Julia Meyers-Manor has been a professor of Psychology at Ripon College since fall of 2017. She earned her Bachelors degree from Macalester College, and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Julia runs the Animal Cognition lab, where students are able to work with rat populations to further understand animal behavior. She also often brings in her own dogs to her classes, giving the opportunity to students to work with the canine population as well.
Office Hours Spring 2021: Tuesday 10-11 am; Thursday 9-10 am
Dog Office Hours: Second Tuesday of the Month 9:30-10:30 am (ON HOLD FOR 2021)
Development of AN ethanol model using social insects: III. Preferences for ethanol solutions, March 2004
The genesis of animal play: Testing the limits, November 2005
Lipopolysaccharide-induced immune activation impairs attention but has little effect on short-term working memory, December 2008
Not So Bird-Brained: Pigeons Show What-Where-When Memory Both as Time of Day and How Long Ago, December 2013
Alerts for Assessing Biological Constraints on Learning, January 2015
Lending a helping paw: The role of gender and stress levels on pro-social and empathy behaviors in rats, April 2015
Heart rate variability in dogs: Toward a valid behavioral model of empathy in companion animals, October 2015
Learning and Behavior: A Contemporary Synthesis (2nd Edition), April 2016
The Relationship Between Heart Rate Variability and Canine Aggression, January 2017
If it looks like a duck: Fish fit the criteria for pain perception, May 2018
Timmy's in the Well: Empathy and Prosocial Helping in Dogs, July 2018