Kristina Pattison

Kristina Pattison has been a member of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory since 2008. After an initial career in the field of banking she worked as a professional dog behavior consultant and as a breeder of champion Belgian Tervuren. She attended Western Kentucky University (WKU) where she earned a bachelors degree in Psychology and then a master of arts in Experimental Psychology. At WKU she studied canine and human perception. She is particularly interested in researching dog behavior and cognition, and is interested in understanding the black box that we lovingly call the mind of a dog. She also works with pigeons and is studying individual differences in risk-taking behavior.