Doing What Others Do

Doing what we do best, only better

As current editor-in-chief and executive editor for the Journal of Cell Biology, we are writing to describe our shared vision for the journal: To enable the swift and painless publication of advances and thought-provoking ideas in a range of fields that inform cell biology, and to promote this high-quality work as broadly as possible in our community. Throughout 2015, we celebrated the 60th ann...

Do researchers know what they are doing?

Do you do what you say or do you do what you say others do?

We design a donations vs. own money choice experiment comparing three different treatments. In two of the treatments the pay-offs are hypothetical. In the first of these, a short cheap talk script was used, and subjects were required to state their own preferences in this scenario. In the second, subjects were asked to state how they believed an average student would respond to the choices. In ...

What do ye more than others?

What do monkeys know about others' knowledge?

Recently, comparative psychologists have suggested that primates represent others' knowledge states. Evidence for this claim comes from studies demonstrating that primates expect others to maintain representations of objects when those objects are not currently visible. However, little work has explored whether nonhuman primates expect others to share the more sophisticated kinds of object know...