University of New England

Faculty Profile:
Teresa Dzieweczynski

Assistant Professor
207-602-2578
Email: tdzieweczynski@une.edu
 
Education
B.S. in biology from Long Island University- Southampton College
Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology and area certificate in animal behavior from Indiana University
 
Courses
PSY 275- Intro Psychobiology Lab
PSY 335- Comparative Animal Behavior
PSY 362- Animal Cognition
PSY 425- Adv Exp Psychobiology Lab
PSY 495- Psychobiology Internship/Research

Research Interests

• Influence of social environment on male and female behavior in fish
• Use of video playback in fish behavioral experiments
• Courtship and aggression in the threespine stickleback
• Communication networks, eavesdropping, and audience effects in animals

Selected Publications

Dzieweczynski, T.L., Bessler, A.M., Shelton, D.S., & Rowland, W.J. in press. Effect of a dummy audience on male-male interactions in Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens. Ethology.

Dzieweczynski, T.L., Earley, R.L., Green, T. M. & Rowland, W.J. 2005. Audience effect is context dependent in Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens. Behavioral Ecology, 16.

Dzieweczynski, T.L. & Rowland, W.J. 2004. Behind closed doors: use of visual cover by courting male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Animal Behavior, 68: 465-471.