People

Jeffrey R. Stevens

E-mail: jeffreyrstevens@protonmail.com

Phone: +1 402 472 3721

Dr. Stevens is the director of the Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Minnesota in 2002. He then spent four years as a Ruth L Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. From 2006-2011, he held a research scientist position in the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Dr. Stevens is a Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and is a resident faculty member in the Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior. He was founding editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Comparative Psychology from 2010-2017. Dr. Stevens is interested in the evolution of decision making in humans and other animals. At the moment, his research focuses on intertemporal choice, risky choice, cooperation, and human-animal interaction. He teaches courses on Evolution, Behavior and Society; Controversial Issues in Psychology; the Psychology of Decision Making; and Data Science and Visualization in R.

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Graduate Students

Francine Goh

Francine graduated with a B.S. in Psychology from Fontbonne University in 2015. As an undergraduate, she explored the effects of stress on decision making in social dilemmas for her senior thesis. Francine is interested in decision making behavior in social contexts, particularly in when individuals decide to engage in prosocial behavior and cooperate with others.

London Wolff

London graduated with honors in Biology and Animal Behavior, Ecology and Conservation from Canisius College in 2016. She completed her senior thesis on the affects of the domestication process on dogs’ social cognitive skills. Subsequently she researched decision making with orangutans and dolphins as well as long-tailed macaque social structure at the Indianapolis Zoo. London is interested in exploring how social structure and developmental differences of individuals across and within species impact their decision making processes, specifically looking at impulsivity and risk taking.