College of the Sciences Primate Behavior and Ecology Program

Publications: Peer-reviewed Abstracts (names of student co-authors are bolded and underlined)

Matheson, M., Malone, N., & Fuentes, A. (2002). Post-conflict interactions with third-parties in a small social group of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology, 57(Suppl.1), 23-24.
Matheson, M., Malone, N., & Fuentes, A. (2001). Analysis of initiators and recipients of post-conflict behavior in a small social group of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). American Journal of Primatology, 54(Suppl.1), 30.
Matheson, M.D., Parr, L., Bernstein, I.S., and de Waal, F.B.M. (1995). Dominance and grooming in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). American Journal of Primatology, 36(2), 132.

Publications: Commentaries

Matheson, M.D. & Fragaszy, D.M. (1998). Imitation is not the Holy Grail of comparative cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 697 - 698.

Matheson, M.D., Cooper, M., Weeks, J., Thompson, R., & Fragaszy, D. (1998). Attribution is more likely to be demonstrated in more natural contexts. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 124 - 126.

Manuscripts in preparation or review (names of student co-authors are bolded and underlined)

Matheson, M., Hartel, J., Whitaker, C., Sheeran, L, Li, J. & Wagner, S. Post-conflict and self-directed behaviors in Tibetan macaques. In preparation.

Lackey, D., Smith, C., Matheson, M., Sheeran, L., Li, J., & Wagner, S., The use of spot pattern identification for inferring demographic structure in the Chinese Paddle-Tail Salamander, Pachytriton brevipes labiatus. In preparation for the International Journal of Zoology.

Presentations – National & International (names of student co-authors are bolded and underlined)

Self-directed behavior correlates with tourist density in free-living Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys, Mt. Huangshan, China, by M.D. Matheson, J. Hartel, C. Whitaker, L.K. Sheeran, J.H. Li, & R.S. Wagner. Oral paper accepted for presentation at the 30^th annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, Winston-Salem N.C., June 2007.
Sequences of Tibetan macaque behaviors and tourist behaviors at Mt. Huangshan, China, by M.S. McCarthy, M.D. Matheson, L.K. Sheeran, J.D. Lester, J.H. Li, and R.S. Wagner. Oral paper accepted for presentation at the 30^th annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, Winston-Salem N.C., June 2007.
School Psychologist Retention and Recruitment: Insights From Practitioners, by E.R. Johnson, J. Peterson, M. Matheson, and T. DeVietti. Poster presented at the National Association of School Psychologists, March 2006.
The Effect of Scheduled versus Opportunistic Enrichment on Zoo Animals, by L.B. Fernandez, M.D. Matheson, and S. Forbes. Poster paper presented at the International Conference on Environmental Enrichment at Columbia University in New York NY, July/August 2005.
Aggression and Use of Space with Move to a Novel Environment in Captive
Cebus paella, by M. Howells and M. Matheson. Poster paper presented at the 102^nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association at the Chicago Hilton and Towers in Chicago IL, November 2003.


Post-conflict Interactions with Third Parties in a Small Social Group of Captive Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). by M.D. Matheson, N. Malone, and A. Fuentes. Oral paper presented at the 25th annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists at the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City OK, June 2002.
An Analysis of Initiators and Recipients of Post-conflict Behavior in a Small Social Group of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), by M. Matheson, N. Malone, and A. Fuentes. Oral paper delivered at the 24^th annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah GA, August 2001.
An Ongoing Study of the Female Copulation Call in Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), by J.B. Fraver, A. Fuentes, M. Matheson, K.G. Suaryana, and G. Emel. Poster paper presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists 70th Annual Meeting in Kansas City MO, March 2001.
Behavioral Measures of Stress: An Example From Capuchin Monkeys, by M.D. Matheson. Poster paper presented at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society at the University of Maryland, College Park MD, June 1997.
Brief Separation of Group Members and Subsequent Social Interactions in a Captive Group of Tufted Capuchin Monkeys, by M.D. Matheson. Oral paper delivered at the joint Congress of the International Primatological Society and annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, August 1996.
Dominance and Grooming in Tufted Capuchin Monkeys, by M.D. Matheson, L. Parr, I.S. Bernstein, and F.B.M. de Waal. Poster paper presented at the 18^th annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, Safari Resort, Scottsdale AZ, July 1995.
Male Reunions in a Captive Group of Tufted Capuchin Monkeys, by M.D. Matheson, J.S. Johnson, and J. Feuerstein. Oral paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, University of Washington, Seattle WA, July 1994.

Presentations – Regional (names of student co-authors are bolded and underlined)

Population size estimates of chinese paddle-tail salamanders using mark-recapture with spot pattern recognition, by M. Lester, M. Matheson, L. Sheeran, J. Li., R. Steven Wagner. Presentation at the meeting of the Society for Northwest Vertebrate Biology, Victoria, Canada, February 2007.

Abundance and demography of Chinese Paddle-Tail salamanders, by M. Lester, M. Matheson, L. Sheeran, J. Li and R.S. Wagner. Poster presentation at the Fifteenth Regional Conference on Undergraduate Research of the Murdock College Science Research Program, University of Portland, OR, 2006.
Investigations of possible impacts of tourist density, behavior, and decibel levels on Tibetan macaque aggression, by L. Ruesto, L.K. Sheeran, M.D. Matheson, J.H. Li, and R.S. Wagner. Oral paper given at the Northwest Anthopological Conference, Seattle WA, March 2006.

Demography and non-invasive individual identification using spot patterns in Chinese salamanders (Pachytriton brevipes), by D. Lackey, M. Matheson, L. Sheeran, J.H. Li, and S. Wagner. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Society of Northwest Vertebrate Biology, Olympia WA, March 2006.
The development of the multicultural assimilation attitudes scale, by J. Herbold, S. Schepman, M. Matheson, R. Sorrells, & A. Stahelski. Poster paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland OR, April 2005.
Reconsidering the tragedy of the commons: Effects of feedback on self-assessment accuracy and performance, by E.A. McCune, B.L. Lagerquist, J.L. Eubanks, T.L. DeVietti, & M.D. Matheson. Poster paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Portland OR, April 2005.
Preliminary Analysis of Aggression and Monkey-Human Interactions in Habituated Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana), Huangshan, China, by M.D. Matheson, L.K. Sheeran, and R.S. Wagner. Oral paper delivered at the 58^th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane WA, March 2005.
Amphibian Biodiversity and Primate Conservation Research in the Yellow Mountains of China, by R.S. Wagner, L.K. Sheeran, and M.D. Matheson. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Society of Northwest Vertebrate Biology, Corvallis OR, February 2005.