learning. Invited address, Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior XV. Winter Park, CO. February, 1998.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & White, D.J. Social effects on mate choices of male and female Japanese quail. Invited plenary paper, Napoli Social Learning Conference. Naples, Italy. July, 1998.
White, D.J. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Mate copying and conspecific cueing in Japanese quail. Poster presented at the meetings of the Animal Behavior Society. Carbondale, IL. July, 1998.
Galef, B.G., Jr. No ratte is an islande: Explorations in social foraging by Norway rats. Invited fellow's lecture, Meetings of the Animal Behavior Society. Carbondale, IL. July, 1998.
Galef, B.G., Jr. & White, D.J. Social influences on mate choice by quail of both sexes. Poster presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, August, 1998.
Clark, M.M., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Testosterone mediated trade-off between gerbils' sexual and parental behaviors. Poster presented at the meetings of the American Psychological Association. August, 1998.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Environmental enrichment for laboratory rodents. Invited symposium participant. Scientists Center for Animal Welfare, San Antonio, TX., Dec. 1998
Galef, B.G., Jr. To copy or not to copy. That is the question. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference XXI, Jackson Hole, WY. January 1999.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social foraging by Norway rats: Effects of public information on food preferences of individuals. Invited plenary address: IV Curso international "Bases neurobiologicas y ecologicas de la conducta como y para que. Tlaxcala, Mexico, March, 1999.
Honey, L.P. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Exposure to ethanol before weaning affects alcohol intake by juvenile rats. Poster presented at the meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, April 1999.
Galef, B.G., Jr., ‘Culture’ in quail: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference XXII, Jackson Hole, WY. January 2000.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Behavioural analyses of social impacts on learned feeding and sexual beahviours. Invited lecture. VIth Biannual Symposium on the Science of Behavior. February 2000. Guadalajara, MX.
Honey, P.L., & Galef, B.G., Jr. Social induction of ethanol preference in juvenile rats. Contributed paper. Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, March 2000.
Honey, P.C. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Social learning of ethanol consumption does not depend on lactation. Contributed paper. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, November, 2000.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Dietary deficiencies and sociality in Norway rats. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Jackson, WY, January 2001.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social learning: Promotor or inhibitor of innovation? Invited symposium participant. XXVI International Ethology Congress. Tubingen, Germany. August, 2001.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on the food choices of Norway rats and mate choices of Japanese quail. Invited Keynote Speaker. XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Espanola de Psicologia Comparada . Reunion Internacional. San Sebastian, Spain. September 2001.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on the food preferences of Norway rats and the male preferences of Japanese quail. Invited keynote speaker. Nebraska Behavioral Biology Group, Lincoln, NE. November 2001.
Honey, P.L., Varley, K.R. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Relative influence of dams and unrelated adult females on pups’ ethanol consumption. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA, November 2001.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Do you love the one you love? Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, January, 2002, Jackson Hole, WY.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social influences on the food choices of Norway rats and mate choices of Japanese quail. Invited paper. Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior, New York, March 2002.
Persaud, K.N. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Female Japanese quail aggregate to avoid sexual harassment by males. Poster contributed to the meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Bloomington, IN, July, 2002.
Ophir, A.G. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Female Japanese quail modify their mate choices using information acquired from moving video images. Paper presented at the meetings of the Animal Behavior Society, Bloomington, IN, July, 2002.
Galef, B.G., Jr. On the culture of chimpanzees and rats. Invited address. Bert Miller Fort Erie Nature Club. Fort Erie, Ontario, November, 2002.
Galef, B.G., Jr. How a cognitive psychologist became an animal behaviorist. Invited Speaker Psychological Sciences Workshop Series. Binghamton University. Binghamton, NY, December, 2002.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Hey Buffy, why not just poison the suckers? Invited paper, Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Jackson Hole, WY, January, 2003.
Ophir, A.G. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Losers win in the end: Female Japanese quail that eavesdrop on fighting males prefer the losers. Contributed paper. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Toronto, ON, January, 2003.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Food stealing by young Norway rats. Invited paper. Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, May, 2003.
Persaud, K.N. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Fertilized female quail weigh the costs of sexual harassment differently than unfertilized quail. Ontario Ecology & Ethology Colloquium, Hamilton, ON, May, 2003
Persaud, K.N. & Galef, B.G., Jr. When is it worth it? Fertilized and unfertilized female quail weigh the costs and benefits of sex differently. Paper contributed to the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Boise, ID, July, 2003.
Ophir, A.G. & Galef, B.G., Jr. Once bitten, twice shy: female Japanese quail learn to avoid more dominant males. Paper contributed to the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Boise, ID, July, 2003.
Galef, B.G., Jr., Ratcliffe, J.M., & Fenton, M.B. Vampire bats do not learn flavor aversions: A comparative study. Paper contributed to the International Ethology Congress. Florianopolis, Brazil, August, 2003.
Galef, B.G., Jr. Social learning about foods by Norway rats. Invited paper. International Ethology Congress, Florianopolis, Brazil, August, 2003.
Galef, B. G., Jr. What you Sih is what you get. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado. January, 2004.
Griffin, A. S. & Galef, B. G. Jr. Backward conditioning in socially acquired predator recognition. Paper contributed to the annual meeting of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Adelaide, South Australia, April, 2004.
Persaud, K. N.& Galef, B. G., Jr. Sexually coercive males are less preferred by females and less likely to inseminate them. Paper contributed to the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Oaxaca, Mexico, June, 2004.
Clark, M. M. & Galef, B. G., Jr. The inter-litter effect: maternally mediated interactions of siblings in successive litters. Paper contributed to the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology. Aix-en-Province, France, June, 2004.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Social learning about foods by animals. Invited paper. Nestle Purina Nutrition Forum. St. Louis, Missouri, October, 2004.
Galef, B. G., Jr. A new model system for studying social learning in animals. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2005.
Galef, B. G., Jr. A new model system for studying social learning in animals. Paper contributed to the annual meeting of the Australasian Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Palmerston North, New Zealand, April, 2005.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Social influences on the reproductive behavior of Japanese quail. Invited plenary address. St. Andrews International Conference on Animal Social Learning. St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. June, 2005.
Galef, B. G., Jr. When theory fails do you publish? Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2006.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Behavioral aspects of preference. Invited paper. Focus on Palatability. Chicago, IL, April 2006.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Nothing succeeds like success: mate choice copying in Norway rats. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2007.
Clark, M. M., Abadilla, R. & Galef, B. G., Jr. Why do fathers like daughters and mothers like sons? Contributed Poster, Parental Brain Conference: Parenting and the Brain. Boston, Massachusetts, June, 2007.
Galef, B. G., Jr., Dudley, K. & Whiskin, E. E. Social Influences on the food choices of Norway rats: testing formal models of social learning. Contributed paper. Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society. Burlington, Vermont, July, 2007.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Testing predictions from formal models of social learning: when should animals increase their reliance on socially acquired information. Invited paper. European Conference on Artificial Life: Workshop on Social Learning in Embodied Agents. Lisbon Portugal, September, 2007.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Social influences on mate selection in Japanese quail. Invited Symposium participant. Annual meeting of the Pavlovian Society. Austin, Texas, October, 2007.
Galef, B. G., Jr. Success at last: support for some predictions from formal models of social learning. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2008.
Galef, B. G. What it means to be not human: social learning without imitation. Invited paper. EDICI Workshop “The evolution, development and intentional control of imitation.” Vienna, Austria, March, 2008.
Galef, B. G. Familiarity breeds contempt: Why some formal models of social learning sometimes get it wrong. Invited paper. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2009.
Galef, B. G. Tests of two predictions from formal Darwinian models: social learning in unproductive and dissatisfied Norway rats. Invited paper. Origins Institute: Darwin’s Legacy. Hamilton, Ontario, May, 2009.
Galef, B. G. Familiarity breeds contempt: Why some formal models of social learning sometimes get it wrong. Contributed paper. XXXI International Ethology Congress, Rennes, France, August, 2009.
Galef, B. G. My life in science. Invited paper. Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, November, 2009.
Galef, B. G., Jr. An unofficial history of the Winter Animal Behavior Conferences. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2010.
Galef, B. G. The relationship between terminology and experiment in studies of social learning. Invited paper. Satellite meeting on social learning in humans and non-human animals: theoretical and empirical dissections. Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Chicheley Hall, UK, July 2010.
Carter, G. G., Ratcliffe, J. M. & Galef, B. G. Spatial cues overshadow shape and scent cues in a flower bat and a fruit bat. Contributed paper, Annual meeting of the Animal behavior Society, Williamsburg, VA, July, 2010.
Galef, B. G. Social learning of food preference in Norway rats goes molecular. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2011.
Galef, B. G. Social influences on the food choices of Norway rats: molecular biology and formal models. Invited lecture. The Emerging Science of Culture Series. Green College, University of British Columbia, April 2011.
Galef B. The question of animal culture. Invited lecture. Colloquia on Fundemental Issues in Biology. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, April 2011.
Galef, B. G. Invited lecture. Social learning of food preference in Norway rats goes molecular. Winter Animal Behaviour Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January 2011.
Galef, B. G. Invited lecture. Social learning and the study of the physical basis of memory. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2012.
Galef, B. G. Invited lecture. Social learning in humans, rats, mice and fruitflies. Winter Animal Behavior Conference. Styeamboat Springs, Colorado, January 2013.
Galef, B. G. Invited lecture. Social learning in humans, rats, mice and fruitflies. Winter Animal Behavior Conference. Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January 2013.
Galef, B. G. Invited lecture. Network Diffusuion Analysis and Akaike's Information Criterion: two good reasons to be happy to have retired. Winter Animal Behavior Conference, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2014.
Galef, B. G. Invited lecture. The nature of the beast. Winter Animal Behavior Conference. Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January, 2015.
Invited Departmental Colloquia (1968-2009)
Trent University (2) Princeton University (2)
University of Pennsylvania Swarthmore College
Institute for Animal Behavior (2) National Institutes of Health (2)
American Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution (3)
Waterloo University (2) University of Western Ontario (3)
University of Toronto (6) Florida State University
SUNY Stony Brook Purdue University
University of British Columbia University of Massachusetts
Cornell University (2) Indiana University (4)
University of Colorado (3) McGill University
SUNY Buffalo (2) SUNY Binghamton (2)
Brock University (2) McMaster University (9)
University of Manitoba University of New England (3)
Monell Chemical Senses Center University of Tel Aviv (2)
Queens University University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Rockefeller University U.S.D.A., Denver Wildlife Research Center
University of Missouri (2) University of California at Davis (2)
University of Michigan Duke University
Guelph University University of Washington
University of Georgia University College London (2)
Cambridge University Concordia University
University of Tokyo Kyoto University, Primate Research Institute
Instuto Superior de Psicologia (Lisbon)