Prof. John E. R. Staddon

John E. R. Staddon

James B. Duke Professor of Psychology
Professor of Biology
Duke University, North Carolina (USA)

Personal page: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/pn/faculty/staddon
                       http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Biology/staddon

PsyCrit – Critical Commentary and Review of Papers in Psychology (online Journal edited by John Staddon): http://psycrit.com/Introduction

List of publications (pdf)


Education
: B.Sc. in Psychology at University College, London (England); PhD in Experimental Psychology at Harvard University.

Research interests: Evolution and mechanisms of learning; Feeding regulation; Adaptation to reward schedules; Timing and memory; Temporal dynamics of choice, timing models for choice behavior; Time discrimination, recurrent choice and the effects of sequences of stimuli; Functional and mechanistic models for behavior: analytical and computer-simulation studies, real-time top-down models, diffusion models for spatial orientation, parallel models for the assignment-of-credit (response-selection) problem in operant conditioning, nonlinear dynamics model for operant behavior, models for the dynamics of feeding behavior and a habituation-based model for memory and interval timing.

Present positions: Editor, PsyCrit (on-line journal of commentary on published research articles in psychology and behavioral neuroscience) ● Learning and Adaptive Behavior (LAB) group (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/labgroup.htm) ● Academic Advisory Committee, John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy (http://www.popecenter.org/about/academic_advisory.html) ● Board of Trustees, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

Awards and acknowledgments: Festschrift in honor of John Staddon, 2003 (http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2003/05/20030515.html; http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11499) ● 1999 Brenda J. Milner Award, APA, for the paper the dynamics of operant conditioning ●Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1981.

Web resources on Professor Staddon: Staddon's page on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._E._R._Staddon ) ● Scholarpedia article on operant conditioning by J. E. R. Staddon (with Yael Niv, http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Operant_conditioning) ● John Staddon discussions on social issues: Why stop signs and speed limits make America less safe (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/dn071308staddon.5000d66f.html; video: http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2008/12/john-staddon-on-traffic-signs.html); The social benefits of smoking (http://www.carolinajournal.com/articles/display_story.html?id=5041; video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asepmNagl3s); Who should pay for science? (http://reason.com/people/john-staddon/article.xml ● John Staddon, Have race biased admissions improved American higher education? Society for Academic Freedomand Scholarship, Newsletter 2003 (http://www.safs.ca/april2003/highereducation.html) ● Staddon's pieces (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/BlogTable.htm) ● Staddon, The Harvard Pigeon Lab: Memories of Memorial Hall ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1284881 ) Videolectures: John Staddon SQAB Tutorials: Dynamics (1996) (video: http://sqab.psychology.org/tutorials.php)



SOME PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB

(2007) Zanutto BS, Staddon JER. Bang-Bang control of feeding: Role of hypothalamic and satiety signals. PLoS Computational Biology 3(5) (http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030097)

(2005) Staddon, J.E.R., Beyond method. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 18(1),42-45 (http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sm8q671)

(2005) J.E.R. Staddon, Interval timing: Memory not a clock, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 9 no. 7 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/Staddon2005.pdf)

(2003) Staddon, J. E. R., Adaptive behavior and learning, New York: Cambridge University Press. INTERNET EDITION: http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/abl/TableC.htm.

(2005) Ludvig, E.A., & Staddon, J.E.R., The effects of interval duration on temporal tracking and alternation learning, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, pp. 243-262 ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1193757)

(2005) Jozefowiez, J., Cerutti, D.T., & Staddon, J.E.R., Timing in choice experiments, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 31 no. 2, pp. 213-225 (Preprint: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1283136)

(2004) Cerutti, D.T., & Staddon, J.E.R., Immediacy vs. anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: A test of the cognitive hypothesis, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 30, pp. 45-57 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/CeruttiStaddon2004.pdf)

(2004) Staddon, J.E.R., Scientific imperialism and behaviorist epistemology, Behavior and Philosophy, vol. 32, pp. 231-242 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2004/19Staddon.pdf)

(2004) Staddon, J.E.R., Editorial: The future, Behavior and Philosophy, 32, 2pp. 43-245 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2004/07_Staddon.pdf)

(2004) Ludvig, E.A., & Staddon, J.E.R., The conditions for temporal tracking on interval schedules of reinforcement, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, vol. 30 no. 4, pp. 299-316 (Preprint: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1473024)

(2003) Staddon, J.E.R., Cerutti, D. T., Operant conditioning, Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 54, pp. 115-144 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/StaddonCerutti2003.pdf)

(2001) Staddon, J.E.R., Editorial: Science as politics by other means: Fact and analysis in an ethical world, Behavior and Philosophy, vol. 29 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2001/factval.pdf)

(2001) John Staddon. The trouble with Stanley. A review of “The trouble with principle” by Stanley Fish, 1999. Behavior and Philosophy, 29, 75-78 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/2001/staddon.pdf)

(2000) Cerutti, D.T., Chelaru, I.M, & Staddon, J.E.R, Detecting hidden targets: A procedure for studying performance in a mine-detection-like-task, in Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets, edited by Abinash, C. Dubey, James F. Harvey, J. Thomas Broach, and Regina E. Dugan, pp. 102-109, Washington, D.C.: SPIE (Preprint: http://www.ee.duke.edu/~lcarin/DeminingMURI/MineSim01.pdf)

(1999) Staddon, J.E.R, On responsibility in science and law, in Responsibility, edited by E.F. Paul, F.D. Miller, J. Paul, pp. 146-174, Cambridge University Press (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/responR.pdf)

(1999) Staddon, J.E.R. & Higa, J.J., Time and memory: Towards a pacemaker-free theory of interval timing, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 71, pp. 215-251 (http://seab.envmed.rochester.edu/jeab/articles/1999/jeab-71-02-0215.pdf)

(1998) Staddon, J.E.R, Editorial: Instinct and the operant, Behavior and Philosophy, 26, pp. 1-3 (http://www.behavior.org/journals_BP/1998/editorial.pdf)

(1995) Staddon, J.E.R., On responsibility and punishment, The Atlantic Monthly, Feb., pp. 88-94 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/RESPUN.pdf)

(1993) Higa, J. J., Thaw, J. M., & Staddon, J. E. R, Pigeons' wait-time responses to transitions in interfood-interval duration: another look at cyclic schedule performance, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 59, pp. 529-541 ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&blobtype=pdf&artid=1322135)

(1990) Staddon, J. E. R., & Reid, A. K, On the dynamics of generalization, Psychological Review, vol. 97, pp. 576-578 (http://webs.wofford.edu/reidak/Pubs/Staddon%20and%20Reid%201990.pdf)

(1975) Kello, J. E., Innis, N. K., & Staddon, J. E. R, Eccentric stimuli on multiple fixed-interval schedules, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 23, pp. 233-240 ( http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1333344&blobtype=pdf)

(1973) Malone, J. C., & Staddon, J. E. R, Contrast effects in maintained generalization gradients, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 19, pp. 167-179 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/RESPUN.pdf)

Working papers and drafts:

(2003) John Staddon. Have race-biased admissions improved American higher education? A critique of Patricia Gurin’s expert report on the benefits of diversity at the University of Michigan (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/GurinCrit.pdf)

(2002) John Staddon. The old behaviorism. A response to William Baum’s review of “The new behaviorism” (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/response.pdf)

(1999) Staddon, J.E.R, On responsibility in science and law, Social Philosophy and Policy, 16, 146-174. Reprinted in Responsibility, edited by E.F. Paul, F.D. Miller, & J. Paul, pp. 146-174, Cambridge University Press (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/responR.pdf)

(1997) John Staddon. Who should pay for science? Essay review of “The economic laws of scientific research” by T. Kealey. Reason, February,64-65 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/kealey.pdf)

(1995) Staddon, J.E.R., On responsibility and punishment, The Atlantic Monthly, Feb., pp. 88-94 (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/RESPUN.pdf)

(----) John E.R. Staddon, Fair profiling (http://psychweb.psych.duke.edu/department/jers/Profiling.pdf)

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