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Overview

Friederike Range is affiliated with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in Austria. Their research spans several fields with a significant focus on psychology and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work is rooted deeply in experimental and cognitive psychology as well as genetics and social psychology.

Their scientific contributions emphasize topics such as:

  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions

Friederike Range has authored multiple research papers, including the following notable publications:

  • Comparing wolves and dogs: current status and implications for human 'self-domestication', 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • The Effect of Domestication and Experience on the Social Interaction of Dogs and Wolves With a Human Companion, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Why do dogs look back at the human in an impossible task? Looking back behaviour may be over-interpreted, 2020, Animal Cognition
  • Behavioural and cognitive changes in aged pet dogs: No effects of an enriched diet and lifelong training, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • What matters for cooperation? The importance of social relationship over cognition, 2020, Scientific Reports

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Sarah Marshall-Pescini
  • Giulia Cimarelli
  • Zsófia Virányi
  • Martina Lazzaroni
  • Gwendolyn Wirobski

Common publication venues where their work appears include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Animal Cognition
  • iScience

In addition to journal articles, Friederike Range has contributed to book publications through Springer International Publishing, notably the book titled Wolves and Dogs, published in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The evolution of self-control

    Evan L. MacLean;Brian Hare;Charles L. Nunn;Elsa Addessi

  • The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs.

    Friederike Range;Lisa Horn;Zsófia Viranyi;Ludwig Huber

  • Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Free-Ranging Sooty Mangabeys (Cercocebus atys atys) from the Taï Forest, Côte d'Ivoire: Implications for the Origin of Epidemic Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2

    Mario L. Santiago;Friederike Range;Brandon F. Keele;Yingying Li

  • Selective Imitation in Domestic Dogs

    Friederike Range;Zsófia Viranyi;Zsófia Viranyi;Ludwig Huber

  • Explaining dog wolf differences in utilizing human pointing gestures: selection for synergistic shifts in the development of some social skills.

    Márta Gácsi;Borbála Gyoöri;Zsófia Virányi;Zsófia Virányi;Enikö Kubinyi

  • Inferential reasoning by exclusion in pigeons, dogs, and humans

    Ulrike Aust;Friederike Range;Michael Steurer;Ludwig Huber

  • The Importance of the Secure Base Effect for Domestic Dogs – Evidence from a Manipulative Problem-Solving Task

    Lisa Horn;Ludwig Huber;Ludwig Huber;Friederike Range

  • The evolution of imitation: what do the capacities of non-human animals tell us about the mechanisms of imitation?

    Ludwig Huber;Friederike Range;Bernhard Voelkl;Andrea Szucsich

  • Visual categorization of natural stimuli by domestic dogs.

    Friederike Range;Ulrike Aust;Michael Steurer;Ludwig Huber

  • Importance of a species’ socioecology: Wolves outperform dogs in a conspecific cooperation task

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Jonas F. L. Schwarz;Inga Kostelnik;Zsófia Virányi

  • Novel object exploration in ravens (Corvus corax): effects of social relationships.

    Mareike Stöwe;Thomas Bugnyar;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Christian Schloegl

  • The influence of relationships on neophobia and exploration in wolves and dogs

    Lucia Moretti;Marleen Hentrup;Kurt Kotrschal;Friederike Range

  • Tracking the evolutionary origins of dog-human cooperation: the "Canine Cooperation Hypothesis"

    Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

  • The Effect of Domestication on Inhibitory Control: Wolves and Dogs Compared

    Sarah Marshall-Pescini;Zsófia Virányi;Friederike Range

  • Familiarity and dominance relations among female sooty mangabeys in the Taï National Park

    Friederike Range;Ronald Noë

  • Development of Gaze Following Abilities in Wolves (Canis Lupus)

    Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

  • Birds of a feather flock together? Perceived personality matching in owner-dog dyads

    Borbála Turcsán;Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi;Ádám Miklósi

  • Cognitive Aging in Dogs.

    Durga Chapagain;Friederike Range;Ludwig Huber;Zsófia Virányi

  • Discrimination of familiar human faces in dogs (Canis familiaris).

    Ludwig Huber;Anaïs Racca;Billy Scaf;Zsófia Virányi

  • ‘The bone is mine’: affective and referential aspects of dog growls

    Tamás Faragó;Péter Pongrácz;Friederike Range;Zsófia Virányi

  • The evolution of imitation: what do the capacities of nonhuman animals tell us about the mechanisms of imitation?

    Ludwig Huber;Friederike Range;Bernhard Völkl;Andrea Szucsich

Frequent Co-Authors

Ludwig Huber
Ludwig Huber University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Zsófia Virányi
Zsófia Virányi University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Ádám Miklósi
Ádám Miklósi Eötvös Loránd University
Thomas Bugnyar
Thomas Bugnyar University of Vienna
József Topál
József Topál Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Erich Möstl
Erich Möstl University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Achim D. Gruber
Achim D. Gruber Freie Universität Berlin
Rupert Palme
Rupert Palme University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Paul M. Sharp
Paul M. Sharp University of Edinburgh
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Elisabetta Visalberghi National Research Council (CNR)

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