Evan MacLean was featured on 60 Minutes, where he spoke to Anderson Cooper about the Dog Aging Project. You can watch the full episode on Paramount Plus

...“Oxytocin can lower blood pressure and reduce stress reactivity,” noted Evan MacLean, an associate professor of veterinary medicine and psychology at the University of Arizona. “It can turn down the volume on that stress signal,” which can help you feel calmer physically and emotionally, he said...

The human mind is unlike any other. It’s the key that unlocked language, culture, abstract reasoning, long-term planning, and large-scale political coordination — all the cognitive features that set us so far apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Dr. Emily Bray was interviewed in the Netflix original documentary Inside the Mind of a Dog, where she discussed her research on maternal styles in dogs, and showcased some of the cognition tasks performed with dogs at the service dog organization Canine Companions.

“Most of the questions that we have in science are not questions about what happens to animals living in sterile environments,” said Evan MacLean, the director of the Arizona Canine Cognition Center at the University of Arizona. “They’re questions about real organisms in the real world shared with humans. And dogs are a really, really good proxy for that in ways that other animals aren’t.”

“People who do developmental psychology don’t have labs full of 12-month-olds,” said Evan MacLean, the director of the Arizona Canine Cognition Center at the University of Arizona. “They have phone numbers of parents. We have the phone numbers of dog parents.”

Three U.S. military working dogs demonstrated their skill sets for the Canine Cognition Center, a veterinarian research group affiliated with the University of Arizona, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on Feb. 7, 2024.

Dr. Emily Bray's new study of 375 puppies from Canine Companions for Independence, entitled "Early-emerging and Highly Heritable Sensitivity to Human Communication in Dogs", has received coverage from diverse media outlets, including Smithsonian Magazine, New Scientist, NBC, CNN, Yahoo, and Axios.

Scientific American's 60-Second Science Podcast interviews Dr. Emily Bray about her work with puppies at Canine Companions for Independence.

Science Magazine talks to Dr. Evan MacLean about research at Canine Companions for Independence that is revealing the influence of genetics on puppies' social intelligence.