Friederike Range

Friederike Range (born October 12, 1971 in Bad Pyrmont ) is a German behavioral scientist .

Life

Range made her Abitur at Engelbert-Kaempfer-Gymnasium in Lemgo and studied up to the diploma at the University of Bayreuth biology . She did her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania on the social behavior of soot reports in Taï National Park . After a stay at the Konrad Lorenz Research Center in Grünau im Almtal , Range did research on dogs at the University of Vienna . Among other things, a study on the imitation behavior of dogs was carried out there, analogous to the study on the imitation behavior of small children by the Hungarian psychologist György Gergely from 2002. The study comes to the conclusion that dogs only imitate the behavior of other dogs if they can do it efficiently appears. This work was recognized in 2008 with the Focus of Excellence , a research award for young talent from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna.

The result of a study that looked into the question of how dogs react to unequal treatment (with two dogs each, who were rewarded for giving paws and not rewarded on the other hand), appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009 and aroused international attention A stir.

Range is co-founder of the Wolf Science Center , which was created in cooperation with the Konrad Lorenz Research Center in Grünau and which moved to Ernstbrunn in 2009 . There, in collaboration with researchers from the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, a publication on the subject of the difference between wolf and dog was created, which was also featured in Science . In 2010, a study appeared that said dogs imitate their owners. Furthermore, she dealt with the social behavior of common marmosets .

In September 2011, Range joined Ludwig Huber as university assistant at the Messerli Institute for Human-Animal Relationships at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna .

She lives in Vienna and has two children.

Awards

Range was nominated as a Rising Star by the American Psychological Association in 2009. In 2010 she received the Vienna City Promotion Prize and was the scientific co-organizer of the Canine Science Forum . In 2012 she received the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology , which is presented annually to excellent young scientists who have already made significant contributions to psychological research in their careers. In 2012 she received an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council , combined with almost EUR 1.3 million in research funds. In 2013, Friederike Range became a member of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Publications

• How do animals think? Fascinating examples from the animal kingdom . Carl Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-8000-7425-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friederike Range in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Friederike Range (University of Vienna)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage Friederike Range of the University of Vienna
2. ↑ Range, F. (2006) Social behavior of free-ranging juvenile sooty mgenauys (Cercocebus torquatus atys). In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , 59 (4): 511-520
3. ↑ ORF Oe1 , Vom Leben der Natur, radio interview about smoke-gray mangaben ( memento of the original from May 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (queried on April 29, 2010)  
4. ↑ Online newspaper of the University of Vienna (accessed on November 15, 2009)
5. ↑ Range, F., Virányi, Zs. & Huber, L. (2007) Selective imitation in dogs. in Current Biology 17, 868-872
6. ↑ Spiegel Online , dogs do not just ape (queried on November 15, 2009)
7. ↑ Friederike Range et al .: The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs , in PNAS, Vol. 106, No. 1, pp. 340-345, January 6, 2009
8. ↑ University of Vienna: Dogs react to "unequal" treatment
9. ↑ PLOSONE : Explaining Dog Wolf Differences in Utilizing Human Pointing Gestures: Selection for Synergistic Shifts in the Development of Some Social Skills) (accessed on November 15, 2009
10. ↑ Science, September 4, 2009, Vol. 325. no. 5945, pp. 1269-1272 doi : 10.1126 / science.1176960 .
11. ↑ Proceedings of the Royal Society B : Automatic imitation in dogs (accessed on July 28, 2010)
12. ↑ Even dogs can automatically imitate Die Presse (queried on July 28, 2010)
13. ↑ Pesendorfer, M., Gunhold, T., Schiel, N., Souto, A., Huber, L., Range, F. (2009): The maintenance of traditions in marmosets: Individual habit, not social conformity? (PDF; 224 kB) in PLoS ONE 4 (2): e4472. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0004472 .
14. ↑ Curriculum Vitae: Priv. Doz. Friederike Range. Retrieved May 9, 2017 . 
15. ↑ American Psychological Society, Rising Star (accessed November 15, 2009)
16. ↑ City of Vienna: The City of Vienna's funding awards for 2010 have been determined (requested on July 28, 2010)
17. ↑ University of Vienna, Canine Science Forum (queried on January 2, 2010 in English)
18. ^ APA: 2012 Awards for Distinguished Early Career Scientific Contribution to Psychology. Animal Learning and Behavior, Comparative. Friederike Range, University of Vienna. June 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2012
19. ^ Cognitive biologist Friederike Range receives ERC Starting Grant. In: derstandard.at of September 3, 2012.
20. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences, New Members of the OeAW 2013 (PDF; 18 kB), accessed May 3, 2013.
21. ↑ Review Animals use our knowledge by Veronika Schmidt (Die Presse) March 6, 2010
22. ↑ Austrian National Library , entry “How do animals think?” ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.