Janis Dickinson

• Ph.D. Cornell University
• B.S. Binghamton University

Citizen science, evolutionary behavioral ecology — birds and insects.

Selected Publications

• Smith, M.G., Ç. Akçay, D. Shizuka, C. A. Stern, and J.L. Dickinson. 2020.  Extraterritorial visits in a cooperatively breeding songbird are consistent with multiple functions.  Animal Behaviour, 170: Pages 119-132.
• Dickinson, J.L. and R.L. Crain. 2019. An experimental study of learning in an online citizen science project: Insights into study design and waitlist controls. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice.  4(1), p.26. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.218
• Song, H., Schuldt, J. P., McLeod P. L., Crain, R., & Dickinson, J. L. (2018). Group norm violations in an online, environmental, social network: Effects on impression formation and inter-group judgments.  Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 21: 422-437.
• *Smith, M.G., Dickinson, J.L., Rush, A.W., Wade, A.L., and D.-S. Yang. 2017. Western bluebird parents preferentially feed hungrier nestlings in a design that balances location in the nest. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71: 1-7. [with 3 UC Berkeley undergrads and 1 Cornell undergrad as first author].
• Dickinson, J.L., McLeod, P., Bloomfield, R., and S. Allred.  2016.  Which moral foundations predict willingness to make lifestyle changes to avert climate change in the USA?  PlosONE doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163852.
• *Akçay, C., Arnold, J.A., Hambury, K.L., and J.L. Dickinson. 2016. Age discrimination of rival males in western bluebirds. Animal Cognition 19: 999-1006.
• *Milligan, M. and J.L. Dickinson. 2016. Habitat quality and nest box occupancy by five species of oak woodland birds. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 123: 429-438.
• Stern, C.A. and J.L. Dickinson. 2016. Effects of load-lightening and delayed extrapair benefits on the fitness consequences of helping behavior. Behavioral Ecology 127: 1078-1086. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arw018
• Dickinson, J.L., Akcay, C., Ferree, E.D., and C.A. Stern. 2016. A hierarchical analysis of incest avoidance in a cooperative breeder.  Behavioral Ecology 27: 1132-1140. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arw020
• Michelucci, P. and J.L. Dickinson. 2016. The power of crowds: Combining the strengths of humans and machines to tackle increasingly hard problems. Science 351: 14-15.

• Loye and Alden Miller Award for lifetime achievement in ornithological research, 2018; Ecological Research Award (Japan); Fellow: AAAS, Animal Behavior Society, California Academy of Sciences, American Ornithological Society; Cook Award for changing the climate for women at Cornell University

• Graduate seminar in evolutionary behavioral ecology