Patrick Drumm, Ph.D.

Title: Visiting Research Scholar
Dept/Program: CAS 357
Phone: 330-972-4298
Email: pdrumm@uakron.edu

Biography

I am a native Ohioan and earned my undergraduate degree at the University of Toledo. Then, while attending graduate school at the University of Nevada Reno, I worked with the research team of Allen and Trixie Gardner who pioneered the teaching of American Sign Language (ASL) to chimpanzees. My thesis was an investigation of the vocal and gestural (ASL) responses of cross-fostered chimpanzees to human announcements and questions in ASL regarding affectively charged events. Later I investigated the cognitive developments supporting human problem solving from early adolescence through young adulthood. I also conducted a case study of a chimpanzee who was raised by humans from infancy, and who learned from his foster parents a gestural system of communication that he continued to use until he died. Most recently, my research interests have focused on the history of comparative psychology.

Research

History of psychology, evolutionary psychology, ethology and comparative psychology, cognition (category formation & hypothesis testing), psychology of love

Publications

Drumm, P. (2019). Cross-fostering studies. In J. Vonk & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York: Springer.

Drumm, P. (2018). Australian fantasy revisited. History of Psychology, 21, 295-296.

Drumm, P., & Jackson, D. W. (2017). Generating questions: Processing time changes between early adolescence and young adulthood. Psychology of Language and Communication, 21, 16-33.

Drumm, P. (2009). Applied animal psychology at an American roadside attraction: Animal Behavior Enterprises and the IQ Zoo of Hot Springs, Arkansas. American Journal of Psychology, 122, 537-545.

Hill, C. A., Blakemore, J. E. O., & Drumm, P. (1997). Mutual and unrequited love in adolescence and young adulthood. Personal Relationships, 3, 15-23.

Drumm, P., Gardner, B. T., & Gardner, R. A. (1986).  Vocal and gestural responses of cross-fostered chimpanzees. American Journal of Psychology, 99, 1-29.