Modern behavioural scientists have come to acknowledge that individual animals may
respond differently to the same stimuli and that the quality of welfare and lived experience …

Animal cognition research aims to understand animal minds by using a diverse range of
methods across an equally diverse range of species. Throughout its history, the field has …

Unlike some other areas of psychology that have experienced a “reproducibility crisis,” the
extent to which research findings in comparative psychology are reliable is only just …

Replications are widely considered an essential tool to evaluate scientific claims. However,
many fields have recently reported that replication rates are low and-when they are …

Comparative cognition is the study of cognition across the tree of life. Nonhuman animals
(hereafter animals) display a broad and often surprising range of cognitive abilities. Kea (a …

Scientists often respond to failures to replicate by citing differences between the
experimental components of an original study and those of its attempted replication. In this …

Abstract Edouard Machery's article “What is Replication?” deserves particular critical
attention. For if it is correct, his Resampling Account of Replication has the power to reshape …

Animal minds are complex and diverse, making them difficult to study. This Element focuses
on a question that has received much attention in the field of comparative cognition:'Do …

Replication is an important tool used to test and develop scientific theories. Areas of
biomedical and psychological research have experienced a replication crisis, in which many …

In this thesis I explore the extent to which researchers of animal cognition should be
concerned about the reliability of its scientific results and the presence of theoretical biases …