Emory Department of Psychology - Faculty

Kim Wallen, Ph.D.

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroendocrinology 

Research Professor of Psychobiology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Animal Behavior 
Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Undergraduate program in Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology (NBB)

409 Psychology Building
Department of Psychology
Emory University
532 N. Kilgo Circle N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30322 


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Phone: (404) 727-4125
Fax: (404) 727-0372
Email: kim@emory.edu


Biographical Information

BA Biology Antioch College, 1970
Ph.D. Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1978

Emory Department of Psychology - Faculty Academic Interests

Courses Currently Taught

Research

Recent Publications
Wallen, K. (1996) Nature needs nurture: The interaction of hormonal and social influences on the development of behavioral sex differences in rhesus monkeys. Hormones and Behavior. 30:364-378. 

Drea, C.M. and Wallen, K. (1999) Low status monkeys "play dumb" when learning in mixed social groups.  P.N.A.S.  96:12965-12969.

Herman, R.A., Jones, B. Mann, D.R., & Wallen, K. (2000) Timing of prenatal androgen exposure: anatomical and endocrine effects on juvenile male and female rhesus monkeys.  Hormones and Behavior 38:52-66.

Zehr, J.L., Tannenbaum, P.L., Jones, B., and Wallen, K. (2000) Peak occurrence of female sexual initiation predicts day of conception in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Reproduction Fertility and Development. 12:1-8.

Tomaszycki, M.L, Davis, J.E., Gouzoules, H., and Wallen, K. (2001)  Sex Differences in Infant Rhesus Macaque Separation-Rejection Vocalizations: The Relationship to the Prenatal Hormone Environment. Hormones and Behavior 39:267-276.

Wallen, K. (2001) Sex and context: Hormones and primate sexual motivation. Hormones and Behavior.  40:339-357.

Wallen, K, and Baum, M.J. (2002) Masculinization and defeminization in altricial and precocial mammals:  Comparative aspects of steroid hormone action. In (Pfaff, D.W.Ed) Hormones,Brain, and Behavior., Academic Press, New York, pp. 385-423

Herman, R.A., Measday, M.A., and Wallen, K. (2003) Sex differences in interest in infants in juvenile rhesus monkeys: relationship to prenatal androgen.  Hormones and Behavior  43:573-583

Other Recent Publications

Emory Department of Psychology - Faculty Other Interests

Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology


Hormones and Behavior


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