Diana Reiss (born 1948 or 1949
in
Philadelphia
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,
Pennsylvania
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) is a professor of
psychology
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at
Hunter College and in the graduate program of Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at the
City University of New York. Reiss's research has focused on understanding cognition and communication in
dolphin
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s and other
cetaceans. Her important contributions include demonstrating mirror self-awareness in dolphins via the
Mirror test
The mirror test—sometimes called the mark test, mirror self-recognition (MSR) test, red spot technique, or rouge test—is a behavioral technique developed in 1970 by American psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. as an attempt to determine whether an ...
.
Her work in conservation and
animal welfare includes "the protection of dolphins in the tuna-fishing industry and her current efforts to bring an end to the killing of dolphins in the drive hunts in Japan."
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She was the scientific advisor for '' The Cove''Temple University
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.
Bibliography
The following are a selection of Diana Reiss' peer-reviewed publications.
* Reiss D, B McCowan, and L Marino. 1997. Communicative and other cognitive characteristics of bottlenose dolphins. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 1(4):140-145.
* Reiss D and L Marino. 2001. Mirror self-recognition in the bottlenose dolphin: A case of cognitive convergence. ''PNAS.'' 98(10):5937-5942.
* Plotnik JM, FBM de Waal, and D Reiss. 2006. Self-recognition in an Asian elephant. ''PNAS.'' 103(45):17053-17057.
* Marino L, RC Connor, RE Fordyce, LM Herman, PR Hof, L Lefebvre, D Lusseau, B McCowan, EA Nimchinsky, AA Pack, R Rendell, JS Reidenberg, D Reiss, MD Uhen, E Van der Gucht, and H Whitehead. 2007. Cetaceans have complex brains for complex cognition. ''PLoS Biology.'' 5(5):966-972.
* Plotnik JM, FBM de Waal, D Moore 3rd, and D Reiss. 2010. Self-recognition in the Asian elephant and future directions for cognitive research with elephants in zoological settings. ''ZooBiol.'' 29(2):179-191.
* Foerder P, M Galloway, T Barthel, DE Moore 3, and D Reiss. 2011. Insightful problem solving in an Asian elephant. ''PLoS ONE.'' 6(8):e23251.
References
External links
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Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gershenfeld and Vint Cerf: The interspecies internet? An idea in progress
(TED2013)
Dolphins mug for camera in awareness test
1940s births
Living people
American conservationists
American psychologists
American animal welfare scholars
Hunter College faculty
Temple University alumni
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