DogStudies Publications

Bender, Y.; Altschul, D.; Henschel, M.; Jandke, L.; Schweinberger, S. R.; Bräuer, J.: Perfect match: understanding personality based compatibility in dog-owner dyads. Current research in behavioral sciences 10, 100196 (2025)

Kaminski, J.; Capitain, S.; Kühr, F.; Nussbaum, C.; Bräuer, J.: What makes a dog a label-learner: individual cognitive differences underlying label-learning abilities in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris). Scientific Reports 15 (1), 41616 (2025)

Radovanović, K.; Lorskens, A.; Schütte, S.; Bräuer, J.; Call, J.; Haun, D. B. M.; van Leeuwen, E. J. C.: Bonobos respond aversively to unequal reward distributions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292 (2045), 20242873 (2025)

Bender, Y.; Roth, F.; Schweinberger, S.; Witte, S.; Bräuer, J.: Like owner, like dog; a systematic review about similarities in dog-human dyads. Personality and Individual Differences 233, 112884, pp. 1 - 11 (2025)

Bräuer, J.; Mann, V.; Erlacher, J.: Eyes or nose: domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) prefer vision over olfaction when searching for food. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 0000415 (2025)

Bräuer, J.; Eichentopf, D.; Gebele, N.; Jandke, L.; Mann, V.; Schulte, K.; Bender, Y.: Dogs distinguish authentic human emotions without being empathic. Animal Cognition 27 (1), 60, pp. 1 - 12 (2024)

Gebele, N.; Croy, I.; Bräuer, J.: Odor-based recognition of canine stress: investigating human olfactory perception. Journal of sensory studies 39 (6), e70002, pp. 1 - 8 (2024)

Schneider, A. K. E.; Bräuer, J.: Exploring levels of interspecies interaction: expectations, knowledge, and empathy in human–dog relationships. Animals 14 (17), 2509 (2024)

Bender, Y.; Matschkowski, T.; Schweinberger, S. R.; Bräuer, J.: "An Aid with Soul": understanding the determinants of guide dog-owner compatibility from qualitative interviews. Animals, 13172751 (2023)

Chira, A. M.; Kirby, K.; Epperlein, T.; Bräuer, J.: Function predicts how people treat their dogs in a global sample. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 4954 (2023)

Bender, Y.; Bräuer, J.; Schweinberger, S. R.: What makes a good dog-owner team?: a systematic review about compatibility in personality and attachment. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 260, 105857, pp. 1 - 11 (2023)

Bräuer, J.; Bender, Y.: Warum die Vergleichende Psychologie auf den Hund gekommen ist. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie 55 (1), a000267, pp. 3 - 8 (2023)

Epperlein, T.; Kovacs, G.; Oña, L. S.; Amici, F.; Bräuer, J.: Context and prediction matter for the interpretation of social interactions across species. PLoS One 17 (12), e0277783 (2022)

Bräuer, J.; Vidal Orga, B.: Why wolves became dogs: interdisciplinary questions on domestication. In: Dogs, past and present: an interdisciplinary perspective, Chapter 2.3, pp. 72 - 82 (Eds. Fiore, I.; Lugli, F.). Archaeopress, Summertown (2023)

Bender, Y.: What makes a good dog-owner team?: Exploring the role of personality and caregiving for successful dog ownership. Habilitation, 230 pp., Friedrich Schiller University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Jena (2025)

The dissonance between knowing animals are sentient beings yet eating them: Commentary on Rowan et al. on Sentience Politics (Animal Sentience, 31). (2022), 4 pp.

Bräuer, J.: Mathematics in the animal kingdom: why numerical competence is adaptive. (2025)

Bräuer, J.: Help me if you can: here's how humans, chimps, dogs and mice help each other. (2025)

Bräuer, J.: Are social species better off?: Are we stronger together? A new study highlights the advantages of being social. (2024)

Bräuer, J.: Small birds with a big impact: Honeyguides show people the location of bee nests. (2024)