Annual Reviews Conversations

Dr. Eric Nestler talks with Dr. Paul Greengard about his scientific career for the Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Vol. 53.

Michael Tomasello, of the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, discusses his article for the 2013 Annual Review of Psychology, titled "Origins of Human Cooperation and Morality." In this lecture, he shares footage of chimpanzees and of toddlers collaborating, showing that while cooperation exists among other primates, it is much more developed in our societies, even among very young humans. Children have a stronger sense of egalitarianism, and do a better job of suppressing their self-interest when they cooperate on a task. Not only that, they are capable of demonstrating norm-based group-mindedness, another form of collaboration.

Tanya Chartrand, Roy J. Bostock Marketing Professor, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and Contributor of the 2012 Annual Review of Psychology, talks about her article The Antecedents and Consequences of Human Behavioral Mimicry.

Dr. Govindjee, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Plant Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about his life and career with Dr. Donald Ort, Professor of Plant Biology at the same university and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Plant Biology. Dr. Ort describes Dr. Govindjee as an icon of photosynthesis, and Dr. Govindjee discusses some of his most exciting discoveries on photosynthesis since he started investigating the matter with Robert Emerson in the 1950s. Dr. Govindjee also tells Dr. Ort about his beginnings at the University of Allahabad in India, and explains why he doesn't have a family name.

Professor Robert M. Seyfarth discusses social behavior of baboons, including the link between close friendships and longevity.

Suzanne Fenton, Leader of the Reproductive Endocrinology Group at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and Contributor of the 2012 Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her article Perinatal Environmental Exposures Affect Mammary Development, Function, and Cancer Risk in Adulthood.

Michael Hout, contributor of the 2012 Annual Review of Sociology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States.

Richard Valelly, Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and Contributor of the 2012 Annual Review of Political Science, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article LGBT Politics and American Political Development.

Nevin Young, Professor of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota, St Paul and Author of the 2012 Annual Review of Plant Biology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about his article Genome-Enabled Insights into Legume Biology, which he co-wrote with Arvind Bharti, of the National Center for Genome Resources.

Susan A. Gelman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Author of the 2009 Annual Review of Psychology and the 2011 Annual Review of Anthropology, talks to Anna Rascouët-Paz about her articles Learning from Others: Children's Construction of Concepts, and Concepts and Folk Theories.