Jennifer Vonk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology

TEL: 228.497.0563
FAX: 228.497.2193
E-mail: jennifer.vonk@usm.edu

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Ph.D., York University, 2002
M.A., Wilfrid Laurier University, 1998
B.A., McMaster University, 1994

Vonk, J. & Subiaul, F. (2009). Do chimpanzees know what others can and cannot do? Reasoning about ‘capability’. Animal Cognition, 12, 267-286.

Subiaul, F., Vonk, J., Barth, J., &. Okamoto-Barth, S. (2008).  Do Chimpanzees Learn Reputation by Observation? Evidence from Direct and Indirect Experience with Generous and Selfish Strangers. Animal Cognition, 11, 611-623.

Vonk, J., Brosnan, S.F., Povinelli, D.J., Henrich, J. Shapiro. S., Richardson, A, Lambeth, S.P. & Silk, J.B. (2008). Chimpanzees do not take advantage of low-cost opportunities to deliver food to group-mates. Animal Behaviour, 75, 1757 - 1770.

Vonk, J. & Horton, K.D. (2006). The role of automatic and conscious retrieval processes in directed forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 34, 505-517.

Silk, J., Brosnan, S.F., Vonk, J., Henrich, J., Povinelli, D.J., Shapiro, S., Richardson, A, Lambeth, S.P., & Mascaro, J. (2006). Animal Behaviour: Chimpanzee choice and prosociality (reply). Nature, 440, E6.

Silk, J., Brosnan, S.F., Vonk, J., Henrich, J., Povinelli, D.J., Shapiro, S., Richardson, A,
 Lambeth, S.P., & Mascaro, J. (2005). Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members. Nature, 437, 1357-1359.

Horton, K.D., Wilson, D.E., Vonk, J., Kirby, S.L., & Nielsen, T. (2005). A comparison of implicit memory and process dissociation with the speeded response procedure: Depth of processing and attentional effects on automatic retrieval. Acta Psychologica, 119, 235-
263.

Vonk, J., & MacDonald, S.E. (2004). Levels of abstraction in orangutan (Pongo abelii) categorization. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 118, 3-13.

Povinelli, D.J. & Vonk, J. (2004). We don’t need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee’s mind. Jointly published in Mind and Language, 19, 1-28,and S. Hurley & M. Nudds (Eds.) Rational Animals (2006) Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Povinelli, D.J. & Vonk, J. (2003). Chimpanzee Minds: Suspiciously Human. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 157-160.

Vonk, J. (2003). Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Orangutan (Pongo abelii) understanding of first and second order relations. Animal Cognition, 6, 77-86.

Vonk, J. (2002). Can Orangutans (Pongo abelii) and Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) acquire concepts for social relationships? International Journal of Comparative Cognition, 15, 257-277.

Vonk, J., & MacDonald, S.E. (2002). Natural concept formation in a juvenile gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) at 3 levels of abstraction. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour, 78, 315-332.

Clark, M.M., Vonk, J.M., & Galef, B.G. Jr. (1998). Intrauterine position, parenting and nest-site
attachment in male Mongolian Gerbils. Developmental Psychobiology, 32, 177-181.

Clark, M.M., DeSousa, D., Vonk, J., & Galef, B.G. Jr. (1997). Parenting and potency: routes to reproductive success in male Mongolian gerbils. Animal Behaviour, 54, 635-642.

Clark, M.M., Vonk, J.M., & Galef, B.G. Jr. (1997). Reproductive profiles of adult Mongolian Gerbils gestated as the sole fetus in a uterine horn. Physiology and Behaviour, 61, 77-81.