User:KHuckaby1920/Sara Shettleworth
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Sara J. Shettleworth (born 1943) is an American-born, Canadian experimental psychologist and zoologist, with a focus on animal cognition. Shettleworth has been credited with expanding the field of animal cognition over her long career.[1] Over the years, she has earned countless awards and commendations. Shettleworth was honored by the Comparative Cognition Society at their 2008 annual meeting for her work in animal cognition and behavior, and presented with the Comparative Cognition Society Research Award.[2] In 2012 the Canadian Society For Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science honored her with the Donald Hebb award for her many contributions to psychological science.[3] As a professor at the University of Toronto, she taught for 39 years before retiring from teaching to focus on her research.[4] Over her career she has appeared in over 101 publications and her work has been produced in three languages (English, German & Hebrew).[5]
She grew up in Maine and is a graduate of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.[6] She started her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania before transferring to the University of Toronto, where she finished her doctoral studies in comparative psychology. She has lived in Canada since 1967 with her husband, the biologist Nicholas Mrosovsky.[6]