Dr. Duncan Wilson
Lecturer in Comparative Psychology
Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Letters
Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi 36-1, Sakyo-ku
Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
Tel: +81 (0)75-753-4901
E-mail: wilson.duncan.7a[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp
Department website: https://www.psy.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Research profile: https://researchmap.jp/dawilson100
I lecture on Comparative Psychology and Primate Behaviour and Cognition. My research focuses on using experimental methods from human psychology to understand the relationship between cognition and emotion in non-human primates.
Degrees
DSc Comparative Psychology, Kyoto University
MSc Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare, University of Edinburgh
BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Hull
Research Areas
Comparative Psychology, Primatology, Animal Behaviour, Animal Welfare
Teaching
Introduction to Comparative Psychology
Introduction to Primate Behaviour and Cognition
Digesting Scientific English
Scientific Writing and Presenting in English
Psychology Lectures I
Publications
Yamanashi, Y., Ikkatai, Y., Honjo, M., Tokuyama, N., Akami, R., Wilson, D. A., Buchanan-Smith, H. M. (2025). A comparison of attitudes towards animal welfare between British and Japanese zoo visitors: Where and when do cultural differences diverge?. PLoS ONE 20(4): e0320241. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0320241
Caeiro, C.C., Mouri, K., Huffman, M.A., Wilson, D. A., Wang. X., Miyabe-Nishiwaki, T. (2024). Hormonal and behavioural responses to visual social cues in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 106177. doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2024.106177
Wilson, D. A., Miyabe, T. (2023). History and Concepts of Primate Animal Welfare Studies. In: Nakagawa, N. (Ed.) The Encyclopaedia of Primatology (pp. 532–533). Maruzen, Tokyo [in Japanese]
Caeiro, C. C., Burrows, A., Wilson, D. A., Abdelrahman, A., Miyabe-Nishiwaki, T. (2022). CalliFACS: The common marmoset Facial Action Coding System. PLoS ONE 17(5): e026644. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266442 (CalliFACS website: https://animalfacs.com/callifacs)
Wilson, D. A., Tomonaga, M. (2022). Search asymmetries for threatening faces in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 136,1, 20–34. doi: 10.1037/com0000302 (open access manuscript: https://psyarxiv.com/kc4xj/)
Wilson, D. A., Tomonaga, M. (2018). Exploring attentional bias towards threatening faces in chimpanzees using the dot probe task. PLoS ONE 13(11): e0207378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207378
Wilson, D. A., Tomonaga, M. (2018). Visual discrimination of primate species based on faces in chimpanzees. Primates, 59, 3, 243–251. doi: 10.1007/s10329-018-0649-8 (open access manuscript: https://psyarxiv.com/4u9bn/)
Wilson, D. A., Tomonaga, M., Vick, S-J. (2016). Eye preferences in capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella). Primates, 57, 3, 433–440. doi: 10.1007/s10329-016-0537-z (open access manuscript: https://psyarxiv.com/rd3xs/)
Tlauka, M., Donaldson, P., Wilson, D. (2008). Forgetting in spatial memories acquired in a virtual environment. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 1, 69–84. doi: 10.1002/acp.1341
Wilson, P. N., Wilson, D. A., Griffiths, L., Fox, S. (2007). First-perspective spatial alignment effects from real-world exploration. Memory & Cognition, 35, 1432–1444. doi: 10.3758/BF03193613
Research Grants
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists (2024–2026)
Project: Comparing cognitive flexibility in wild and captive Japanese macaques using a touchscreen reversal learning task
PI: Duncan Wilson
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (2021–2024)
Project: Geometric morphometrics for the study of facial expression of pain in common marmosets
PI: Duncan Wilson
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Fellows (2020–2021)
Project: A novel method to assess pain in common marmosets using facial expressions
PI: Takako Miyabe, Co-I: Duncan Wilson
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (2018–2020)
Project: Comparing emotional attention in humans and chimpanzees: Is the touchscreen dot probe task an effective tool?
PI: Duncan Wilson