Publications

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Newest Papers
 
Preprints
Status Title & authors  
Preprint Information Architectures: A Framework for Understanding Socio-Technical Systems. Paul E. Smaldino, Adam Russell, Matthew R. Zefferman, Judith Donath, Jacob G. Foster, Douglas Guilbeault, Martin Hilbert, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Kristina Lerman, Helena Miton, Cody Moser, Jana Lasser, Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Jacob N. Shapiro, Qiankun Zhong, Dan Patt.  In review. Preprint available on SocArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/c7vrw  
Preprint Familiarity with social partners influences affiliative interactions but not spatial associations. Claire L. O’Connell, Annemarie van der Marel , Elizabeth A. Hobson. In revision. Preprint available on ecoevoRxiv: https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/7201/   
Preprint Automated tracking of avian parental care behavior. Smith-Vidaurre, G., Molina, T., Jarvis, E.D., and Hobson, E.A. In revision. preprint available on ecoevoRxiv: https://doi.org/10.32942/X2Z60C  
Preprint Perturbations of key individuals trigger shifts in group-level dominance patterns. Anne Marie van der Marel, Xavier Francis, Claire L. O’Connell, Cesar O. Estien, Chelsea E. Carminito, Elizabeth A. Hobson. In revision [preprint available on ecoevorxiv]  
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Published papers
# Year Title, authors, & links Altmetrics
[42] 2024

Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions. Gerald G. Carter, Simon P. Ripperger, Vi Girbino, M. May Dixon, Imran Razik, Rachel A. Page, Elizabeth A. Hobson. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15241
 
[41] 2024

An interactive online game that uses simulations of hunting vampire bats to introduce students to coding. Elizabeth A. Hobson, Sanjay Prasher, Gerald Carter, and Joshua Garland. Advances in Biology Laboratory Education, Volume 44. https://doi.org/10.37590/able.v44.art11 
 
[40] 2024

Collective signalling is shaped by feedbacks between signaller variation, receiver perception, and acoustic environment in a simulated communication network. Michael S. Reichert, Barney Luttbeg, Elizabeth A. Hobson. Philosophical Transactions B, “The power of sound: unravelling how acoustic communication shapes group dynamics”. Link to paper; Table of contents link to issue.
 
[39] 2024

Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats. C. Raven A. Hartman, Gerald S. Wilkinson, Imran Razik, Ian M. Hamilton, Elizabeth A. Hobson and Gerald G. Carter. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [open access link to paper]
 
[38] 2024

The path of complexity. Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Antoine Allard, Joshua Garland, Elizabeth A. Hobson & Luis Zaman. npj Complexity [open access link to paper]
 
[37] 2023
Inferred Attractiveness: A generalized mechanism for sexual selection that can maintain variation in traits and preferences over time. Emily H. DuVal, Courtney L. Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Maria R. Servedio. PLoS Biology 21(10): e3002269. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002269  Winner of the 2024 American Ornithological Society Katma Award (presented to Emily DuVal) which recognizes papers proposing ideas or testing theories that replace current dogma or settled opinion and that could change the course of thinking about the biology of birds.
 
[36] 2023
Individual identity information persists in learned parrot calls after invasion. Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Valeria Perez-Marrufo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza, Timothy F. Wright. PLOS Computational Biology https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011231 
 
[35] 2023
Challenges and opportunities to build quantitative self-confidence in biologists. Kim Cuddington, Karen C. Abbott, Frederick R. Adler, Mehmet Aydeniz, Rene Dale, Louis J. Gross, Alan Hastings, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Vadim Karatayev, Alexander Killion, Aasakiran Madamanchi, Michelle Marraffini, Audrey McCombs, Widodo Samyono, Shin-Han Shiu, Karen H. Watanabe, Easton R. White. BioScience 73(5): 364–375 
 
[34] 2023
Inferring the identifying features underlying association preferences in wild mixed species parrot groups. Vanessa Ferdinand, Elle Pattenden, Donald Brightsmith, Elizabeth A. Hobson. Philosophical Transactions B in the special issue “Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes” [link to journal article] [preprint available on ecoevorxiv]
 
[33] 2023
Social manipulations disentangle rank effects of individual characteristics and social history. Anne Marie van der Marel, Xavier Francis, Claire L. O’Connell, Cesar O. Estien, Chelsea E. Carminito, Virginia Darby Moore, Nickolas Lormand, Bryan M. Kluever, and Elizabeth A. Hobson. Behavioral Ecology [link to journal article]
 
[32] 2022
A low-cost solution for documenting, tracking, and verifying cage-level animal husbandry tasks using wireless QR scanners and cloud-based spreadsheets. Elizabeth A. Hobson. Animal Behavior and Cognition: 9(4), 416-427. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.05.2022 [open access full version]
 
[31] 2022
Playback experiments elicit temporary group repulsion, not attraction, in a globally distributed pest parrot. Cesar Omar Estien, Claire L. O’Connell, Xavier Francis, Grace Smith-Vidaurre, Bryan M. Kluever, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Anne Marie van der Marel. Animal Behavior and Cognition: 9(4) 363-384. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.01.2022. [open access full version]
 
[30] 2022
Personality-mediated speed-accuracy tradeoffs in mating in a 17-year periodical cicada. Allison Roth, Sarah M. Kent, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Gene Kritsky, & Shinichi Nakagawa. Behavioral Ecology [full text published version] [pdf]
 
[29] 2022
Interactions, information and emergence: Exploring task allocation in ant colonies using network analysis
Anshuman Swain, Sara D Williams, Louisa J Di Felice, Elizabeth A Hobson. Animal Behaviour 189: 69-81. [full text published version] [preprint freely available on bioRxiv] *Selected as one of the July 2022 Editor’s Choice articles in Animal Behaviour
 
[28] 2022 DomArchive: a century of published dominance data. Eli D. Strauss, Alex R. DeCasien, Gabriela Galindo, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Daizaburo Shizuka and James P. Curley. Philosophical Transactions B in the special issue “The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies” Volume 377(1845), doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0436
 
[27] 2022 Quantifying the dynamics of nearly 100 years of dominance hierarchy research. Elizabeth Hobson. Philosophical Transactions B in the special issue “The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies” Volume 377(1845), doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0433 (preprint freely available here)
 
[26] 2022 The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies
Eli D. Strauss, James P. Curley, Daizaburo Shizuka and Elizabeth A. Hobson. Philosophical Transactions B in the special issue “The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies” Volume 377(1845),  doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0432
 
[25] 2021 Expanding the landscape of opportunity: Peer coaching and United Sponsorship support early career researchers. Delia S. Shelton, Mikel M. Delgado, E. V. Ginny Greenway, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Alycia C.R. Lackey, Angela Medina-Garcia, Beth A. Reinke, Paula A. Trillo, Caitlin P. Wells, M. Claire Horner-Devine. Journal of Comparative Psychology doi.org/10.1037/com0000300
 
[24] 2021 A comparison of low-cost behavioral observation software applications for handheld computers and recommendations for use. Annemarie van der Marel, Claire L. O’Connell, Sanjay Prasher, Chelsea Carminito, Xavier Francis, Elizabeth A. Hobson. Ethology doi.org/10.1111/eth.13251 [full text freely available on arXiv]
 
[23] 2021 A guide to choosing and implementing reference models for social network analysis
Elizabeth A. Hobson, Matthew J. Silk, Nina H. Fefferman, Daniel B. Larremore, Puck Rombach, Saray Shai, Noa Pinter-Wollman Biological Reviews doi.org/10.1111/brv.12775 [open access published version] Access the recommendation on F1000Prime
 
[22] 2021
Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions
David N. Fisher, R. Julia Kilgour, Erin R. Siracusa, Jennifer R. Foote, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Pierre-Olivier Montiglio, Julia B. Saltz, Tina W. Wey, Eric W. Wice
Biological Reviews doi.org/10.1111/brv.12772
 
[21] 2021
From equality to hierarchy  
Simon DeDeo & Elizabeth A. Hobson
PNAS 118 (21) e2106186118
 
[20] 2021
Satellite telemetry reveals complex migratory movement patterns of two large macaw species in the western Amazon basin 
Donald J. Brightsmith, Janice D. Boyd, Elizabeth A. Hobson, and C J. Randel
Avian Conservation and Ecology 16(1):14
 
[19] 2021
Aggression heuristics underlie animal dominance hierarchies and provide evidence of group-level social information
Elizabeth A. Hobson, Dan Mønster, & Simon DeDeo
PNAS 118 (10) e2022912118
 
[18] 2020
A framework to evaluate whether to pool or separate behaviors in a multilayer network
Annemarie van der Marel, Sanjay Prasher, Chelsea Carminito, Claire O’Connell, Alexa Phillips, Bryan M. Kluever, Elizabeth A. Hobson
Current Zoology, Special Issue “Embracing the Complexity of Animal Social Systems Using Multilayer Network Analysis”
[Open-access published version] [summary & impact]
 
[17] 2020
Differences in social information are critical to understanding aggressive behavior in animal dominance hierarchies
Elizabeth A. Hobson
Current Opinion in Psychology, Special Issue on Power, Status, and Hierarchy. 33: 209-215
 
[16] 2019
Rethinking animal social complexity measures with the help of complex systems concepts
Elizabeth A. Hobson, Vanessa Ferdinand, Artemy Kolchinsky, and Joshua Garland
Animal Behaviour 
[link to journal page]  [citations & impact]  [summary & press]

 
 
[15] 2018
Social tipping points in animal societies
Jonathan N. Pruitt, Andrew Berdahl, Christina Riehl, Noa Pinter-Wollman, Holly V. Moeller, Elizabeth G. Pringle, Lucy M. Aplin, Elva J. H. Robinson, Jacopo Grilli, Pamela Yeh, Van M. Savage, Michael H. Price, Joshua Garland, Ian C. Gilby, Margaret C. Crofoot, Grant N. Doering, & Elizabeth A. Hobson.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B  DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1282
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[14] 2018
Theory meets empiry: a citation network analysis
Fitzpatrick, Courtney L., Elizabeth A. Hobson, Tamra C. Mendelson, Rafael L. Rodríguez, Rebecca J. Safran, Elizabeth Scordato, Maria R. Servedio, Caitlin A. Stern, Laurel Symes, B. Michael Kopp.
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[13] 2018
Edge-weight variance: population genetic metrics for social network analysis
McDonald, David B. & Elizabeth A. Hobson.
Animal Behaviour 136:239-250
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[12] 2017
History of nonnative Monk Parakeets in Mexico
Hobson, Elizabeth A. , Grace Smith-Vidaurre, and Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza.
PLOS ONE 12(9): e0184771
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[11] 2017
Food availability and breeding season as predictors of geophagy in Amazonian parrots
Brightsmith, Donald J.*, Elizabeth A. Hobson*, and Gustavo Martinez. (* indicates shared first authorship)
Ibis 160:112-129.
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[10] 2017
Studying audience effects in animals: what we can learn from human language research
Coppinger, Brittany, Ryan A. Cannistraci, Ferhat Karaman, Steven C. Kyle, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Todd M. Freeberg, and Jessica F. Hay.
Animal Behaviour 124: 161–165.
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[9] 2015
Social feedback and the emergence of rank in animal society
Hobson, Elizabeth A. &Simon DeDeo.
PLOS Computational Biology 11(9): e1004411. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004411
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[8] 2015
Shared genetic diversity across the global invasive range of the Monk parakeet suggests a common restricted geographic origin and the possibility of parallel selection
Edelaar, Pim, Severine Roques, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Michael L. Avery, Michael A. Russello, Juan C. Senar, Timothy F. Wright, Martina Carrete, & José L. Tella.
Molecular Ecology 24(9): 2164-2176.
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[7] 2015
The effect of social context and social scale on the perception of relationships in monk parakeets
Hobson, Elizabeth A., D. J. John*, T. L. McIntosh*, M. L. Avery, & T. F. Wright. (* indicates undergraduate researchers)
Current Zoology Special Issue, Animal Social Networks 61(1): 55-69.
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[6] 2014
The socioecology of Monk Parakeets: insights into parrot social complexity
Hobson, Elizabeth A., Michael Avery, & Timothy Wright.
The Auk: Ornithological Advances 131(4): 756-775.
**Note: Due to a bug in SOCPROG 2.4, the reported dominance hierarchy steepness values we reported were inaccurate. Steepness for both captive groups is more moderate than previously reported (~0.5 rather than <0.1), now placing the two groups midway on the egalitarianism/despotism continuum. This change in steepness does not alter our general findings about Monk Parakeet socioecology. An erratum is now available.
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[5] 2014
The dynamics of animal social networks: analytical, conceptual, and theoretical advances
Pinter-Wollman, Noa, Elizabeth Hobson, Jennifer Smith, Andrew Edelman, Daizaburo Shizuka, Shermin de Silva, James Waters, Steven Prager, Takao Sasaki, George Wittemyer, Jennifer Fewell, David McDonald.
Behavioral Ecology 25(2): 242-255.
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Response to comments on the dynamics of network dynamics
Pinter-Wollman, Noa, Elizabeth Hobson, Jennifer Smith, Andrew Edelman, Daizaburo Shizuka, Shermin de Silva, James Waters, Steven Prager, Takao Sasaki, George Wittemyer, Jennifer Fewell, David McDonald.
Behavioral Ecology 25(2): 260-261.
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[4] 2013
An analytical framework for quantifying and testing patterns of temporal dynamics in social networks
Hobson, Elizabeth A., M. Avery, & T. Wright. 2013.
Animal Behaviour 85(1):83-96.
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[3] 2012
Survival on the ark: life-history trends in captive parrots
Young, A., E. A. Hobson, L. Bingaman Lackey, T. F. Wright.
Animal  Conservation 15(1): 28-43.
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[2] 2010
Behavioral flexibility and species invasions: the adaptive flexibility hypothesis
Wright, Timothy F., Jessica R. Eberhard, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Michael L. Avery, and Michael A. Russello.
Ethology Ecology & Evolution 22: 393-404.
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[1] 2008
Individual recognition and selective response to contact calls in foraging brown-throated conures, Aratinga pertinax
Buhrman-Deever, Susannah C., Elizabeth A. Hobson, & Aaron D. Hobson.
Animal Behaviour 76(5): 1715-1725.
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Published book chapters
Year Title, authors, & links
2022 Network approaches to understanding social organization and
complexity. Elizabeth A. Hobson and Gerald G. Carter. 2022. In The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology, edited by Todd Freeberg, Amanda Ridley, and Patrizia d’Ettorre. ISBN 9780367546045