David W. Stephens - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 
Area:
behavioral ecology
Website:
http://nash.cbs.umn.edu/lab/

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Year Citation  Score
2018 Stephens DW, Heinen VK. Modeling nonhuman conventions: the behavioral ecology of arbitrary action Behavioral Ecology. 29: 598-608. DOI: 10.1093/BEHECO/ARY011  0.347
2017 Polnaszek TJ, Rubi TL, Stephens DW. When it's good to signal badness: using objective measures of discriminability to test the value of being distinctive Animal Behaviour. 129: 113-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.05.009  0.386
2017 Marcus M, Burnham TC, Stephens DW, Dunlap AS. Experimental evolution of color preference for oviposition in Drosophila melanogaster Journal of Bioeconomics. 20: 125-140. DOI: 10.1007/S10818-017-9261-Z  0.722
2016 Rubi TL, Stephens DW. Should receivers follow multiple signal components? An economic perspective Behavioral Ecology. 27: 36-44. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arv121  0.37
2016 Dunlap AS, Stephens DW. Reliability, uncertainty, and costs in the evolution of animal learning Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 12: 73-79. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cobeha.2016.09.010  0.719
2016 Heinen VK, Stephens DW. Blue jays, Cyanocitta cristata, devalue social information in uncertain environments Animal Behaviour. 112: 53-62. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.11.015  0.338
2016 Rubi TL, Stephens DW. Does multimodality per se improve receiver performance? An explicit comparison of multimodal versus unimodal complex signals in a learned signal following task Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 1-8. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2061-y  0.345
2015 Burnham TC, Dunlap A, Stephens DW. Experimental Evolution and Economics Sage Open. 5: 215824401561252. DOI: 10.1177/2158244015612524  0.704
2014 Dunlap AS, Stephens DW. Experimental evolution of prepared learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111: 11750-5. PMID 25071167 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1404176111  0.714
2014 Polnaszek TJ, Stephens DW. Why not lie? Costs enforce honesty in an experimental signalling game. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 281: 20132457. PMID 24225460 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2457  0.355
2014 Polnaszek TJ, Stephens DW. Receiver tolerance for imperfect signal reliability: Results from experimental signalling games Animal Behaviour. 94: 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.05.011  0.345
2013 Wikenheiser AM, Stephens DW, Redish AD. Subjective costs drive overly patient foraging strategies in rats on an intertemporal foraging task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 8308-13. PMID 23630289 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1220738110  0.383
2012 Dunlap AS, Stephens DW. Tracking a changing environment: optimal sampling, adaptive memory and overnight effects. Behavioural Processes. 89: 86-94. PMID 22024660 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2011.10.005  0.715
2011 Wein JM, Stephens DW. Caching economics: Jays cache more when handling times are short and habitats are poor Animal Behaviour. 82: 579e585. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.06.020  0.384
2011 Stephens DW, Dunlap AS. Patch exploitation as choice: Symmetric choice in an asymmetric situation? Animal Behaviour. 81: 683-689. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2010.12.007  0.735
2010 McLinn CM, Stephens DW. An experimental analysis of receiver economics: Cost, reliability and uncertainty interact to determine a signal's value Oikos. 119: 254-263. DOI: 10.1111/J.1600-0706.2009.17756.X  0.756
2009 Stephens DW, Dunlap AS. Why do animals make better choices in patch-leaving problems? Behavioural Processes. 80: 252-60. PMID 20522316 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2008.11.014  0.737
2009 Dunlap AS, Stephens DW. Components of change in the evolution of learning and unlearned preference. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 276: 3201-8. PMID 19535373 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2009.0602  0.717
2008 Stevens JR, Stephens DW. Patience. Current Biology : Cb. 18: R11-2. PMID 18177703 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.021  0.349
2008 Henly SE, Ostdiek A, Blackwell E, Knutie S, Dunlap AS, Stephens DW. The discounting-by-interruptions hypothesis: Model and experiment Behavioral Ecology. 19: 154-162. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/Arm110  0.749
2006 Stephens DW, McLinn CM, Stevens JR. Effects of temporal clumping and payoff accumulation on impulsiveness and cooperation. Behavioural Processes. 71: 29-40. PMID 16226849 DOI: 10.1016/J.Beproc.2005.09.003  0.748
2006 McLinn CM, Stephens DW. What makes information valuable: signal reliability and environmental uncertainty Animal Behaviour. 71: 1119-1129. DOI: 10.1016/J.Anbehav.2005.09.006  0.745
2005 Dall SR, Giraldeau LA, Olsson O, McNamara JM, Stephens DW. Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 20: 187-93. PMID 16701367 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2005.01.010  0.321
2004 Stephens DW, Kerr B, Fernández-Juricic E. Impulsiveness without discounting: the ecological rationality hypothesis. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 271: 2459-65. PMID 15590596 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2004.2871  0.427
2004 Stevens JR, Stephens DW. The economic basis of cooperation: Tradeoffs between selfishness and generosity Behavioral Ecology. 15: 255-261. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh006  0.571
2003 Ruetz CR, Stephens DW. Site selection under differential predation risks by drifting prey in streams Oikos. 102: 85-94. DOI: 10.1034/J.1600-0706.2003.12242.X  0.301
2003 Stephens DW, McLinn CM. Choice and context: Testing a simple short-term choice rule Animal Behaviour. 66: 59-70. DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.2003.2177  0.773
2002 Stephens DW. Discrimination, discounting and impulsivity: a role for an informational constraint. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 357: 1527-37. PMID 12495510 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1062  0.448
2002 Stephens DW, McLinn CM, Stevens JR. Discounting and reciprocity in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Science (New York, N.Y.). 298: 2216-8. PMID 12481142 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1078498  0.752
2002 Stevens JR, Stephens DW. Food sharing: A model of manipulation by harassment Behavioral Ecology. 13: 393-400. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/13.3.393  0.534
2001 Stephens DW, Anderson D. The adaptive value of preference for immediacy: When shortsighted rules have farsighted consequences Behavioral Ecology. 12: 330-339. DOI: 10.1093/Beheco/12.3.330  0.387
2001 Stephens DW, Stevens JR. A simple spatially explicit ideal-free distribution: A model and an experiment Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 49: 220-234. DOI: 10.1007/s002650000276  0.515
2000 Stephens DW. Cumulative benefit games: achieving cooperation when players discount the future. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 205: 1-16. PMID 10860696 DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.2000.2041  0.389
1997 Nishimura K, Stephens DW. Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma: pay-off variance. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 188: 1-10. PMID 9299305 DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1997.0439  0.308
1997 Stephens DW, Anderson JP. Reply to Roberts: cooperation is an outcome, not a mechanism Animal Behaviour. 53: 1363-4. PMID 9236033 DOI: 10.1006/Anbe.1996.0379  0.342
1997 Stephens DW, Anderson JP, Benson KE. On the spurious occurrence of Tit for Tat in pairs of predator-approaching fish Animal Behaviour. 53: 113-131. DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0283  0.326
1996 Stephens DW. On the relationship between the feedback control of digestion and the temporal pattern of food intake. The Biological Bulletin. 191: 85-91. PMID 8776844 DOI: 10.2307/1543067  0.366
1996 Benson KE, Stephens DW. Interruptions, tradeoffs, and temporal discounting American Zoologist. 36: 506-517. DOI: 10.1093/Icb/36.4.506  0.333
1995 Stephens DW, Nishimura K, Toyer KB. Error and Discounting in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Journal of Theoretical Biology. 176: 457-469. DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1995.0213  0.314
1995 CLEMENTS KC, STEPHENS DW. Testing models of non-kin cooperation: mutualism and the Prisoner's Dilemma Animal Behaviour. 50: 527-535. DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1995.0267  0.345
1991 Stephens DW. Chnage, regularity, and value in the evolution of animal learning Behavioral Ecology. 2: 77-89. DOI: 10.1093/beheco/2.1.77  0.328
1989 Stephens DW. Variance and the value of information American Naturalist. 134: 128-140. DOI: 10.1086/284969  0.318
1988 Charnov EL, Stephens DW. On the evolution of host selection in solitary parasitoids American Naturalist. 132: 707-722. DOI: 10.1086/284883  0.568
1988 Shettleworth SJ, Krebs JR, Stephens DW, Gibbon J. Tracking a fluctuating environment: a study of sampling Animal Behaviour. 36: 87-105. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(88)80252-5  0.565
1987 Stephens DW. On economically tracking a variable environment Theoretical Population Biology. 32: 15-25. DOI: 10.1016/0040-5809(87)90036-0  0.364
1986 Stephens DW, Lynch JF, Sorensen AE, Gordon C. Preference and profitability: theory and experiment American Naturalist. 127: 533-553. DOI: 10.1086/284501  0.426
1986 Stephens DW, Paton SR. How constant is the constant of risk-aversion? Animal Behaviour. 34: 1659-1667. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(86)80253-6  0.373
1985 Stephens DW. How important are partial preferences? Animal Behaviour. 33: 667-669. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(85)80092-0  0.317
1983 Lessells CM, Stephens DW. Central place foraging: Single-prey loaders again Animal Behaviour. 31: 238-243. DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3472(83)80194-8  0.326
1982 Stephens DW, Charnov EL. Optimal foraging: Some simple stochastic models Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 10: 251-263. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00302814  0.579
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