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This fall, Hare is opening the Duke Canine Cognition Center, where he is going to test hundreds of dogs brought in by willing owners. Marc Hauser, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, recently opened his own such research lab and has 1,000 dogs lined up as subjects. Other facilities are operating in the U.S. and Europe...
...same way every child is born with the capacity to learn language, we are born to universal moral grammar, the toolkit for moral systems,” Hauser said...
...Hauser, the author of “Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong,” stimulated conversation at the Barker Center event about the discrepancies between conventional and moral transgressions. He asked hypothetical questions that kindled debate among the approximately 25 students in attendance about potential driving forces for human behavior, ranging from genetics to the environment...
...Hauser then shared his latest research on neurogenetic problems—he is currently studying a population of psychopaths, whom he characterized as lacking social emotion...
...What Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker did for language, [Hauser] is doing for neuroscience,” Kernion said...