Publications
In press
Espinosa, J., Cavalli, C., Bentosela, M., Bhadra, A., & Stevens, J. R. (in press). Beyond WEIRD humans and STRANGE dogs: Using big team science to improve generalizability and reproducibility in comparative psychology. Current Directions in Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/09637214261450055
PDF • Preprint • News Release
- This article describes how big team science projects like the ManyDogs Project can help address a lack of representativeness and potential generalizability concerns associated with conducting canine science research.
2024
ManyDogs Project, Espinosa, J., Hare, E., Alberghina, D., Valverde, B. M. P., & Stevens, J. R. (2024). Data from ManyDogs 1. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12(1). doi:10.5334/jopd.109
PDF • Preprint • Data and code
- This article publishes all of the data for the ManyDogs 1 project, along with a codebook and a description of how the data were collected.
2023
ManyDogs Project, Alberghina, D., Bray, E., Buchsbaum, D., Byosiere, S.-E., Espinosa, J., Gnanadesikan, G., Guran, C.-N.A., Hare, E., Horschler, D., Huber, L., Kuhlmeier, V.A., MacLean, E., Pelgrim, M.H., Perez, B., Ravid-Schurr, D., Rothkoff, L., Sexton, C., Silver, Z., & Stevens, J.R. (2023). ManyDogs Project: A big team science approach to investigating canine behavior and cognition. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 18, 59-77. doi:10.3819/CCBR.2023.180004
- This article introduces the ManyDogs Project by discussing the importance of studying canine behavioral science, situating ManyDogs among other examples of large-scale canine science, and describing the core aims of the ManyDogs Project.
ManyDogs Project, Espinosa, J., Stevens, J.R., Alberghina, D., Alway, H.E.E., Barela, J.D., Bogese, M., Bray, E.E., Buchsbaum, D. Byosiere, S.-E., Byrne, M., Cavalli, C. M., Chaudoir, L. M., Collins-Pisano, C., DeBoer, H.J., Douglas L.E.L.C., Dror, S., Dzik, M.V., Ferguson, B., Fisher, L., Fitzpatrick, H.C., Freeman, M.S., Frinton, S.N., Glover, M.K., Gnanadesikan, G.E., Goacher, J.E.P., Golańska, M., Guran, C.-N.A., Hare, E., Hare, B. Hickey, M., Horschler, D.J., Huber, L., Jim, H.-L., Johnston, A.M., Kaminski, J. Kelly, D.M., Kuhlmeier, V.A., Lassiter, L., Lazarowski, L., Leighton-Birch, J., MacLean, E.L., Maliszewska, K., Marra, V., Montgomery, L.I., Murray, M.S., Nelson, E.K., Ostojić, L., Palermo, S.G., Parks Russell, A.E., Pelgrim, M.H., Pellowe, S.D., Reinholz, A., Rial, L.A., Richards, E.M., Ross, M.A., Rothkoff, L.G., Salomons, H., Sanger, J.K., Santos, L., Shirle, A.R., Shearer, S.J., Silver, Z.A., Silverman, J.M., Sommese, A., Srdoc, T., St. John-Mosse, H., Vega, A.C., Vékony, K., Völter, C.J., Walsh C.J., Worth, Y.A., Zipperling, L.M.I., Żołędziewska, B., & Zylberfuden, S.G. (2023). ManyDogs 1: A multi-lab replication study of dogs’ pointing comprehension. Animal Behavior & Cognition, 10(3), 232-286. doi:10.26451/abc.10.03.03.2023
PDF • Preprint • Stage 1 registred report • Data and code
- This article describes ManyDogs 1, the first empirical study to come out of the ManyDogs Project that evaluates domestic dogs’ understanding of a common human gesture, the point.
Presentations
Talks and panels
Stevens, J.R., Espinosa, J., Cavalli, C., ManyDogs Project. (2026). Demographic factors in dog research. Canine Science Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
ManyDogs Project & Espinosa, J. (2023). Exploring variability in dogs’ responses to human pointing. Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida, USA.
Sommese, A. (2023). ManyDogs 1: A multi-lab replication study of dogs’ pointing comprehension. Canine Science Forum, Budapest, Hungary.
Espinosa, J. (2022). Big team science in comparative cognition. Comparative Cognition Conference, Melbourne, Florida, USA.
ManyDogs Project, Espinosa, J., Byosiere, S.-E., Pelgrim M. (2021). ManyDogs Project. Canine Science Forum, virtual meeting.
Stevens, J.R. (2021). The ManyDogs Project: A big team science approach to canine cognition, International Society for Anthrozoology, virtual meeting.