Andrew C. Gallup
Contact Information:
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544
E-mail: a.c.gallup@gmail.com; agallup@princeton.edu
Education:
Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Binghamton University (2010)
B.A. in Psychology with Honors, University at Albany (2007)
Teaching Experience:
Courses I have taught in the past include Evolution for Everyone (Instructor: 2008; 2009; 2010/TA: 2007; 2009), Introduction to Population and Organismal Biology (TA: 2009; 2010), Animal Behavior (TA: 2008); Cultural Evolutionary Theory (TA: 2008), Evolution and Human Behavior (Instructor: 2008; 2009; 2010), and Current Topics in Evolutionary Studies (TA: 2008).
Research Interests:
The focus of my postdoctoral research has been to investigate how contagious behaviors promote information transfer in human crowds. Some of my other research has investigated the function(s) of spontaneous and contagious yawning, social strategies of resource acquisition and mating competition, and sexual conflict and multilevel selection.
Selected Publications:
* – Undergraduate author; † Co-first author
Gallup, A.C., Chong, A.*, and Couzin, I.D. (submitted). The directional flow of visual information transfer between pedestrians.
Gallup, A.C.†, Hale, J.J.†, Sumpter, D.J.T ., Garnier, S., Kacelnik, A., Krebs, J.R., and Couzin, I.D. (submitted). Visual attention and information transfer in human crowds.
Miller, M.L.†*, Gallup, A.C.†, Vogel, A.R.*, Vicario, S.M., and Clark, A.B. (in press). Evidence for contagious behaviors in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): an observational study on yawning and stretching. Behavioural Processes.
Miller, M.L.†*, Gallup, A.C.†, Vogel, A.R.*, and Clark, A.B. (in press). Auditory disturbances promote temporal clustering of yawning and stretching in small groups of budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Eldakar, O.T., and Gallup, A.C. (2011). The group-level consequences of sexual conflict in multigroup populations. PLoS ONE, 6, e26451.
Gallup, A.C., and Eldakar, O.T. (2011). Contagious yawning and seasonal climate variation. Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, 3, 1-4.
O’Brien, D.T., and Gallup, A.C. (2011). Using Tinbergen’s four questions (plus one) to facilitate evolution education for human-oriented disciplines. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 4, 107-113.
Gallup, A.C., O’Brien, D.T., and Wilson, D.S. (2011). Intrasexual peer aggression and dating behavior during adolescence: an evolutionary perspective. Aggressive Behavior, 37, 258-267.
Gallup, A.C., Miller, R.R., and Clark, A.B. (2011). Changes in ambient temperature trigger yawning but not stretching in rats. Ethology, 117, 145-153.
Gallup, A.C. (2011). Why do we yawn? Primitive versus derived features. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 35, 765-769.
Gallup, A.C., O’Brien, D.T., and Wilson, D.S. (2010). The relationship between adolescent peer aggression and responses to a sequential Prisoner’s Dilemma game during college: an explorative study. Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, 4, 277-289.
Gallup, A.C., Miller, M.L.*, and Clark, A.B. (2010). The direction and range of ambient temperature influences yawning in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 124, 133-138.
Gallup, A.C., O’Brien, D.T., White, D.D, and Wilson, D.S. (2009). Peer victimization in adolescence has different effects on the sexual behavior of male and female college students. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 611-615.
Gallup, A.C., Miller, M.L.*, and Clark, A.B. (2009). Yawning and thermoregulation in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). Animal Behaviour, 77, 109-113.
Gallup, A.C., and Gallup Jr., G.G. (2008). Yawning and thermoregulation. Physiology & Behavior, 95, 10-16.
Gallup, A.C., White, D.D., and Gallup Jr., G.G. (2007). Handgrip strength predicts sexual behavior, body morphology, and aggression in male college students. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28, 423-429.
Media Consulting:
My research has been featured in media sources such as ABC News Good Morning America, BBC News and Radio, BBC Wildlife Magazine, The Boston Globe, CBC Radio, The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Telegraph, Discovery News, NBC, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, National Public Radio (NPR), The Toronto Star, US News and World Report, The Vancouver Sun, and WedMD.