Papers

Wilson, V., & Masilkova, M. (2023). Does the primate face cue personality? Personality Neuroscience, 6(e7), 1-10.

Wilson, V., Bethell, E. & Nawroth, C. (2023). Editorial: Using gaze to study social knowledge: current challenges and future directions. Frontiers in Psychology, 14: 1225626.

Wilson, V., Bethell, E. & Nawroth, C. (2023). The use of gaze to study cognition: limitations, solutions, and applications to animal welfare. Frontiers in Psychology, 14: 1147278.

Wilson, V., Zuberbühler, K. & Bickel, B. (2022). The evolutionary origins of syntax: Event cognition in nonhuman primates. Science Advances, 8(25), eabn846.

Wilson, V., Kade, C. & Fischer, J. (2021). Testing the relationship between looking time and choice preferences in long-tailed macaques. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 8(3), 351-375.

Weiss, A., Wilson, V., Hopkins, W. (2021). Early social rearing, the V1A arginine vasopressin receptor genotype, and autistic traits in chimpanzees. Autism Research.

Wilson, V., Kade, C., Moeller, S., Treue, S., Kagan, I., & Fischer, J. (2020). Macaque gaze responses to the Primatar: a virtual macaque head for social cognition research. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1645.

Wilson, V., Weiss, A., Lefevre, C., Ochiai, T., Matsuzwa, T. ... Altschul, D. (2020). Assessment of fWHR in chimpanzees: links to age, sex and personality. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(3), 226-234.

Altschul, D., Robinson, L., Coleman, K., Capitanio, J. & Wilson, V. (2019). Exploration of the relationships among facial dimensions, age, sex, dominance status and personality in rhesus macaques. International Journal of Primatology.

Wilson, V., Guenther, A., Øverli, Ø., Seltmann, M., & Altschul, D. (2019). Future directions for personality research: contributing new insights to the understanding of animal behaviour. Animals, 9, 240.

Wilson, V. (2018). Using anthropocentrism to the benefit of other species. Commentary on Chapman & Huffman: Why do we think humans are different? Animal Sentience, 23(6).

Wilson, V. (2018). Costs, benefits and mechanisms of animal-assisted therapy: adopting a change in perspective. Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 17(4).

Wilson, V., Inoue-Murayama, M.& Weiss, A. (2018). A comparison of personality in the common and Bolivian squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus and Saimiri boliviensis). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 132(1), 24-39.

Wilson, V., Weiss, A., Humle, T., Morimura, N., Udono, T., ... Inoue-Murayama, M. (2017). Chimpanzee personality and the arginine vasopressin receptor 1A genotype. Behavior Genetics, 1-12.

Robinson, L., Waran, N., Leach, M., ... Wilson, V., Brosnan, S. & Weiss, A. (2016). Happiness is positive welfare in brown capuchins (Sapajus apella). Applied Animal Behaviour Science 181, 145-151.

Morton, F., Brosnan, S., Prétôt, L., Buchanan-Smith, H., O'Sullivan, E., Stocker, M., D'Mello, D. & Wilson, V. (2016). Using photographs to study animal social cognition and behaviour: Do capuchins' responses to photos reflect reality? Behavioural Processes, 124, 38-46.

Wilson, V., Lefevre, C., Morton, F., Brosnan, S., Paukner, A., & Bates, T. (2014). Personality and facial morphology: Links to assertiveness and neuroticism in capuchins (Sapajus [Cebus] apella). Personality and Individual Differences, 58, 89-94.

Lefevre, C., Wilson, V., Morton, F., Brosnan, S., Paukner, A., & Bates, T. (2014). Facial width-to-height ratio relates to alpha status and assertive personality in capuchin monkeys. PloS One, 9(4), e93369.

Book Chapters

Wilson, V. (2019). Hominoid. In (J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford, Eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer.

Wilson, V. (2019). Hominid. In (J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford, Eds.) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer.

Wilson, V. & Weiss, A. (2015). Social relationships in nonhuman primates: potential models of pervasive disorders. In (P. Roubertoux, Ed.) Organism Models of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Neuromethods, volume 100. NY: Springer.

Pre-prints

Wilson, V., Sauppe, S., Brocard, S. Ringen, E. J., Daum, M. M., Wermelinger, S., Gu, N., Andrews, C., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Bickel, B. & Zuberbühler, K. (2023, Nov 24). Primate origins of event cognition. BioRxiv Preprint

Wilson, V., Kade, C., Moeller, S., Treue, S., C., Kagan, I., & Fischer, J. (2019, Sep 5). Development of a monkey avatar to study responses to social perception in macaques. BioRxiv Preprint.

Wilson, V., Gartner, M., D'Eath, R., Little, A., Buchanan-Smith, H. & Morton, F. (2018, April 11). Capuchin monkeys do not differentiate between images of different facial width. PsyArXiv Preprint.