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D-Index
56
Citations
12932
World Ranking
4195
National Ranking
2341

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1981 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

John Staddon is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their scholarly work spans psychology and behavioral studies, intersecting with history and philosophy of science. Staddon's research output includes topics such as behavioral and psychological studies, child and animal learning development, academic and historical perspectives in psychology, sensory analysis and statistical methods, and the history of science and medicine.

Key subfields of Staddon's research are developmental and educational psychology, history and philosophy of science, general psychology, and food science.

Staddon has contributed articles to several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include Academic Questions, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, SSRN Electronic Journal, and The Psychological Record. Below are selected recent papers authored by Staddon:

  • The dynamics of behavior: Review of Sutton and Barto: Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2nd ed.) (2020), Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • The Role of Theory in Behavior Analysis: A Response to Unfinished Business, Travis Thompson's Review of Staddon's New Behaviorism (2nd edition) (2020), The Psychological Record
  • Diverse Identities Are Irrelevant to Science (2023), Academic Questions
  • Whatever Happened to History of Science? How Scholarship Became Politicized Story-Telling (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Facts vs. Passion: The Debate over Science-Based Regulation (2020), Academic Questions

Staddon has collaborated with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter Morcombe
  • Armando Machado

Staddon's contributions have been recognized by professional societies. They were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1985 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1981.

Best Publications

  • The "supersitition" experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior.

    J. E. R. Staddon;Virginia L. Simmelhag

  • Adaptive behavior and learning

    J. E. R. Staddon

  • Handbook of operant behavior

    Werner K. Honig;J. E. R. Staddon

  • Limits to action, the allocation of individual behavior

    J. E. R. Staddon

  • Time and memory: Towards a pacemaker-free theory of interval timing.

    J. E. R. Staddon;J. J. Higa

  • Transitive inference formation in pigeons.

    Lorenzo von Fersen;Clive D. Wynne;Clive D. Wynne;Juan D. Delius;Juan D. Delius;John E. Staddon

  • Operant behavior as adaptation to constraint.

    J. E. Staddon

  • The New Behaviorism

    J. E. R. Staddon

  • On matching and maximizing in operant choice experiments.

    J. E. Staddon;Susan Motheral

  • Hill-climbing by pigeons

    John M. Hinson;J. E. R. Staddon

  • Sequential and Temporal Properties of Behavior Induced By a Schedule of Periodic Food Delivery

    J.E.R. Staddon;Sandra L. Ayres

  • Adaptive dynamics : the theoretical analysis of behavior

    John E. R. Staddon

  • MULTIPLE TIME SCALES IN SIMPLE HABITUATION

    J. E. R. Staddon;J. J. Higa

  • On sequential effects in absolute judgment experiments.

    J. E. Staddon;Michael King;Gregory R. Lockhead

  • DIFFERENTIAL VOCALIZATION IN BUDGERIGARS: TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF NAMING

    Kazuchika Manabe;Takashi Kawashima;J. E. R. Staddon

  • Some properties of spaced responding in pigeons.

    J. E. R. Staddon

  • On Herrnstein's equation and related forms.

    J. E. R. Staddon

  • Reinforcement omission on fixed-interval schedules.

    J. E. R. Staddon;Nancy K. Innis

  • MATCHING, MAXIMIZING, AND HILL-CLIMBING

    John M. Hinson;J. E. R. Staddon

  • Behaviorism : mind, mechanism and society

    J. E. R. Staddon

  • Issues in the ecological study of learning: Edited by Timothy D. Johnston & Alexandra T. Pietrewicz. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum (1985). Pp. xi+451. Price $49.95

    J.E.R. Staddon

Frequent Co-Authors

Clive D. L. Wynne
Clive D. L. Wynne Arizona State University
Meredith J. West
Meredith J. West Indiana University
Erol Gelenbe
Erol Gelenbe Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics
Stephen E. G. Lea
Stephen E. G. Lea University of Exeter

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