Dr Keith Jensen

Photograph of Keith Jensen

School of Psychological Sciences
Coupland 1 Building
Coupland Street, Oxford Road
Manchester, UK M13 9PL

Research

I am interested in the evolution and psychological underpinnings of sociality. More specifically, I am investigating the nature of other-regarding concerns in governing our social behaviour. To investigate how people come to know and care about the welfare of others, I use ideas from game theory and methods from experimental economics, as well as standard psychological approaches, to study nonhuman primates and children. 

Teaching

  • Evolution of Behaviour and Cognition (year 2)
  • Sociality and Communication: Evolutionary Perspectives – with Elena Lieven (year 3)

Publications

2012

  • Jensen, K (2012). Social regard: Evolving a psychology of cooperation. In Mitani, J., Call, J., Kappeler, P., Palombit, R. & Silk, J. (Ed.), The Evolution of Primate Societies. Chicago, USA: Chicago University Press.. eScholarID:194021
  • Mesoudi, A. & Jensen, K (2012). Culture and the evolution of human sociality. In Vonk, J. & Shackelford, T. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. (pp. 419-433). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. eScholarID:194012
  • Jensen, K (2012). Social preference experiments on animals: Strengthening the case for human preferences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35, 31-32. eScholarID:194020
  • Kaiser, Ingrid, Jensen, Keith, Call, Josep, & Tomasello, Michael. (2012). Theft in an ultimatum game: Chimpanzees and bonobos are insensitive to unfairness. Biology Letters, 8, 942-945. eScholarID:194688
  • Riedl, Katrin, Jensen, Keith, Call, Josep, & Tomasello, Michael. (2012). No third-party punishment in chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 14824-14829. eScholarID:194689

2011

  • Jensen, K., Silk, J., Andrews, K., Bshary, R., Cheney, D., Emery, N., Hemelrijk, C., Holekamp, K., Penn, D., Perner, J. & Teufel, C (2011). Social knowledge. In Fischer, J. & Menzel, R. (Ed.), Animal Thinking. (pp. 267-291). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. eScholarID:194019
  • Chittka, L. & Jensen, K (2011). Animal cognition: Concepts from apes to bees. Current Biology, 21(3), R116-R119. eScholarID:194011
  • Seed, A. & Jensen, K (2011). Large-scale cooperation. Nature, 472, 424-425. eScholarID:194014

2010

  • Jensen, K. & Tomasello, M (2010). Punishment. In Breed, M. & Moore, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. (pp. 800-805). Oxford: Academic Press. eScholarID:194016
  • Jensen, K (2010). Punishment and spite, the dark side of cooperation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365, 2635-2650. eScholarID:194017 | DOI:10.1098/rstb.2010.0146
  • Melis, A., Warneken, F., Jensen, K., Schneider, A., Call, J. & Tomasello, M (2010). Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278, 1405-1413. eScholarID:194010 | DOI:10.1098/rspb.2010.1735

2008

  • Jensen, K., Call, J. & Tomasello, M (2008). Response to "fair game for chimpanzees". Science, 319, 284. eScholarID:194018

2007

  • Call, J. & Jensen, K (2007). Chimpanzees may recognize motives and goals, but may not reckon on them. In Bock, G. & Goode, J. (Ed.), Empathy and Fairness. (pp. 56-65). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. eScholarID:194013 | DOI:10.1002/9780470030585