Curriculum vitae
Address: | B83 East Stadium | Phone: | +1 402 472 1840 |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln | Fax: | +1 402 472 4637 | |
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588 | E-mail: |
Google Scholar Citations | Twitter: @JeffStevensADML |
ResearchGate | GitHub: jstevens5 |
Publons: C-4619-2011 | Open Science Framework |
ORCID: 0000-0003-2375-1360 | ImpactStory |
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Academic Positions
Education
B.S. | Baylor University, Waco, Texas (1992-1996) Magna cum laude |
Majors: Biology, Environmental Studies; Minor: Political Science | |
Ph.D. | University of Minnesota, St. Paul (1997-2002) |
Major: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Minor: Psychology | |
Dissertation: The behavioral ecology of food sharing | |
Advisor: David Stephens |
Research Interests
My research uses the bounded rationality approach, which explores how organisms with limited time, information, and computational abilities make adaptive decisions. This approach emphasizes two key aspects of decision making. First, to properly study decisions, we must understand the decision process. This involves developing formal models that describe the cognitive processes organisms use when making decisions. It also involves exploring the cognitive capacities required to implement these processes. Second, the bounded rationality approach highlights the role of the environment in decision making. A decision process is ecologically rational when there is an adaptive fit between the decision process and the structure of the environment in which the organism operates. I use this bounded rationality approach to study intertemporal choice, risky choice, cooperation, and social contact patterns.
Publications
Preprints
- Goh, F.W., Jungck, A.C., & Stevens, J.R. (2020).
Pro tip: Screen-based payment methods increase negative feelings in consumers but do not increase tip sizes. PsyArXiv.
Forthcoming
- Marvin, S., Sorenson, K., & Stevens, J.R. (forthcoming).
Bringing human-animal interaction to sport: Potential impacts on athletic performance. European Journal of Sport Science.
- Schutte, A., Torquati, J., & Stevens, J.R. (forthcoming). Nature and Psychology: Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, and Social Pathways to Well-Being. New York: Springer.
- Schutte, A., Torquati, J., & Stevens, J.R. (forthcoming). Introduction. In A. Schutte, J. Torquati, & J.R. Stevens (Eds.), Nature and Psychology: Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, and Social Pathways to Well-Being. New York: Springer.
- Stevens, J.R., Saltzman, A., Rasumussen, T., & Soh, L.-K. (forthcoming).
Improving measurements of similarity judgments with machine-learning algorithms. Journal of Computational Social Science.
- Stevens, J.R., Wolff, L.M., Bosworth, M., & Morstad, J. (forthcoming).
Dog and owner characteristics predict training success. Animal Cognition.
- Thayer, E.R. & Stevens, J.R. (forthcoming).
Effects of human-animal interactions on affect and cognition. Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin.
2021
- Addessi, E., Tierno, V., Focaroli, V., Rossi, F., Gastaldi, S., De Petrillo, F., Paglieri, F., & Stevens, J. R. (2021).
Are capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp.) sensitive to lost opportunities? The role of opportunity costs in intertemporal choice.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1819), 20190674.
- Goh, F. & Stevens, J. R. (2021).
Attribute-based choice.
In R. Viale (Ed.), Routledge handbook of bounded rationality. (pp. 242–253). Routledge.
- Koehler, K., Beckford, S. E., Thayer, E., Martin, A. R., Boron, J. B., & Stevens, J. R. (2021).
Exercise shifts hypothetical food choices towards greater amounts and more immediate consumption. Nutrients, 13(2), 347.
2020
- Arce, W. & Stevens, J. R. (2020).
Developing a computer-controlled treat dispenser for canine operant conditioning.
Journal of Open Hardware, 4(1), 6.
- Duque, J.F., Rasmussen, T., Rodriguez, A., & Stevens, J.R. (2020).
The role of mesotocin on social bonding in pinyon jays.
Ethology, 126, 165–175.
2019
- Koehler, K., Boron, J.B., Garvin, T.M., Bice, M.R., & Stevens, J.R. (2019). Differential relationship between physical activity and intake of added sugar and nutrient-dense foods: A cross-sectional analysis. Appetite, 120, 91-97.
- Stevens, J.R. & Duque, J.F. (2019).
Order matters: Alphabetizing in-text citations biases citation rates.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(3), 1020–1026.
- Thayer, E. and Stevens, J.R. (2019).
Animal-assisted intervention.
In J. Vonk & T.K. Shackelford (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior.
New York: Springer.
- Thayer, E.R. and Stevens, J.R. (2019).
Human-animal interaction.
In J. Vonk & T.K. Shackelford (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior.
New York: Springer.
2018
- Duque, J.F., Leichner, W., Ahmann, H. & Stevens, J.R. (2018).
Mesotocin influences pinyon jay prosociality.
Biology Letters, 14(4), 20180105.
- Regenwetter, M., Cavagnaro, D., Popova, A., Guo, Y., Zwilling, C., Lim, S.-H., & Stevens, J.R. (2018).
Heterogeneity and parsimony in intertemporal choice.
Decision, 5(2), 63-94.
- Stevens, J.R. & Soh, L.-K. (2018).
Predicting similarity judgments in intertemporal choice with machine learning.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(2), 627–635.
- Stevens, J.R., Woike, J.K., Schooler, L.J., Lindner, S. & Pachur, T. (2018).
Social contact patterns can buffer costs of forgetting in the evolution of cooperation.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 285(1880), 20180407.
2017
- Duque, J.F. and Stevens, J.R. (2017).
Cylinder task.
In J. Vonk & T.K. Shackelford (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior.
New York: Springer.
- Stevens, J.R. (2017).
Intertemporal choice and delayed gratification.
In J. Call (Ed.),
APA handbook of comparative psychology (pp. 535-552).
Washington, D.C.: APA Press.
- Stevens, J.R. (2017).
Impulsivity: How risk and time influence decision making.
New York: Springer.
- Stevens, J.R. (2017).
The many faces of impulsivity.
In J.R. Stevens (Ed.),
Impulsivity: How risk and time influence decision making (pp. 1-6).
New York: Springer.
- Stevens, J.R. (2017).
Replicability and reproducibility in comparative psychology.
Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 862.
- Winke, T. & Stevens, J.R. (2017).
Is cooperative memory special? The role of costly errors, context, and social network size when remembering cooperative actions.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4, 52.
2016
- Duque, J.F. and Stevens, J.R. (2016).
Voluntary food sharing in pinyon jays: The role of reciprocity and dominance.
Animal Behaviour, 122, 135-144.
- Mendelson, T.C., Fitzpatrick, C.L., Hauber, M.E., Pence, C.H., Rodriguez, R.L., Safran, R.J., Stern, C.A., Stevens, J.R. (2016).
Cognitive phenotypes and the evolution of animal decisions.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31, 850–859.
- Stevens, J.R. (2016).
Intertemporal similarity: Discounting as a last resort.
Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 29, 12-24.
- Stevens, J.R. and Duque, J.F. (2016).
Psychology of reciprocal altruism.
In T.K. Shackelford & V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.),
Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science.
New York: Springer.
- Stevens, J.R., Kennedy, B.A., Morale, D., and Burks, M. (2016).
The domain specificity of intertemporal choice in pinyon jays.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23, 915–921.
- Stevens, J.R., Marewski, J.N., Schooler, L.J., & Gilby, I.C. (2016).
Reflections of the social environment in chimpanzee memory: Applying rational analysis beyond humans.
Royal Society Open Science, 3, 160293.
2015
- Barron, A.B., Hebets, E.A., Cleland, T.A., Fitzpatrick, C.L., Hauber, M.E., Stevens, J.R. (2015).
Embracing multiple definitions of learning.
Trends in Neurosciences, 38, 405–407.
2014
- Stevens, J.R. (2014).
Evolutionary pressures on primate intertemporal choice.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 281, 20140499.
- Pachur, T., Schooler, L.J., & Stevens, J.R. (2014).
We’ll meet again: Revealing distributional and temporal patterns of social contact.
PLoS ONE, 9, e86081.
2013
- Kaighobadi, F. & Stevens, J.R. (2013).
Does fertility status influence impulsivity and risk taking in human females? Adaptive influences on intertemporal choice and risky decision making.
Evolutionary Psychology, 11, 700-717.
- Pachur, T, Schooler, L.J., & Stevens, J.R. (2013).
When we meet again: Regularities in social contact dynamics reflected in memory and decision making.
In R. Hertwig, U. Hoffrage, & the ABC Research Group (Eds.),
Simple heuristics in a social world (pp. 199-224).
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Stevens, J.R. (2013). The bounds of rationality and cognitive building blocks. Behavioral Ecology, 24, 13-14.
- Stevens, J.R. & King, A.J. (2013). The lives of others: Social rationality in animals. In R. Hertwig, U. Hoffrage, & the ABC Research Group (Eds.), Simple heuristics in a social world (pp. 409-431). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Stevens, J.R., Pachur, T., & Schooler, L. J. (2013). Rational analysis of the adaptive and predictive nature of memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2, 251-253.
2012
- Artinger, F., Fleischhut, N., Levanti, V., & Stevens, J.R. (2012). Cooperation in risky environments: decisions from experience in a stochastic social dilemma. Proceedings of the 34th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 84-89). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Gluck, K.A., McNamara, J.M., Brighton, H., Dayan, P., Kareev, Y., Krause, J., Kurzban, R., Selten, R., Stevens, J.R., Voelkl, B., & Wimsatt, W.C. (2012). Robustness in a variable environment. In P. Hammerstein & J.R. Stevens (Eds.), Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making. Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report (vol. 11, pp. 195-214). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Hammerstein, P. & Stevens, J.R. (2012). Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making. Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report (vol. 11). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Hammerstein, P. & Stevens, J.R. (2012). Six reasons to evoke evolution in decision theory. In P. Hammerstein & J.R. Stevens (Eds.), Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making. Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report (vol. 11, pp. 1-17). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Stevens, A.N.P. & Stevens, J.R. (2012). Animal cognition. Nature Education Knowledge, 3, 1.
- Stevens, J.R. & Mühlhoff, N. (2012). Intertemporal choice in lemurs. Behavioural Processes, 89, 121-127.
2011
- Mühlhoff, N., Stevens, J.R., & Reader, S.M. (2011). Spatial discounting of food and social rewards in guppies (Poecilia reticulata). Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 68.
- Seed, A., Clayton, N., Carruthers, P., Dickinson, A., Glimcher, P.W., Güntürkün, O., Hampton, R.R., Kacelnik, A., Shanahan, M., Stevens, J.R., & Tebbich, S. (2011). Planning, memory, and decision making. In R. Menzel & J. Fischer (Eds.), Animal thinking: Contemporary issues in comparative cognition. Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report (vol. 8, pp. 121-147). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Stevens, J.R. (2011). Mechanisms for decisions about the future. In R. Menzel & J. Fischer (Eds.), Animal thinking: Contemporary issues in comparative cognition. Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report (vol. 8, pp. 93-104). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Stevens, J.R., Rosati, A.G., Heilbronner, S.R., & Mühlhoff, N. (2011). Waiting for grapes: Expectancy and delayed gratification in bonobos. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 24, 99-111.
- Stevens, J.R., Volstorf, J., Schooler, L.J., & Rieskamp, J. (2011). Forgetting constrains the emergence of cooperative decision strategies. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 235.
- Volstorf, J., Rieskamp, J., & Stevens, J.R. (2011). The good, the bad, and the rare: Memory for partners in social interactions. PLoS ONE, 6, e18945.
2010
- Stevens, J.R. (2010). The challenges of understanding animal minds. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 203.
- Stevens, J.R. (2010). Donor payoffs and other-regarding preferences in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Cognition, 13, 663-670.
- Stevens, J.R. (2010). Intertemporal choice. In M. Breed, & J. Moore (Eds.), Encyclopedia of animal behavior, vol. 2 (pp. 203-208). Oxford: Academic Press.
- Stevens, J.R. (2010). Rational decision making in primates: The bounded and the ecological. In M.L. Platt & A.A. Ghazanfar (Eds.), Primate neuroethology (pp. 96-116). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Stevens, J.R. & Stephens, D.W. (2010). The adaptive nature of impulsivity. In G.J. Madden & W.K. Bickel (Eds.), Impulsivity: The behavioral and neurological science of discounting (pp. 361-387). Washington, D.C.: APA Press.
2009
- Rosati, A.G. & Stevens, J.R. (2009). Rational decisions: The adaptive nature of context-dependence choice. In S. Watanabe, A.P. Blaisdell, L. Huber, & A. Young (Eds.), Rational animals, irrational humans (pp. 101-117). Tokyo: Keio University Press.
- Stevens, J.R. & Hauser, M.D. (2009). Social interaction effects on reward and cognitive abilities in monkeys. In L. Squire (Ed.), Encyclopedia of neuroscience, vol. 9 (pp.45-58). Oxford: Academic Press.
- Straubinger, N., Cokely, E.T., & Stevens, J.R. (2009). The dynamics of development: Challenges for Bayesian rationality. Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 103-104.
2008
- Heilbronner, S.R., Rosati, A.G., Stevens, J.R., Hare, B. & Hauser, M.D. (2008). A fruit in the hand or two in the bush? Ecological pressures select for divergent risk preferences in chimpanzees and bonobos. Biology Letters, 4, 246-249.
- McElreath, R., Boyd, R., Gigerenzer, G., Glöckner, A., Hammerstein, P., Kurzban, R., Magen, S., Richerson, P., Robson, A., & Stevens, J.R. (2008). Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions. In C. Engel & W. Singer (Eds.), Better than conscious? Decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions. Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report 1 (pp. 325-342). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Stevens, J.R. (2008). The evolutionary biology of decision making. In C. Engel & W. Singer (Eds.), Better than conscious? Decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions. Ernst Strüngmann Forum Report 1 (pp. 285-304). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Stevens, J.R. & Stephens, D.W. (2008). Patience. Current Biology, 18, R11-12.
2007
- Barton, A., Mousavi, S., & Stevens, J.R. (2007). A statistical taxonomy and another "chance" for natural frequencies. Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 255-256.
- Rosati, A.G., Stevens, J.R., Hare, B. & Hauser, M.D. (2007). The evolutionary origins of human patience: Temporal preferences in chimpanzees, bonobos, and human adults. Current Biology, 17, 1663-1668.
- Stevens, J.R., Wood, J.N., & Hauser, M.D. (2007). Quantity trumps number: Discrimination experiments in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) and common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus). Animal Cognition, 10, 429-437.
2006
- Rosati, A.G., Stevens, J.R., and Hauser, M.D. (2006). The effect of handling time on temporal discounting in two New World primates. Animal Behaviour, 71, 1379-1387.
- Stephens, D.W., McLinn, C.M., & Stevens, J.R. (2006). Effects of temporal clumping and payoff accumulation on impulsiveness and cooperation. Behavioural Processes, 71, 29-40.
2005
- Stevens, J.R. and Hauser, M.D. (2005). Cooperative brains: Psychological constraints on the evolution of altruism. In S. Dehaene, J.-R. Duhamel, M.D. Hauser, & G. Rizolatti (Eds.), From monkey brain to human brain (pp. 159-187). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
- Stevens, J.R., Cushman, F.A., and Hauser, M.D. (2005). Evolving the psychological mechanisms for cooperation. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 36, 499-518.
- Stevens, J.R., Hallinan, E.V., and Hauser, M.D. (2005). The ecology and evolution of patience in two New World primates. Biology Letters, 1, 223-226.
- Stevens, J.R., Rosati, A.G., Ross, K.R., and Hauser, M.D. (2005). Will travel for food: Spatial discounting and reward magnitude in two New World monkeys. Current Biology, 15, 1855-1860.
2004
- Stevens, J.R. (2004). The selfish nature of generosity: Harassment and food sharing in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 271, 451-456.
- Stevens, J.R. and Cushman, F.A. (2004). Cognitive constraints on reciprocity and tolerated scrounging. Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 569-570.
- Stevens, J.R. and Gilby, I.C. (2004). A conceptual framework for non-kin food sharing: Timing and currency of benefits. Animal Behaviour, 67, 603-614.
- Stevens, J.R. and Hauser, M.D. (2004). Why be nice? Psychological constraints on the evolution of cooperation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 60-65.
- Stevens, J.R. and Stephens, D.W. (2004). The economic basis of cooperation: Trade-offs between selfishness and generosity. Behavioral Ecology, 15, 255-261.
2002
- Stephens, D.W., McLinn, C.M., & Stevens, J.R. (2002). Discounting and reciprocity in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Science, 298, 2216-2218.
- Stevens, J.R. and Stephens, D.W. (2002). Food sharing: A model of manipulation by harassment. Behavioral Ecology, 13, 393-400.
2001
- Stephens, D.W. and Stevens, J.R. (2001). A simple spatially-explicit ideal-free distribution: A model and an experiment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 49, 220-234.
Before 2000
- Do, L.H., Gooch, R.D., Stevens, J.R., & Holmes, W.C. (1996). New county records of Botrychium lunarioides in Texas. American Fern Journal, 86, 28-31.
- Holmes, W.C., Morgan, T.L., Stevens, J.R., Gooch, R.D., & Singhurst, J.R. (1996). Comments on the distribution of Botrychium lunarioides (Ophioglossaceae) in Texas. Phytologia, 80, 280-283.
- Morgan, T.L., Stevens, J.R., & Holmes, W.C. (1996). First report of Wolffiella lingulata (Lemnaceae) in western Mexico. SIDA, 17, 289-290.
Invited Presentations
- 2000 "Manipulative mutualism: the effects of harassment on food sharing", Department of Comparative Medicine, University of South Alabama
- 2000 "The effects of harassment on food sharing in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis)", Department of Comparative Medicine, University of South Alabama
- 2003 "The behavioral ecology of food sharing", Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
- 2004 "Temporal discounting and cooperation in non-human animals", Advances in Economics and Biology, Toulouse, France
- 2004 "Selfish minds: psychological constraints on the evolution of cooperation", Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire
- 2005 "Rational minds: the psychology and ecology of animal decision making", Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- 2005 "Rational minds: the psychology and ecology of animal decision making", Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology, Boston University
- 2006 "Evolving the psychological mechanisms for cooperation", CUSO Workshop on Evolutionary Mechanisms underlying Social Interactions, Department of Behavioral Ecology, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 2006 "Temporal discounting and aging", MaxnetAging Conference, Naples, Italy
- 2007 "The evolutionary origins of patience", Department of Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
- 2007 "Rational minds: economic decision making in animals", Ape Economics Workshop, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- 2007 "The evolution of primate patience", Department of Zoology, Oxford University
- 2007 "The evolution of patience: temporal preferences in humans and other animals", Max Planck Society PhDNet Conference, Berlin
- 2008 "The evolution of patience: temporal preferences in primates", Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
- 2008 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Evolution of Cognition and Evolution of Cooperation Workshop, Provence, France
- 2008 "The evolution of patience: temporal preferences in primates", Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Retreat, Berlin, Germany
- 2008 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Wenner-Gren Symposium on Human Evolution, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2009 "The bounded rationality of self-control", Evolution and Human Adaptation Program, University of Michigan
- 2009 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Workshop on Social interations, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 2009 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2010 "Darwinian decisions: the psychology and evolution of decision making", Zoological Society of London's Communicating Science series
- 2010 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Research Center on Animal Cognition, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
- 2010 "The ecological rationality of patience", Institute for Cognitive Science and Technologies, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
- 2010 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland
- 2010 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Workshop on Avoiding Tragedies of the Commons, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 2011 "The ecological rationality of patience", CompCog Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2011 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2012 "Similarity as an alternative to temporal discounting", Quantitative Psychology Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2012 "The cognitive building blocks of cooperation", NIH OppNet Workshop on Improving Animal Models of Human Behavioral and Social Processes, Rockville, Maryland
- 2012 "Cognition and the evolution of cooperation", Social Structure Summer School, University of Goettingen, Germany
- 2013 "The bounded rationality of self-control", Department of Psychology, Kansas State University
- 2015 "The cognition and evolution of patience", Beta Beta Beta Honor Society, Nebraska Wesleyan University
- 2015 "Changing minds: the science of belief'', UNL SciComm 2015: A Symposium for Effective Science Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2015 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Workshop on The Costs and Benefits of Information Acquisition and Use in Social Interactions, Arolla, Switzerland
- 2016 "The bounded rationality of reciprocity", Program in Behavior, Economics, and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2017 "The bounded rationality of cooperation", Symposium on The Neural Basis of Social Evaluation, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany
- 2017 "The domain specificity of intertemporal choice in pinyon jays", Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
- 2017 "Mesotocin as a hormonal mechanism of social behavior in pinyon jays", Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
- 2018 "The role of opportunity costs in intertemporal choice", Workshop on Economic Behavior of Non-Human Primates, Florence, Italy
- 2019 "The science of belief and decision making", National Environmental Health Association Region IV conference, Omaha, NE
- 2020 "They affect us, we affect them: reciprocal relations between dog and human psychology", Department of Biomedical Sciences and Program in Neuroscience, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- 2020 "They affect us, we affect them: reciprocal relations between dog and human psychology", Anthrozoology Program, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA [via Zoom]
Conference Presentations
- 2000 "The economics of food sharing: when should blue jays cooperate?", Animal Social Complexity and Intelligence Conference, Chicago, Ill. (poster)
- 2002 "The behavioral ecology of cooperation and food sharing", Psychology Department, Harvard University
- 2002 "Harassment increases food sharing: a selfish explanation for generosity in primates", Animal Behaviour Society, Bloomington, Indiana
- 2002 "Cooperation when generosity is cheap: an alternative paradigm to the Prisoner's Dilemma", International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Montreal, Quebec
- 2003 "The selfish nature of generosity: harassment and food sharing in primates", 4. Göttinger Freilandtage: Cooperation in Primates and Human , Göttingen, Germany
- 2004 "Quantity discrimination in two callitrichid primate species", Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida
- 2004 "Selfish minds: psychological constraints on the evolution of cooperation", Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Group, Department of Psychology, Havard University
- 2004 "The ecology and evolution of patience in two New World primates", Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior, Boston (poster)
- 2004 "The selfish nature of generosity: harassment and food sharing in primates", International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Jyväskylä, Finland
- 2004 "Selfish minds: psychological constraints on the evolution of cooperation", Boston Behavior Club
- 2005 "The value of space and time in two New World monkeys", Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida
- 2007 "Evolving the psychological mechanisms for cooperation", Social Organization and Cognitive Tools Conference, Konrad Lorenz Research Station, Grünau, Austria
- 2007 "The evolutionary origins of human patience", Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida
- 2007 "Intertemporal choice in apes and humans", Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making Conference, Warsaw, Poland
- 2007 "Similarity in intertemporal choice: an outcome and process approach", Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Long Beach, California (poster)
- 2007 "The evolutionary origins of human patience", 6. Göttinger Freilandtage: Primate Behavior and Human Universals , Göttingen, Germany
- 2008 "The ecological rationality of patience and risk sensitivity", International Primatological Society Congress , Edinburgh, Scotland
- 2008 "The value of waiting and receiving in intertemporal choice", Society for Judgment and Decision Making Meeting , Chicago, Illinois
- 2008 "The ecological rationality of risk sensitivity in chimpanzees and bonobos", Comparative Cognition and Learning Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
- 2009 "Expectation and delayed gratification in bonobos", Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida
- 2009 "Reflections of the social environment in the primate mind?", The Primate Mind Workshop, Erice, Sicily
- 2009 "Models of similarity in intertemporal choice", Cognitive Science Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2009 "Expectation and delayed gratification in bonobos", International Ethological Congress, Rennes, France
- 2010 "Memory interference constrains the evolution of cooperation", European Human Behavior and Evolution Conference, Wroclaw, Poland
- 2010 "Spatial discounting in fish: the convergence of space, time, and number", European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Ferrara, Italy
- 2010 "Models of similarity in intertemporal choice", German Society for Cognitive Science, Potsdam, Germany
- 2010 "The past predicts the future: patterns of social contact in chimpanzees", Comparative Cognition Society fall meeting, St. Louis, Missouri
- 2010 "Memory interference constrains the emergence of cooperation", Psychonomics Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri
- 2011 "Spatial discounting of food and social rewards in guppies", Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida
- 2011 "Reproducible results in comparative cognition", Comparative Cognition Society fall meeting, Seattle, Washington
- 2011 "Alternatives to discounting for intertemporal choice", Psychonomics Society Meeting, Seattle, Washington
- 2012 "Memory for cooperative actions: the role of costly errors and context when remembering the past", Animal Behavior Society--Human Behavior and Evolution Society joint meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 2012 "Testing theories of intertemporal choice", Workshop on Testing Theories of Choice Behavior, Berlin, Germany
- 2012 "Memory for cooperative actions: the role of costly errors and context when remembering the past", Psychonomics Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 2013 "Wait, there's more: opportunity costs in intertemporal choices", Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida
- 2013 "The psychology of intertemporal choice: concepts and mechanisms", CompCog Workshop on Concepts and Methodologies in the Field of Intertemporal Choices, Vienna, Austria
- 2013 "Time, risk, and environmental decisions", Society for Judgment and Decision Making Meeting, Toronto, Canada
- 2013 "Heuristic and discounting models of intertemporal choice: A quantitative test", Psychonomics Society Meeting, Toronto, Canada
- 2014 "The domain specificity of self-control", Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida
- 2014 "The domain specificity of self-control: Caching and intertemporal choice in pinyon jays", Psychonomics Society Meeting, Long Beach, California
- 2014 "Similarity model accounts for magnitude and sign effects in intertemporal choice", Society for Judgment and Decision Making Meeting, Long Beach, California
- 2015 "Similarity judgments of time delay and reward amount in intertemporal choice", Psychonomics Society Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
- 2015 "The nature of decisions: the influence of natural and built environments on decision making", Johnson, E.L. & Stevens, J.R., Society for Judgment and Decision Making Meeting, Chicago, Illinois
- 2016 "Naturally nice and controlled: effects of exposure to nature on stress and decision making", Stevens, J.R., Society for Neuroeconomics Meeting, Berlin, Germany
- 2017 "Judging similarity in intertemporal choice with decision trees", Stevens, J.R. & Soh, L.-K. Oklahoma-Kansas Judgment and Decision Making Conference, Norman, Oklahoma
- 2017 "Social network structure can buffer costs of forgetting in the evolution of cooperation", Stevens, J.R., Woike, J.K., Schooler, L.J., Lindner, S., & Pachur, T. Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida
- 2017 "Mesotocin as a hormonal mechanism of social behavior in pinyon jays", Stevens, J.R. & Duque, J.F. European Brain and Behaviour Society, Bilbao, Spain
- 2017 "Order matters: Alphabetizing in-text citations biases citation decisions", Stevens, J.R. & Duque, J.F. Psychonomics Society Meeting, Vancouver, Canada
- 2017 "Complex social dynamics and cognition shape cooperation", Stevens, J.R., Göttinger Freilandtage: Social Complexity , Göttingen, Germany
- 2018 "Framing patience: how the representation of reward amounts and time delays shapes intertemporal choice", Society for Judgment and Decision Making Meeting , New Orleans, Louisiana
- 2019 "Social network structure buffers forgetting in cooperative games", Stevens, J.R., Woike, J., Schooler, L.J., Lindner, S., and Pachur, T., Fly Over State Scientists Integrating Evolution (FOSSIL) conference, Stillwater, Oklahoma
- 2019 "Dog and owner characteristics predict Canine Good Citizen performance and obedience", Stevens, J.R. & Bosworth, M., Canine Science Conference, Phoenix, Arizona
Grants and Fellowships
- 2000 Animal Behavior Society Student Research Grant, "Manipulative mutualism: the effects of harassment on food sharing" ($500)
- 2000 Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Professional Meeting Fellowship, University of Minnesota, "Manipulative mutualism: the effects of harassment on food sharing" ($225)
- 2000 Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, "Manipulative mutualism: the effects of harassment on food sharing" ($3000)
- 2000-2001 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation General Grant, "The effects of harassment on food sharing in primates" ($10,000)
- 2001 Alexander P. and Lydia Anderson Fellowship, University of Minnesota "The behavioral ecology of food sharing" ($5,970)
- 2002 Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Professional Meeting Fellowship, University of Minnesota, "Cooperation when generosity is cheap: alternatives to the Prisoner's Dilemma" ($600)
- 2002-2003 Doctoral Disseratation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, "The behavioral ecology of food sharing" ($14,000)
- 2003-2006 National Institutes of Health NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, "Psychological constraints on altruism and reciprocity" (F32-MH067408-01, $118,000)
- 2004 International Society for Behavioral Ecology Travel Award, "The selfish nature of generosity: harassment and food sharing in primates" ($750)
- 2007 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft International Conference and Lecture Trips, "Temporal discounting in humans and apes" (1200 euro or $1600)
- 2008 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft International Conference and Lecture Trips, "The ecological rationality of patience and risk sensitivity in Pan" (1300 euro or $2000)
- 2009 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst International Conference Trips "Reflections of the social environment in the primate mind?" (775 euro or $1100)
- 2010 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst International Conference Trips "Memory interference constrains the evolution of cooperation" (680 euro or $815)
- 2010-2011 Science of Virtue Grant, "The heuristics of virtue: integrating virtue ethics and the science of heuristics" Co-PI with E.T. Cokely, A. Feltz, J.N. Marewski, F. Artinger, N. Fleischhut, M. Keller, and G. Gigerenzer ($200,000)
- 2011-2015 National Science Foundation, "A quantitative analysis of heuristics and discounting models of intertemporal choice" Co-PI with Michel Regenwetter (SES-1062045, $528,916)
- 2011-2014 TransCoop Grant from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, "A quantitative analysis of heuristics and discounting models of intertemporal choice" PI with Michel Regenwetter (50,000 euro or $64,500)
- 2012-2013 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Planning Grant for the Pathway to Interdisciplinary Research Centers program, Co-PI with Leilani Arthurs ($9,989)
- 2012-2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Arts & Science Interdisciplinary Seed Grant, "Environmental decisions in an uncertain world", Co-PI with Leilani Arthurs ($6,579)
- 2013 European Science Foundation, CompCog Discussion Meeting, "Concepts and methodologies in the field of intertemporal choices", Co-PI with Friederike Range (8,000 euro or $10,460)
- 2013 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Faculty Seed Grant, "Developing an animal model of self-control", ($9,968)
- 2014-2015 Nebraska EPSCoR FIRST Award, "Hormonal mechanisms of cooperation", ($19,927)
- 2014-2015 National Science Foundation REU Supplement, "A quantitative analysis of heuristics and discounting models of intertemporal choice" Co-PI with Michel Regenwetter (SES-1062045, $6,000)
- 2015-2016 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Layman Award, "Hormonal influences on social bonding and cooperation", ($10,000)
- 2016 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Center for Brain, Biology & Behavior Seed Grant, "Stress as a mediator between exposure to nature and decision making", ($4,600)
- 2016 University of Nebraska Food for Health Collaboration Initiative Planning Grant , "Understanding the effect of exercise on future food intake: The role of behavioral, physiological, and neural mechanisms", Co-PI with Karsten Koehler (PI), Matthew Bice, Ronald Bulbulian, Jeffrey French, Christopher Gustafson, Maital Neta, Scott Stoltenberg ($20,000)
- 2017-2021 National Science Foundation, "Similarity as a process model of intertemporal choice", PI with Leen-Kiat Soh (SES-1658837, $655,373)
- 2017-2018 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Arts & Sciences International Research Collaboration Award, "Oxytocin as a hormonal mechanism of prosociality in dogs and wolves", ($9,964)
- 2017-2019 University of Nebraska Food for Health Collaboration Initiative Seed Grant , "Understanding the effect of exercise on future food intake: The role of behavioral, physiological, and neural mechanisms", Co-PI with Karsten Koehler (PI), Matthew Bice, Ronald Bulbulian, Jeffrey French, Christopher Gustafson, Maital Neta, Scott Stoltenberg ($150,000)
- 2018-2019 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Arts & Sciences Partnership Seed Funding Grant, "Predicting dog training success", ($9,958)
- 2019-2020 Great Plains IDeA-CTR Pilot Program, “Age-related differences in food choices and appetite regulation in the context of exercise”, co-PI with Julie Boron (PI), Karsten Koehler, and Cary Savage, ($73,250)
- 2019 Great Plains IDeA-CTR Vouchers for Core Facilities, “Exercise and temporal food choices” PI with Karsten Koehler ($4,400)
- 2020-2021 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Maude Hammond Fling Faculty Research Fellowship, “Assessing numerical discrimination in dogs”, PI with Mike Dodd ($10,000)
Teaching Experience
- Teaching assistant, General Biology, Biol 1009--Biology, University of Minnesota (1997, 1998)
- Teaching assistant, Introduction to Animal Behavior, EEB 3111/Biol 3411--Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior/Biology, University of Minnesota (1998, 1999, 2001)
- Teaching assistant, Behavioral Ecology, EEB 5325/7--Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota (1999, 2000, 2002)
- Teaching assistant, Evolution of Social Behavior, EEB 5321--Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota (2000)
- Web and classroom assistant, Applied Behavioral Analysis, Psy 4011--Psychology, University of Minnesota (2000)
- Teaching fellow, Evolution of Human Nature, Science B-29--Harvard University (2003)
- Discussion leader, Advances in Behavioral Economics--Harvard University (Fall 2005)
- Lecturer, Psychology of Economic Decision Making, Psych 1104--Harvard University (Spring 2006)
- Instructor, Evolution, Behavior, and Society, Psyc 270--University of Nebraska (2011-2016, 2018, 2020)
- Instructor, Psychology of Decision Making, Psyc 961--University of Nebraska (2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020)
- Instructor, Learning Processes, Psyc 461/861--University of Nebraska (2013-2017)
- Instructor, Perspectives in Psychology, Psyc 440/840--University of Nebraska (2013-2016, 2018-2020)
- Instructor, Animal Learning & Cognition, Psyc 461/861--University of Nebraska (2019)
Summer Schools and Graduate/Undergraduate Workshops
- 2007 "Evolutionary perspectives on decision making", International Max Planck Research School: LIFE Seminar Berlin, Germany
- 2008 "The evolution of ecological rationality", Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Berlin, Germany
- 2009-2011 "Darwinian decision making", Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Berlin, Germany
- 2013, 2015, 2016 "An introduction to using R", University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2016 "The psychology of decision making", College of Business Administration Honors Academy Workshop, UNL
Guest Lectures
- 1998 "A game theoretical approach to fighting and assessment", University of Minnesota--Evolution of Social Behavior: EEB 5321
- 1999 "Competition and fighting", University of Minnesota--Introduction to Animal Behavior: EEB 3111
- 1999-2000 "Foraging and territoriality", University of Minnesota--Behavioral Ecology: EEB 5325/7
- 2000 "Non-kin cooperation", University of Minnesota--Evolution of Social Behavior: EEB 5321
- 2000 "Cooperation, manipulation, and cognition", University of Minnesota--Evolution of Cognition: EEB 8980
- 2002 "Evolution of Sex", University of Minnesota--Behavioral Ecology: EEB 5327
- 2002 "Cognitive Ecology", University of Minnesota--Behavioral Ecology: EEB 5327
- 2002 "Careers in Animal Behavior", University of Minnesota--Biology Colloquium: Biol 1020
- 2003 "Cooperative minds: the evolutionary psychology of altruism", Harvard University--Intro. to Psychology: Psych 1
- 2003 "Games people play: human psychology and economics", Mount Ida College--Global Scientific Issues: NS 303
- 2005 "Cognitive constraints on reciprocity", Harvard University--Evolution and Social Behavior: Phil 252
- 2007 "Evolutionary perspectives on decision making", International Max Planck Research School--LIFE Seminar
- 2017-2018 "Animal intelligence", University of Nebraska-Lincoln--Life in the Universe: Astronomy 117
- 2018 "Animal cognition", Nebraska Wesleyan University---How Animals Think
- 2018-2019 "Introduction to dog cognition", Nebraska Wesleyan University---Dogs and People
- 2019 "Dog cognition", University of Nebraska-Lincoln--Introduction to Companion Animals: Animal Science 251
- 2019 "Using machine learning to study decision making", University of Nebraska-Lincoln---Introduction to Informatics: Computer Science and Computer Engineering 100
- 2020 "Canine-human interaction", University of Nebraska-Lincoln---Fundamentals of Animal Biology and Industry: Animal Science 100
Theses Advised
- Elizabeth Hallinan--"Temporal discounting in two New World primates, the cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) and the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)." (senior thesis, Department of Biology, Harvard University--2003-2004)
- Alexandra Rosati--"Context-dependent discounting in two New World primates, the cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) and the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)." (senior thesis, Department of Psychology, Harvard University--2004-2005) Winner of Hoopes Thesis Award, Psychology Faculty Thesis Award.
- Sarah Heilbronner--"The evolution of risk-sensitive preferences in nonhuman primates." (Department of Psychology, Harvard University--2005-2007) Winner of Psychology Faculty Thesis Award.
- Nelly Mühlhoff--"Spacial discounting of food and social partners in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)." (Diploma/Masters thesis, Humboldt-Universität--2009-2010)
- Jenny Volstorf--"The role of memory in cooperation." (PhD thesis, International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World--2008-2012)
- Tim Winke--"The role of costly errors in cooperative memory." (Bachelors thesis, Universität Bayreuth--2010-2011)
- Whitney Leichner--"Hormonal mechanisms of non-kin cooperation: A study of the effects of mesotocin on prosocial behavior in pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus).'' (honor's thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln---2014-2015)
- Molly Shane--"Nature's effect on stress and decision making." (honor’s thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln---2015-2016)
- Tyler Stading--"Naturally stressed: The effect of nature exposure on stress physiology and decision making." (honor’s thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln---2015-2016)
- Juan Duque--"Patterns of behavioral and physiological consistency in pinyon jays (Gymnorhinus cyancephalus)." (PhD thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln---2012-2019)
- Francine Goh--"Social influences on similarity judgments and intertemporal choice." (Master's thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln---2017-2019)
- Elise Thayer--"Effects of human-animal interactions on affect and cognition." (Master's thesis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln---2018-2020)
Outreach and Science Communication
- 2014 Volunteer for Eight-Legged Encounters outreach exhibit at Denver Museum of Nature and Science
- 2015 Stevens, A.N.P. & Stevens, J.R. Cool jobs: Getting in your head. Science News for Students
- 2015 Invited speaker for UNL SciComm 2015: A Symposium for Effective Science Communication
- 2015 Co-Leader "Science Literacy: Applied STEM Reasoning for the 21st Century and Beyond" project
- 2015 Volunteer judge for Morley Elementary Science Fair
- 2016 Organizer for Bird Brains station at BrainStorm event at Sunday with a Scientist at University of Nebraska State Museum
- 2018 Co-organizer for Animal Behavior event at Sunday with a Scientist at University of Nebraska State Museum
- 2018-2019 Organizer for Husker DogFest at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2019 Guest speaker at Edgerton Explorit Dog Science Camp
- 2019 Invited speaker for Science Café by University of Nebraska State Museum: "Pawsitive Psychology: Dog-Human Bonds"
- 2019 Facilitator of Girl Scout Troop 20606 Animal Helpers badge
Professional Service and Development
- 1999-2000 Student representative for departmental seminar committee, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- 1999-2000 Student representative for Mechanisms of Behavior faculty searches, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- 1999 Participant in TA Web Certification, TAWEB 103--Digital Media Center, Academic and Distributed Computing Services, Center for Teaching and Learning Services, University of Minnesota
- 2000 Co-author curriculum for Introduction to Animal Behavior Laboratory, EEB 3411--Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- 2000 Organizer of Biological Basis of Behavior Seminar, EEB 8360--Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- 2002 Participant in Preparing Future Faculty Retreat--Center for Teaching and Learning Services, University of Minnesota
- 2004 Workshop leader for Mind, Brain, and Behavior Senior Thesis Workshops, Harvard University
- 2077 Organizer for MPI Workshop on Inferences and Preferences in Humans and Other Animals, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- 2007 Co-organizer of Workshop on Lifespan Development of Heuristics and Evolutionary Perspectives, International Max Planck Research School: LIFE
- 2008-2011 Faculty for Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, Berlin, Germany
- 2010 Co-organizer (with Christian Agrillo) of symposium "Where, when, and how many? The representation of space, time and number in animals", European Conference of Behavioral Biology Ferrara, Italy
- 2010-2011 Associate researcher in Center for Integrative Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
- 2010-2017 Associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology
- 2010-2017 Editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Comparative Psychology
- 2011 Co-organizer (with Peter Hammerstein) of Ernst Strüngmann Forum on Evolving the Mechanisms of Decision Making Frankfurt, Germany
- 2011-2012 Participant in UNL's Research Development Fellows Program
- 2011 Participant in NESCent working group on How Does Cognition Evolve?
- 2012 Co-organizer (with Michel Regenwetter) of Workshop on Testing Theories of Choice Behavior, Berlin, Germany
- 2013 Co-organizer (with Friederike Range) of CompCog Workshop on Concepts and Methodologies in the Field of Intertemporal Choices, Vienna, Austria
- 2013-2014 Participant in NESCent working group on Evolution of Decision Making
- 2016 Organizer of Nebraska Symposium on Motivation on Impulsivity: How Time and Risk Influence Decision Making, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2018-present Program coordinator of Neuroscience and Behavior graduate program, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2019 Co-organizer of Nebraska Symposium on Motivation on Nature and Psychology: How the Natural World Shapes Our Cognition, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2018-present Department of Psychology Executive Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2019-present Information Technology Systems Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2019 Invited speaker for Nebraska Academy for Early Childhood Research Knowledge Seminar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 2020-present Editorial board of Animal Behavior and Cognition
Honors and Awards
- 1993-1996 Dean's Academic Honor List (Baylor University)
- 1993 Top 100 Freshmen (Baylor University)
- 1995-1996 Folmar Undergraduate Scholarship in Biology ($1000--Baylor University)
- 1995 Who's Who Among American College Students (Baylor University)
- 1996 Outstanding Senior Thesis in Environmental Studies (Baylor University)
- 1996 Outstanding Senior in Biology, (Baylor University)
- 1996 Bob Gardner Memorial Research Grant in Biology ($500--Baylor University)
- 1996 Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society (Baylor University)
- 1997 School of Biological Sciences Research Assistantship Award (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- 2001 College of Biological Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (University of Minnesota)
- 2003 Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Harvard University).
- 2016 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- 2017 UNL Parents Association Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- 2020 Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professorship (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Software Development
- Contributor to R package
prereg
, which provides R Markdown templates that facilitate authoring preregistrations of scientific studies in PDF format.
Professional Organizations
- Animal Behavior Society
- Comparative Cognition Society
- International Society for Behavioral Ecology
- Psychonomic Society
- Society for Judgment and Decision Making
Ad-hoc Referee
- Animal Behaviour
- Animal Cognition
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Behavioral Ecology
- Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
- Behaviour
- Behavioural Processes
- Biology Letters
- Buffett Early Childhood Institute
- Cognition
- Cognitive Science Society Meeting
- Current Biology
- Current Directions in Psychological Science
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Etología
- Evolutionary Psychology
- Institute for Advanced Study Berlin
- iScience
- Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
- Journal of Comparative Psychology
- Journal of Economic Psychology
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Konrad Lorenz Institute
- L'Oreal Foundation
- Leakey Foundation
- Learning & Behavior
- National Science Foundation
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Naturwissenschaften
- Personality and Social Psychology Review
- PLoS--Biology
- PLoS ONE
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Series B
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Review of General Psychology
- Science
- Science Advances
- Scientific Reports
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Vienna Science and Technology Fund
- Wellcome Trust
- Stevens, J.R. (2013). The bounds of rationality and cognitive building blocks. Behavioral Ecology, 24, 13-14.