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.
Stevens, J.R. , Bosworth, M., Wolff, L.M., & Morstad, J. (2020).
Dog and owner characteristics predict obedience and impulsivity. PsyArXiv.
Stevens, J.R. , Saltzman, A., Rasumussen, T., & Soh, L.-K. (2020).
Improving measurements of similarity judgments with machine-learning algorithms. PsyArXiv.
Thayer, E.R. & Stevens, J.R. (2020).
Effects of human-animal interactions on affect and cognition. PsyArXiv.
In Press
Addessi, E., Tierno, V., Focaroli, V., Rossi, F., Gastaldi, S., De Petrillo, F., Paglieri, F., & Stevens, J.R. (in press).
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 .
Goh, F. & Stevens, J.R. (in press).
Attribute-based choice.
In R. Viale (Ed.),
Handbook on bounded rationality .
London: Routledge.
2020
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
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 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
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.
