John E. R. Staddon

James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience
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Ph.D., Harvard University 1964
Overview
Until my retirement in 2007, my laboratory did experimental research on learning and adaptive behavior, mostly with animals: pigeons, rats, fish, parakeets. We were particularly interested in timing and memory, feeding regulation, habituation and the ways in which pigeons and rats adapt to reward schedules. The aim is to arrive at simple models for learning that can help to identify the underlying neural mechanisms. I continue to do theoretical and historical work on the power law in psychophysics, operant learning, timing and memory, habituation and feeding regulation. I have applied some of these ideas to economics and financial markets and social issues such as traffic control (Distracting Miss Daisy, The Atlantic, 2008) and smoking (Unlucky Strike, Private Health and the Science, Law and Politics of Smoking, with David Hockney, UBP, 2013). A second edition of Adaptive Behavior and Learning (Cambridge UP) was published in 2016. Most recently I have Scientific Method: How Science Works, Fails to Work, and Pretends to Work. to be published by Routledge in December.
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HORNER, JM, and STADDON, JER. "CHOICE ON PROBABILISTIC SCHEDULES - A REWARD-FOLLOWING ANALYSIS." BULLETIN OF THE PSYCHONOMIC SOCIETY 23.4 (1985): 304-304.
STADDON, JER. "BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS - ALLISON,J." CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY 30.6 (1985): 465-466. Full Text
Staddon, JER. "It's all a game." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7.01 (March 1984): 116-116. Full Text
STADDON, JER. "REINFORCEMENT IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION - VARIATION AND SELECTION OF BEHAVIOR." BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES 7.4 (1984): 697-699. Full Text
STADDON, JER. "STATIC AND DYNAMIC COMPETITION." BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES 9.1 (1984): 98-99.
Thinés, G, and Staddon, JE. "Editorial." Behavioural processes 9.1 (January 1984): 1-. Full Text
Staddon, JE. "Social learning theory and the dynamics of interaction." Psychological Review 91.4 (1984): 502-507. Full Text
GENDRON, RP, and STADDON, JER. "A LABORATORY SIMULATION OF FORAGING BEHAVIOR - THE EFFECT OF SEARCH RATE ON THE PROBABILITY OF DETECTING PREY." AMERICAN NATURALIST 124.3 (1984): 407-415. Full Text
STADDON, JER. "SOCIAL-LEARNING THEORY AND THE DYNAMICS OF INTERACTION." PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW 91.4 (1984): 502-507. Full Text
STADDON, JER. "TIME AND MEMORY." ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 423.MAY (1984): 322-334. Full Text