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Background
Dr. Kim A. Bard spent a year in the rain forest in Borneo, Indonesia studying young free-ranging orangutans, as part of her PhD research (awarded 1988 from Georgia State University, GA, USA), In the 1980s, Dr. Bard held 2 postdoctoral posts, one with Prof Dr. Hanus Papousek at the Department of Developmental Psychobiology, Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Germany to study intuitive parenting in chimpanzees; and the second with Dr. Stephen J. Suomi at the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology, Poolesville, USA, and Dr Frederick King at Yerkes Research Center, to study bio-behavioural responsivity in chimpanzee infants.
As a Research Scientist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University from 1989, she investigated the roles of emotion and socialization in early development, and designed a Responsive Care Nursery to enhance species-typical development in chimpanzees. In 1998, she held the post of Senior Research Fellow, working with Dr. Eugene Emory in the Department of Psychology at Emory University. In 1999, Dr. Bard became a Senior Lecturer at Portsmouth and in 2002, Director of the Centre for the Study of Emotion and a Reader in Comparative Developmental Psychology. Dr Bard has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and 29 book chapters (see CV). Dr. Bard is Associate Editor, British Journal of Psychology, and is on the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Comparative Psychology, and Primates. Her affiliation include amongst others the Centre for the Study of Emotion.
Research Interests
Kim Bard has a distinctive perspective, which concerns understanding the process of development in evolution. She conducts empirical studies with an eye to clarifying universal and species-specific characteristics of humans and great apes. Her studies of social cognition suggest that humans and great apes share a large degree of plasticity, especially in early socio-emotional communicative abilities. These social cognitive abilities include intentional and referential communication, and social referencing (i.e., the ability to seek information from a caregiver about novel objects and use that emotional information to regulate behaviour). The study of these abilities across species leads to better understanding of the precursors, contexts, and sequelae of social cognition in human development.
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