SoCAP Lab

The Social Cognition and Primate Behavior Lab examines how primates make important social decisions at Emory University under Dr. Marcela E. Benítez.

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

We are so excited that Fede is joining us at the @SocapLab and @AnthroEmory in the Fall!

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

The @SocapLab @AnthroEmory has had quite the week! So proud of our amazing undergraduates🎉. Junior Elizabeth Whiteside received this years Anthro Outstanding Junior Award & Senior @atlas_spencer_t was awarded highest honors for their research on🐒📢 #congrats 👏

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

So excited that @g_gnanadesikan will be joining our @SocapLab at @AnthroEmory as a FIRST postdoc scholar @FIRST_IRACDA !!! 🥳 🎉🐒

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

Emory undergrads repping @SocapLab and Capuchinos de Taboga at the @ATLSciFest #SciComm

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

When you have lab meeting on Halloween 🎃 🙊 @SocapLab @AnthroEmory @EloLonsdorf @atlas_spencer_t @NicFurgala @bre___myers @libsthoughts

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

Sure science is fun but have you ever collected pee from an arboreal monkey after an intergroup encounter? @Sarah_Kovo @JordanLucore #fieldworkfun #gradschool

[Anthropology at Emory University @AnthroEmory]

Marcela Benítez is awarded AI.Humanity Seed Grant for “AI Forest: Cognition in the Wild.” proposal https://t.co/sHmwN8yKrv

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

First day of school @AnthroEmory #grade24 #professorlife

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

Congrat to @Sarah_Kovo for presenting her first poster at #ABS2022. Barely got a chance to see it as she was surrounded the entire 2-hour poster session! @AnthroEmory @SocapLab

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

Exciting new pub on neopterin in captive and wild capuchins spearheaded by @JordanLucore in collaboration with Andrew Marshall and @DrSFBrosnan @SocapLab

[Dr. Marcela E. Benítez 🏳️‍🌈 @mebenitez85]

Capcakes to celebrate the last @SocapLab meeting of 2021. This year we ambitiously submit both Cebus and Sapajus Capcakes to #TheGreatAcademicBakeOff (this should be a thing) #AcademicTwitter #monkeymonday

[SoCAP Lab @SocapLab]

@loganesav @Sarah_Kovo We take tubes prepped with phosphoric acid which helps with degradation and put them on ice right away until we can take them to the -20 back at the field station!

[SoCAP Lab @SocapLab]

Action shot of @EmoryAnthro grad student @Sarah_Kovo collecting pee samples from capuchins to examine oxytocin and social behavior! #NSFDDRIG #SoCAP