Publications
Books
Olmstead, M.C. & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2015). Comparative Cognition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Olmstead, M.C. & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2015). Comparative Cognition Instructor’s Manual. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (Online)
Rutherford, M.D. & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (Eds.) (2013). Social Perception: Detection and Interpretation of Animacy, Agency, and Intention. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.
Refereed Journal Articles, Commentaries, & Reviews
Shore, M.J., Bukovsky, D.L., Pinheiro, S.G.V., Hancock, B.M., Liptrot, E.M., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (under review). A Survey on the Challenges, Limitations, and Opportunities of Online Testing of Infants and Young Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using our Experiences to Improve Future Practices.
ManyDogs, P., Alberghina, D., Bray, E., Buchsbaum, D., Byosiere, S., Espinosa, J., Gnanadesikan, G.E., Guran, C.-N. A., Hare, E., Horschler, D.J., Huber, L., Kuhlmeier, V.A., MacLean, E.L., Pelgrim, M.H., Perez, B., Ravid-Schurr, D., Rothkoff, L., Sexton, C.L., Silver, Z.A., & Stevens, J. R. (2023). ManyDogs Project: A big team science approach to investigating canine behavior and cognition. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews.
Karasewich, T.A., Hines, C., PInheiro, S.G.V., Buchenreider, N., Dunfield, K.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2023). Shyness as a barrier to prosocial behaviour: When do shy children help and comfort other people? Frontiers in Psychology, 14.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1128588/full [Supplemental Materials]
Norris, M.E., Swartz, M., & Kuhlmeier, V.A.. (2023). The importance of copyright and shared norms for credit in open educational resources. Frontiers in Education, 7.
https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.1069388 [Supplemental Materials]
MacGowan, T.L., Karasewich, T.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2023). Developmental and evolutionary models of social fear can address "the human fear paradox". Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
McCreary, M.K., Jones, S.V.R., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2022). Following the human point: Research with nonhuman animals since Povinelli, Nelson, and Boysen (1990). Learning & Behavior.
[View Preprint] [Supplemental Material] https://doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00546-0
Holden, O.L., Norris, M.E., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2021). Academic integrity in online assessment: A research review. Frontiers in Education, 6, 258.
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2021.639814
Hilton, B.C., O'Neill, AC., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2021). Emerging selectivity: Group membership and early prosociality. Journal of Cognition and Development, 22(2), 267-280.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2021.1890601
Kuhlmeier, V.A., Karasewich, T.A., & Olmstead, M.C. (2020). Teaching animal learning and cognition: Adapting to the online environment. Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 15, 187-198.
http://comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CCBR-vol15-2020-pp187-198-Kuhlmeier.pdf [Supplemental Materials]
Lamontagne, S. J., Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Olmstead, M.C. (2020). Comparative cognition and cognitive ecology in the classroom. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 74, 176-182.
[View Preprint] [Supplemental Material] https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000213
Karasewich, T.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2020). Trait social anxiety as a conditional adaptation: A developmental and evolutionary framework. Developmental Review, 55, 100886.
[View Preprint] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2019.100886
Karasewich, T.A., Kuhlmeier, V.A., Beier, J.S., & Dunfield, K.A. (2019). Getting help for others: An examination of indirect helping in young children. Developmental Psychology, 55, 606-611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000654
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Hilton, B.C., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2019). Intention attribution and the development of moral evaluation. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 9:2663. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02663
Dunfield, K.A., Best, L.J., Kelley, E.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2019). Motivating moral behavior: Helping, sharing, and comforting in young children with autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 10:25. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00025
O'Neill, A.C., Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Craig, W. (2018). Examining the association between parenting and psychosomatic problems: Self-esteem as a mediator across ages in early adolescence. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 24(2), 137-148.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2018.1482771
O'Neill, A.C., Swigger, K., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2018). Make The Connection’ parenting skills program: a controlled trial of associated improvement in maternal attitudes. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 36(5), 536-547.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2018.1497779
Sabbagh, M.A., Koenig, M.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2016). Conceptual constraints and mechanisms in children’s selective social learning. Developmental Science, 20, e12415. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12415
Robson, S.J., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2016). Infants’ understanding of object-directed action: An interdisciplinary synthesis. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 7:111. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00111
Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Olmstead, M.C. (2016). Keep Calm and Comp. Cog. On – Commentary on ‘A crisis in comparative psychology: where have all the undergraduates gone?’ Frontiers in Psychology: Comparative Psychology, 7:20. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00020
Robson, S.J., Lee, V., Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Rutherford, M.D. (2014). Infants use contextual contingency to guide their interpretation of others' goal-directed behavior. Cognitive Development, 31, 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2014.04.001
Kuhlmeier, V.A., Dunfield, K. A., & O’Neill, A. (2014). Selectivity in early prosocial behavior. Frontiers in Psychology: Developmental Psychology, 5, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00836
Dunfield, K.A. & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2013). Classifying prosocial behaviour: children’s responses to instrumental need, emotional distress, and material desire. Child Development, 84, 1766-1776. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12075
Dunfield, K.A., Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Murphy, L. (2013). Children's use of communicative intent in the selection of cooperative partners. PLOS One, 8 (4): e61804. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061804
Lee, V. & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2013). Young children show a dissociation in looking and pointing behavior in falling events. Cognitive Development, 28, 21-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.06.001
Dunfield, K.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2013). Evidence for partner choice in toddlers: Considering the breadth of other-oriented behaviours. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 88-89. [Commentary on: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X11002202 ]
Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Robson, S.J. (2012). Diagnosing goal attribution: commentary on Hernik and Southgate. Developmental Science, 15, 725-726. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01162.x
Dunfield, K.A., Kuhlmeier, V.A., O’Connell, L., & Kelley, E. (2011). Examining the diversity of prosocial behavior: helping, sharing, and comforting in infancy. Infancy, 16(3), 227-247.
Newman, G.E., Keil, F.C., Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Wynn, K. (2010). Early understandings of the link between agents and order. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 17140-17145.
Camilleri, J.A., Kuhlmeier, V.A., Chu, J.Y.Y. (2010). Recognizing helpers and hinderers depends on behavioral intentions of the character and psychopathic characteristics of the observer. Evolutionary Psychology, 8, 303-316.
Dunfield, K.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2010). Intention-mediated selective helping in infancy. Psychological Science, 21, 523-527.
Kuhlmeier, V.A., Troje, N., and Lee, V. (2010). Young infants detect the direction of biological motion in point-light displays. Infancy, 15, 83-93.
Yamaguchi, M., Kuhlmeier, V.A., Wynn, K., & vanMarle, K. (2009). Continuity in social cognition from infancy to childhood. Developmental Science, 12, 746-752.
Hallinan, E.V., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2008). Ontongeny, phylogeny, and the relational reinterpretation hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 138-139.
Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Tzelnic, T. (2007). How infants predict other people’s behavior. Scientific American: Mind Matters.
Kuhlmeier, V.A. & Birch, S.A.J. (2005). Steps toward categorizing ‘motivation’: Abilities, limitations, and conditional constraints. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 706-707.
Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2005). Symbolic insight and perseveration: Two problems facing young children on symbolic retrieval tasks. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6, 365-380.
Kuhlmeier, V.A., Bloom, P., & Wynn, K. (2004). Do 5-month-old infants see humans as material objects? Cognition, 94, 95-103.
Kuhlmeier, V.A., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2004). People v. Objects: A reply to Rakison and Chicchino. Cognition, 94, 109-112.
Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2004). An inclusive primate psychology: Review of Primate Psychology. American Scientist, September-October.
Kuhlmeier, V.A., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2003). Attribution of Dispositional States by 12-month-olds. Psychological Science, 14, 402-408.
Kuhlmeier, V.A. & Bloom, P. (2003). You can dance if you want to. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 630-631.
Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Boysen, S.T. (2002). Chimpanzees' recognition of the spatial and object similarities between a scale model and its referent. Psychological Science, 13, 60-63.
Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2002). Review of Matsuzawa, T. (Ed.), Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior. Animal Behaviour, 63, 829-830.
Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Boysen, S.T. (2001). The effect of response contingencies on chimpanzee scale model task performance. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 115, 300-306.
Kuhlmeier, V.A.; Boysen, S.T; & Mukobi, K.M. (1999). Scale model comprehension by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 113 (4), 396-402.
Book Chapters
Olmstead, M.C., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2022). Comparative Cognition. In A.R. Ridley, P. d'Ettorre, & T.M. Freeberg (Eds.), Rutledge Handbook of Comparative Psychology. Oxfordshire, UK: Rutledge.
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Kuhlmeier, V.A., Karasewich, T., & Dunfield, K.A. (2020). Selective prosocial behavior in early childhood. In J. Decety (Ed.), The Social Brain: A Developmental Perspective (pp. 247-262). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kuhlmeier, V. A., Mayne, K., & Craig, W. (2019). Developmental Psychology. In M. E. Norris (Ed.), The Canadian Handbook for Careers in Psychological Science. Kingston, ON: eCampus Ontario. Licensed under CC BY NC 4.0. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/psychologycareers/chapter/developmental/
Robson, S.J., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2017). Pretend Play. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York, NY: Springer.
Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2017). Sarah “Sally” Boysen. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. New York, NY: Springer.
Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2013). The social perception of helping and hindering. In M.D. Rutherford & V.A. Kuhlmeier (Eds.), Social Perception. Cambridge, MA: MIT/Bradford Press.
Rutherford, M.D., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2013). The interdisciplinary study of social perception. In M.D. Rutherford & V.A. Kuhlmeier (Eds.), Social Perception. Cambridge, MA: MIT/Bradford Press.
Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2013). Disposition attribution in infancy. In M. Banaji, & S. Gelmen (Eds.), Navigating the Social World: What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us. Oxford University Press.
Sabbagh, M., Benson, J., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2013). False belief understanding in preschoolers and infants. In M. Legerstee, D. Haley, and M. Bornstein (Eds.), The Infant Mind: Origins of the Social Brain, Guilford Press.
Kuhlmeier, V.A., & Boysen, S.T. (2003). Animal Cognition. In Macmillan Publishers Limited, Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
Boysen, S.T. & Kuhlmeier, V.A.. (2002). Representational capacities for pretense with scale models and photographs in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). In R. Mitchell (Ed.), Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children.
Boysen, S.T., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2002). Representational Capacities in the Chimpanzees: Numerical and Spatial Reasoning. In B.M.F. Galdikas, N.E. Briggs, L.K. Sheeran, G.L. Shapiro, and J. Goodall (Eds.), All Apes Great and Small Volume 1: African Apes. Hingham, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Boysen, S.T., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2001). Conceptual capacities of chimpanzees. In B.Beck et al. (Eds.), Great Apes and Humans: The Ethics of Coexistence. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Boysen, S.T.; Kuhlmeier, V.A.; Halliday, P.; & Halliday, Y. (1999). Tool use in captive gorillas. In S. Parker, R.W. Mitchell & H.L. Miles (Eds.), The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans: Comparative Perspectives (pp.179-187). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Science Communication, Knowledge Translation, & Reports
Burrows, H.M.R., McCreary, M.K., Shore, M.J., Pinheiro, S.G.V., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (accepted). Animals helping animals: How dog detectives can help us save endangered species. Frontiers for Young Minds.
Jones, S.V.R., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2020). How do police dogs learn to do their job? Frontiers for Young Minds.
https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2020.00109
Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2017). Summary of research on canine cognition and behaviour in relation to the training of police dogs. Prepared for Kingston Police K9 Unit: Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Swigger, K., O'Neill, A.C. & Kuhlmeier, V. A. (2017). Outcome Evaluation of the “Make the Connection” 0-12 Parenting Program. Toronto Public Health. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
O’Neill, A.C., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (2016). “Make the Connection” Program Evaluation: Internal Report. Prepared for Toronto Public Health: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.