Preprints

• Höchsmann, C., Becksford, S.E., French, J.A., Boron, J.B., Stevens, J.R., & Koehler, K. (2022). Biological and behavioral predictors of compensatory energy intake after exercise. Research Square.
  
  
  
  
  
• ManyDogs Project, Espinosa, J., Bray, E., Buchsbaum, D., Byosiere, S.-E., Byrne, M., Freeman, M. S., Gnanadesikan, G., Guran, C.-N. A., Horschler, D., Huber, L., Johnston, A., MacLean, E., Pelgrim, M. H., Santos, L., Silver, Z. A., Stevens, J. R., Völter, C., & Zipperling, L. (2021). ManyDogs 1: A multi-lab replication study of dogs’ pointing comprehension. Stage 1 registered report at Animal Behavior & Cognition.
  
  
  
  
• Stevens, J.R., Cully, T., & Goh, F.W. (2021). Framing attributes in similarity judgments and intertemporal choices. PsyArXiv.
  
  
  
  
  
• Stevens, J.R., Mathias, M., Herridge, M., Hughes-Duvall, K., Wolff, L. M., & Yohe, M. (2022). Do owners know how impulsive their dogs are? PsyArXiv.
  
  
  
  
  

Forthcoming

• Goh, F.W., Jungck, A.C., & Stevens, J.R. (forthcoming). Pro tip: Screen-based payment methods increase negative feelings in consumers but do not increase tip sizes. European Journal of Behavioral Sciences.
  
  
  
  
  
• Marvin, S., Sorenson, K., & Stevens, J.R. (forthcoming). Bringing human-animal interaction to sport: Potential impacts on athletic performance. European Journal of Sport Science.
  
  
  
  

2022

• Arce, W. & Stevens, J.R. (2022). A precise dispenser design for canine cognition research. Journal of Open Hardware, 6(1) 2.
  
  
  
  
• Bryer, M. A. H., Koopman, S. E., Cantlon, J. F., Piantadosi, S. T., MacLean, E. L., Baker, J. M., Beran, M. J., Jones, S. M., Jordan, K. E., Mahamane, S., Nieder, A., Perdue, B. M., Range, F., Stevens, J. R., Tomonaga, M., Ujfalussy, D. J., & Vonk, J. (2022). The evolution of quantitative sensitivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1844), 20200529.
  
• Miller, R., Lambert, M. L., Frohnwieser, A., Brecht, K. F., Bugnyar, T., Crampton, I., Garcia-Pelegrin, E., Gould, K., Greggor, A. L., Izawa, E.-I., Kelly, D. M., Li, Z., Luo, Y., Luong, L. B., Massen, J. J. M., Neider, A., Reber, S. A., Schiestl, M., Seguchi, A., Stevens, J.R., Taylor, A.H., Wang, L., Wolff, L.M., Zhang, Y., Clayton, N. S. (2022). A multi-lab collaboration on neophobia in corvids. Current Biology, 32(1), 74-85.e4.
  
  
  
  
  

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.
  
  
  
  
• Schutte, A., Torquati, J., & Stevens, J.R. (2021). Nature and Psychology: Biological, Cognitive, Developmental, and Social Pathways to Well-Being. New York: Springer.
• Schutte, A., Torquati, J., & Stevens, J.R. (2021). 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. (2021). Improving measurements of similarity judgments with machine-learning algorithms. Journal of Computational Social Science, 4(2), 613-629.
  
  
  
  
• Stevens, J. R., (2021). excluder: An R package that checks for exclusion criteria in online data. Journal of Open Source Software, 6(67), 3893.
  
  
  
  
• Stevens, J.R., Wolff, L.M., Bosworth, M., & Morstad, J. (2021). Dog and owner characteristics predict training success. Animal Cognition, 24(2) 219-230.
  
  
  
  
  
• Thayer, E.R. & Stevens, J.R. (2021). Effects of human-animal interactions on affect and cognition. Human-Animal Interaction Bulletin, 10(2) 73-98.
  
  
  
  
  

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.