Inside the social minds -- and amazing memories -- of chimps and bonobos, with Laura Simone Lewis, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
Kim Mills
4.5 • 839 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. |
| 0:03.0 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the Ultimate Collab. |
| 0:08.0 | Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. |
| 0:11.0 | Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal. |
| 0:14.0 | Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy whilst it's last. |
| 0:20.0 | If you open your high school yearbook, you'll probably recognize Until the 2nd of February, from 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy, whilst dots last. |
| 0:26.5 | If you open your high school yearbook, you'll probably recognize many of the faces of your classmates, |
| 0:32.2 | even if you haven't seen them in years. That might seem like a uniquely human ability, |
| 0:39.3 | but recent research with chimpanzees and bonobos has found that they too can recognize individuals even after spending many years apart. Today we're going to talk with a researcher who studies these great apes |
| 0:44.1 | about how humans' closest relatives navigate their social world. So how closely are we related to |
| 0:50.7 | these non-human primates? What else can they do that might surprise us? What catches |
| 0:56.4 | their attention in the social world? And what can their behavior teach us about the evolution |
| 1:01.4 | of human social intelligence? Welcome to Speaking of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the |
| 1:10.3 | American Psychological Association |
| 1:12.0 | that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm Kim Mills. |
| 1:21.0 | My guest today is Dr. Laura Simone Lewis, an assistant professor in the departments of |
| 1:26.3 | psychological and brain sciences |
| 1:27.8 | and anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
| 1:32.4 | She studies social cognition in bonobos and chimpanzees, including how these great apes |
| 1:37.7 | form, build, maintain, and repair their long-term social relationships. |
| 1:43.9 | Her research findings have been published in peer-reviewed journals and covered in media and repair their long-term social relationships. |
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