Behavioural Biology
Han de Vries
Research associate
Analysis and models of social behaviour
Mail address:
Behavioural Biology
Padualaan 8, room O 211
3584 CH Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-30-2535403
Email: j.devries1@uu.nl
Brief biography
I studied mathematics and informatics at
the Amsterdam Free University. Since 1980 I am scientific
programmer and mathematical-statistical analyst at the
Ethology and Socio-ecology group (now: Department of
Behavioural Biology). I have developed MatMan, a program for
the analysis of sociometric matrices. In 2003 I defended my
PhD thesis Finding Structure in
Social Interaction Data. Analysis and Models of Social
Behaviour. It comprises most of
the papers listed below.
Click for a General Introduction or Summary of my
thesis. Klik hier voor de
stellingen bij m'n
proefschrift.
Main research interests
Developing mathematical-statistical
methods for the analysis of social interaction data.
Developing individual-oriented simulation models to obtain
insight in the dynamics of social relationships and social
organization and the collective behaviour of group living
animals. In this context I am also interested in Artificial
Life models, being at the same time worried about the
possible applications in robotics as sketched in the paper
by Bill Joy Why the future doesn't need
us.
Recently my research interest has shifted towards the role
of emotion and social cognition in primate social
behaviour.
I also lend assistance to empirical studies on
- the social behaviour of long-tailed macaques, barbary
macaques, rhesus monkeys, Thomas langurs, orangutans,
chimpanzees, bonobos, baboons, bisons, Icelandic horses,
wolves, dogs, cats, mice, bees, birds
- the social behaviour of children with conduct disorder,
ADHD, PDD or autism.
Key publications
- Han de Vries (1993) The rowwise correlation between two proximity matrices and the partial rowwise correlation. Psychometrika 58 (1): pp. 53-69. [Article in PDF format]
- Han de Vries, Willem J. Netto, Peter L.H. Hanegraaf (1993) MatMan: a program for the analysis of sociometric matrices and behavioural transition matrices. Behaviour 125 (3-4): pp. 157-175. [Article in PDF format]
- Han de Vries (1995) An improved test of linearity in dominance hierarchies containing unknown or tied relationships. Animal Behaviour 50 pp. 1375-1389. [Article in PDF format]
- Han de Vries (1998) Finding a dominance order most consistent with a linear hierarchy: a new procedure and review. Animal Behaviour 55 pp. 827-843. [Article in PDF format]
- Han de Vries and Jacobus C. Biesmeijer (1998) Modelling collective foraging by means of individual behaviour rules in honey bees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 44 pp. 109-124. [Article in PDF format]
- Han de Vries and Michael C. Appleby (2000) Finding an appropriate order for a hierarchy: a comparison of the I&SI and the BBS methods. Animal Behaviour 59 pp. 239-245. [Article in PDF format}
- Han de Vries and Jacobus C. Biesmeijer (2002) Self-organization in collective honeybee foraging: emergence of symmetry breaking, cross inhibition and equal harvest rate distribution. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51 pp. 557-569. [Article in PDF format]
- Han de Vries, Jeroen M.G. Stevens & Hilde Vervaecke (2006) Measuring and testing the steepness of dominance hierarchies. Animal Behaviour 71: 585-592 [Article in PDF format]
- Han de Vries (2009) On using the DomWorld model to evaluate dominance ranking methods. Behaviour 146: 843-869. [Article in PDF format]
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