Dr. Brian Hare, currently the Director of the Hominoid Psychology Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany), will join the Duke faculty in December of 2007, with a joint appointment in BAA and in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Dr. Hare earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University (2004), and is the recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research concerns social cognition and social problem solving in hominoids and other anthropoid primates, and in various canids (from wolves and foxes to domesticated foxes and dogs). Please go to http://email.eva.mpg.de/~hare/ to read more about his work. [more]