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  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Michael Domjan is a researcher affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States, specializing primarily in the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and molecular biology.

Their recent scholarly output includes publications in notable venues such as Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Archives of Sexual Behavior, and Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. Specific recent papers include:

  • Pavlovian or associative sensitization and its biological significance, 2024, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Compulsive Conditioned Sexual Responding of Male Japanese Quail in Extinction, 2021, Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • The elegant complexity of fear in non-human animals, 2022, Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Michael Domjan has contributed to the understanding of main topics such as neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, stress responses and cortisol, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, receptor mechanisms and signaling, animal behavior and reproduction, and primate behavior and ecology.

Their frequent collaborators include Andrew R. Delamater, with whom Domjan has co-authored extensively, as well as Michael S. Fanselow, Mark A. Krause, Falih Köksal, and Gülsen Kumru.

Their research has been disseminated through various publication venues, notably:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Michael Domjan has also contributed to academic literature in book form, with a recent publication titled "The essentials of conditioning and learning (5th ed.)" published by the American Psychological Association in 2023.

Among recognitions, Domjan was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1986.

Best Publications

  • The principles of learning and behavior

    Michael Domjan

  • Pavlovian conditioning: a functional perspective

    Michael P Domjan

  • Learning mechanisms in food selection

    Lewis M. Barker;Michael R. Best;Michael Domjan

  • The behavior of the Japanese or domestic quail Coturnix japonica.

    Andrew D. Mills;Lawrence L. Crawford;Michael Domjan;Jean Michel Faure

  • Biological constraints on instrumental and classical conditioning: retrospect and prospect

    Michael P Domjan;Bennett G. Galef

  • Backward conditoning as an inhibitory procedure

    Shepard Siegel;Michael Domjan

  • Sexual Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior in male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica).

    Michael P Domjan;R. Lyons;N. C. North;J. Bruell

  • Ingestional Aversion Learning: Unique and General Processes

    Michael P Domjan

  • Determinants of the enhancement of flavored-water intake by prior exposure.

    Michael P Domjan

  • Specificity of cue to consequence in aversion learning in the rat

    Michael P Domjan;Nancy E. Wilson

  • The essentials of conditioning and learning

    Michael P. Domjan

  • Biological constraints on instrumental and classical conditioning: implications for general process theory

    Michael Domjan

  • Formulation of a behavior system for sexual conditioning.

    Michael Domjan

  • The nature of sexual reinforcement.

    Lawrence L. Crawford;Kevin S. Holloway;Michael P Domjan

  • Topography of Sexually Conditioned Behavior in Male Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica) Depends on the CS-US Interval

    C. K. Akins;Michael P Domjan;G. Gutiérrez

  • Poison-induced neophobia in rats: Role of stimulus generalization of conditioned taste aversions

    Michael Domjan

  • CS preexposure in taste-aversion learning: Effects of deprivation and preexposure duration

    Michael P Domjan

  • Contextual conditioning and the control of copulatory behavior by species-specific sign stimuli in male Japanese quail.

    M Domjan;P Greene;N C North

  • Determinants of social proximity in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica): male behavior.

    Michael Domjan;Stuart Hall

  • Contribution of ingestive behaviors to taste-aversion learning in the rat.

    Michael Domjan;Nancy E. Wilson

  • The principles of learning and behavior, 4th ed.

    Michael Domjan

Frequent Co-Authors

Shepard Siegel
Shepard Siegel McMaster University
Bennett G. Galef
Bennett G. Galef McMaster University
Peter R. Killeen
Peter R. Killeen Arizona State University

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