Dogs

Jeffrey Stevens heads the Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Laboratory in the Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work uses biological and psychological approaches to understand dog behavior to improve how owners and handlers train, work with, and live with dogs. He holds a Ph.D. ecology, evolution and behavior from the University of Minnesota in 2002. He held a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Psychology Department at Harvard University and was a research scientist in the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. In one recent study, he examined what characteristics of dogs and owners predict dog obedience training success. Another revealed how well owners can predict their dogs impulsivity levels.