Press

September 21, 2023
A new study, featuring Dr. Santos as a co-author, has revealed the positive impact that pet dogs have on their guardians' recovery from a stress-inducing task. Read more...
July 26, 2018
Our graduate student Angie Johnston was quoted in two articles about a study that investigates canine empathy. Check out what she had to say in CNN and Smithsonian Magazine!
May 16, 2018
Jeff Harder, who worked with us for a Boston Globe article, recently published a new article about his dog Mabel in the Hartford Courant. It features some footage from his...
May 13, 2018
The director of the Comparative Cognition Lab, Professor Laurie Santos, recently won a Genius Award from the Liberty Science Center. You can read the full report here....
February 20, 2018
One of our graduate students, Angie Johnston, recently gave a talk at the Lunarfest in New Haven, in celebration of the year of the dog! Check out some coverage on her talk...
February 1, 2018
The Atlantic covered our work on dingoes and nicely summarized our colleagues interdisciplinary work on canine domestication. Read more here.
January 23, 2018
Quanta Magazine covered Angie Johnston's work on dingo cognition and how it fits into the leading theory on dog domestication and evolution. Read more here!