Curriculum Vitae David W. Stephens

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1 Curriculum Vitae David W. Stephens October 2008 Address: Phone: E mail: Department of Ecology Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota 1987 Upper Buford Circle St. Paul, MN (Office) dws@umn.edu Personal Data Date of Birth: 23 June 1955 Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah Marital Status: Divorced, Two children Citizenship: USA Summary of Education Undergraduate Education University of Utah Degrees Obtained: Bachelor of Science (Biology) Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) Graduate Education The Queen's College, Oxford University. Degree obtained: Doctor of Philosophy (D. Phil.). Doctoral Supervisor: Professor John Krebs, FRS. (Now Lord Krebs) D. W. Stephens, page 1

2 Professional Activities Present Position Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota Previous Positions Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota Associate Professor of Biological Sciences & Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Visiting Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst NSF Fellow in Environmental Biology and Research Assistant Professor of Biology at the University of Utah NATO Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Zoology and Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia Smithsonian Visiting Scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland. Grants and Awards (external) 1. Receiver psychology and the value of information. NSF $426,297; Animal impulsivity: discounting or ecological rationality. NSF $340,000, SGER: The evolutionary genetics of avian choice behavior, NSF, $34,479, Discounting, reciprocity and cooperation. NIMH, $432, International Conference on Foraging Behavior NSF, $4, Cooperation, altruism and self control. NSF, $216, Adaptation/Mechanism Interface in Behavioral Biology: NSF/Nebraska EPSCoR Training Grant Support for the Nebraska Behavioral Biology Group to 1996, $2,246,623 (jointly with A. C. Kamil, D. W. Leger, J. A. French, and T. E. Burk). 8. NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award: 1990 to Total award $168,813 (direct costs). 9. NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Biology: University of Utah, Total award $52,800 for two years. 10. NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of British Columbia. Total award $20,000 for one year. D. W. Stephens, page 2

3 Invited Papers and Talks (selected invitations, since 2002) Plenary speaker, Winter ASAB meeting, London Zoologisches Institut, University of Bern, Switzerland, 2004, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 2004; Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 2004; Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago 2006; PRIMES Distinguished Lecturer, Colorado State University 2006; Institute of Zoology, Groningen University, The Netherlands 2006; Hunter College, Behavioral Economics Series, 2007; Animal Behavior Society, Symposium on Cognitive Ecology, Burlington, VT, 2007; International Ethological Congress, Symposium on Uncertainty in Animal Cognition, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Plenary speaker, Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, Chicago 2008; Plenary speaker, Workshop of Animal Decision making, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus Ohio, Workshop Speaker, Society for Neuroeconomics, Park City Utah, Plenary speaker, Workshop on social information, Montreal, Quebec Plenary speaker (B.F. Skinner Lecturer) Association for Behavior Analysis International, Phoenix AZ, Departmental Speaker, University of California Davis, Other Professional Activities: Reviewer for The American Naturalist, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Chapman & Hall, Ecology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, National Science Foundation, NSERC (Canada), Nature, Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Science, and University of Chicago Press, and others. Editorial Board Member, Behavioral Ecology Editorial Board Member, Animal Behaviour, Organized International Conference on Foraging Behavior (21 24 July 1998, Santa Cruz, CA) Ad hoc Member NIH Basic Bio behavioral Process Study Group (BBBP 1), fall Member, NSF Animal Behavior Panel Spring 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2005 Editor, Animal Behaviour 2006 present Section Editor & Advisory Board member, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, 2007 present D. W. Stephens, page 3

4 Publications Books 1. Stephens, D. W. and J. R. Krebs Foraging theory. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ. xiv pages. 2. Stephens, D. W., J. S. Brown and R. C. Ydenberg (eds.) Foraging: behavior and ecology. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. xvi pages Papers 3. Stephens, D. W The logic of risk sensitive foraging preferences. Animal Behaviour 29: Stephens, D. W. and E. L. Charnov Optimal foraging: some simple stochastic models. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 10: Lessells, C. M. and D. W. Stephens Central place foraging: single prey loaders again. Animal Behaviour 31: Krebs, J. R., D. W. Stephens and W. J. Sutherland Perspectives in foraging theory. In: A. H. Brush, and G. A. Clark Jr. (eds.), Perspectives in Ornithology, Cambridge University Press, New York. pp Stephens, D. W How important are partial preferences? Animal Behaviour 33: Stephens, D. W., J. F. Lynch, A. E. Sorensen and C. Gordon Preference and profitability: theory and experiment. The American Naturalist 127: Stephens, D. W. and S. R. Paton How constant is the constant of risk aversion? Animal Behaviour 35: Stephens, D. W On economically tracking a variable environment. Theoretical Population Biology 32: Shettleworth, S. J., J. R. Krebs, D. W. Stephens and J. Gibbon Tracking a fluctuating environment: a study of sampling. Animal Behaviour 36: Charnov, E. L. and D. W. Stephens On evolution of host selection by solitary parasitoids. The American Naturalist 132: D. W. Stephens, page 4

5 13. Stephens, D. W Variance and the value of information. The American Naturalist 134: Stephens, D. W Risk and uncertainty in behavioral ecology. In: E. Cashdan (ed.) Risk and uncertainty in tribal and peasant economies. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. pp Stephens, D. W Foraging theory: up, down & sideways. Studies in Avian Biology 13: Stephens, D. W Change, regularity and value in the evolution of animal learning. Behavioral Ecology 2: Stephens, D. W Learning and behavioral ecology: incomplete information and environmental predictability. In: D. Papaj and A. Lewis, (eds.) Insect Learning: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives. Chapman and Hall, New York. pp Stephens, D. W. and S. R. Dunbar Dimensional analysis in behavioral ecology. Behavioral Ecology 4: Kamil, A. C., R. L. Misthal and D. W. Stephens Failure of simple optimal foraging models to predict residence time when patch quality is uncertain. Behavioral Ecology 4: Stephens, D. W Putting game theory in its place. A review of An introduction to game theoretic modeling by Michael Mesterton Gibbons. Behavioral Ecology 5: Stephens, D. W The scale of nature: fitted parameters and dimensional correctness. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17: (Invited commentary on Mathematical Principles of Reinforcement by P. R. Killeen). 22. Stephens, D. W Foraging strategies. In: Nierenberg, W. A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology Vol. 2, pp Academic Press, San Diego. 23. Beachly, W. M., D. W. Stephens and K. B. Toyer On the economics of sitand wait foraging: site selection and assessment. Behavioral Ecology 6: Clements, K. C., and D. W. Stephens Testing models of non kin cooperation: mutualism and the Prisoner's Dilemma. Animal Behaviour 50: D. W. Stephens, page 5

6 25. Stephens, D. W., K. Nishimura and K. B. Toyer Error and discounting in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Journal of Theoretical Biology 176: Stephens, D. W On the relationship between the feedback control of digestion and the temporal pattern of food intake. Biological Bulletin 191: Benson, K. and D. W. Stephens Interruptions, Tradeoffs, and temporal discounting. American Zoologist. 36: Stephens, D. W., J. P. Anderson and K. Benson On the spurious occurrence of tit for tat in pairs of predator approaching fish. Animal Behaviour 53: Anderson, J. P., D. W. Stephens and S. R. Dunbar Saltatory search: a theoretical analysis. Behavioral Ecology. 8: Stephens, D. W. and J. P. Anderson Reply to Roberts: Cooperation is an outcome, not a mechanism. Animal Behaviour 53: Nishimura, K. and D. W. Stephens Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma: Pay off Variance. Journal of theoretical Biology 188: Stephens, D. W. and K. C. Clements Game theory and learning. In: Dugatkin, L. A. and H. K. Reeve (eds.) Game Theory and Animal Behavior, Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp Stephens, D. W Review of Individual behavior and community dynamics by John Fryxell and Per Lundberg. Quarterly Review of Biology 74: Stephens, D. W Cumulative benefit games: achieving cooperation when players discount the future. Journal of Theoretical Biology 205: Stephens, D. W. and J. R. Stevens 2001 A simple spatially explicit ideal free distribution: a model and an experiment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 49: Stephens, D. W. and D. Anderson 2001 The adaptive value of preference for immediacy: when short sighted rules have far sighted consequences. Behavioral Ecology 12: Stevens, J. R. and D. W. Stephens 2002 Harassment as an immediate influence on food sharing. Behavioral Ecology 13: D. W. Stephens, page 6

7 38. Stephens, D. W Discrimination, discounting and impulsivity: a role for an informational constraint. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B. 357: Stephens, D. W., C. M. McLinn and J. R. Stevens Discounting and reciprocity in an Iterated Prisoner s Dilemma. Science 298: Ruetz, C. R. and D. W. Stephens A behavioral model of stream drift: site selection under differential predation risks. Oikos 102: Stephens, D. W. and C. M. McLinn 2003 Choice and context: testing a simple short term choice rule. Animal Behaviour 66: Stevens, J. R. and D. W. Stephens 2004 The economic basis of cooperation: trade offs between selfishness and generosity. Behavioral Ecology 15: Fernandez Juricic, E, B. Kerr, P. A. Bednekoff and D. W. Stephens When are two heads better than one? Visual perception and information transfer affect the value of vigilance coordination in foraging groups. Behavioral Ecology 15: Stephens, D. W., B. Kerr and Fernandez Juricic, E Impulsiveness without discounting: the ecological rationality hypothesis. Proc. Roy. Soc. (B) 271: Dall, S. R. X., L A. Giraldeau, O. Olsson, J. M. McNamara and D. W. Stephens Information and its use in evolutionary ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: Stephens, D. W., C. M. McLinn & J. R. Stevens Effects of temporal clumping and payoff accumulation on impulsiveness and cooperation. Behavioural Processes 71: McLinn, C. M, and D. W. Stephens What makes information valuable: signal reliability and environmental uncertainty? Animal Behaviour 71: Stephens, D. W Models of information use. In: Stephens, D. W., J. S. Brown & R. C. Ydenberg (eds.) Foraging: behavior and ecology. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. pp Ydenberg, R. C., D. W. Stephens and Joel S. Brown Foraging: an overview. In: Stephens, D. W., J. S. Brown & R. C. Ydenberg (eds.) Foraging: behavior and ecology. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. pp D. W. Stephens, page 7

8 50. Stevens, J.R. & Stephens, D.W Patience. Current Biology 18:R Stephens, D. W. & A. S. Dunlap Foraging. In: Byrne, J. (ed.) Learning and Memory: a comprehensive reference. Elsevier Ltd: Oxford. 52. Henly, S., A. Ostdiek, E. Blackwell, S. Knutie, A. S. Dunlap & D. W. Stephens Impulsivity, discounting and interruptions: an experimental test of discounting by interruptions. Behavioral Ecology 19: Stephens, D. W Optimal foraging theory. In: Jorgensen, S. E. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Ecology vol 3, pp , Elsevier B. V: Amsterdam 54. Stevens, J.R. & Stephens, D.W. (in press). The adaptive nature of impulsivity. In: Impulsivity: Theory, Science, and Neuroscience of Discounting (Madden GJ, & Bickel WK, eds). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 55. Stephens, D. W. (in press) Decision ecology: foraging and the ecology of animal decision making. Cognitive and affective behavioral neuroscience (CABN) 56. Stephens, D. W. and A. S. Dunlap (in press) Why do animals make better choices in patch leaving problems? Behavioral processes. D. W. Stephens, page 8