Researcher Profile

Elisabetta Palagi

🏛 Natural History Museum University of Pisa Calci Pisa Italy; Unit of Cognitive Primatology and Primate Center Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies CNR Rome Italy

0000-0002-2038-4596

Publications

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Publications

Journal Article Applied Animal Behaviour Science Jul 01, 2026

Face to FACE® – Investigating horses' perception of facial expressions performed by an android robot

Paolo Baragli · Lorenzo Frassineti · Martina Felici · Claire Ricci-Bonot +7 more

10.1016/j.applanim.2026.106998

Open Access Journal Article Applied Animal Behaviour Science Nov 01, 2025

Male removal sparks aggression, infant kidnapping and death in captive geladas (Theropithecus gelada)

Luca Pedruzzi · Martina Francesconi · Alessia Cudini · Paolo Oliveri +2 more

10.1016/j.applanim.2025.106836 1 citations

Journal Article Behavioral and Brain Sciences Jan 01, 2025

Play and laughter: overlooked pillars of social cohesion. Commentary proposal for structural and cognitive mechanisms of group cohesion in primates

Elisabetta Palagi · Fausto Caruana · Gordon Burghardt

10.1017/s0140525x25100393

Journal Article Behavioural Processes Nov 01, 2021

Infant handling increases grooming towards mothers in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada)

Marta Caselli · Anna Zanoli · Elisabetta Palagi · Ivan Norscia

10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104501 9 citations

Journal Article Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews Apr 01, 2020

The neuroethology of spontaneous mimicry and emotional contagion in human and non-human animals

Elisabetta Palagi · Alessia Celeghin · Marco Tamietto · Piotr Winkielman +1 more

10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.020 157 citations

Journal Article Emotion Jun 01, 2019

Facial mimicry and play: A comparative study in chimpanzees and gorillas.

Elisabetta Palagi · Ivan Norscia · Serena Pressi · Giada Cordoni

10.1037/emo0000476 49 citations

Journal Article American Journal of Primatology Aug 28, 2015

Testing yawning hypotheses in wild populations of two strepsirrhine species: Propithecus verreauxi and Lemur catta

Alessandra Zannella · Ivan Norscia · Roscoe Stanyon · Elisabetta Palagi

10.1002/ajp.22459 30 citations

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