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D-Index
44
Citations
12369
World Ranking
4034
National Ranking
1922

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1968 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William M. Baum is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily encompasses the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a strong focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Social Psychology.

The scope of their scientific inquiry covers several main topics, including Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Child and Animal Learning Development, Plant and animal studies, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

William M. Baum has published extensively in several venues, most notably contributing 11 articles to the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Other publication venues include the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems 2021, Behavioural Processes, Perspectives on Behavior Science, and Evolutionary Human Sciences.

Some of the recent papers authored by Baum include:

  • Response-reinforcer contiguity versus response-rate-reinforcer-rate covariance in rats' lever pressing: Support for a multiscale view (2020), Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Avoidance, induction, and the illusion of reinforcement (2020), Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Matching theory and induction explain operant performance (2020), Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Matching, induction, and covariance with mixed response-contingent food and noncontingent food (2021), Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • Resistance to extinction versus extinction as discrimination (2021), Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Frequent co-authors collaborate with Baum on various research projects. These include Carlos F. Aparício, Randolph C. Grace, Benigno Alonso-Álvarez, Christopher A. Podlesnik, and Matthew C. Bell.

In 1968, William M. Baum was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • On two types of deviation from the matching law: bias and undermatching

    William M. Baum

  • Choice as time allocation.

    William M. Baum;Howard C. Rachlin;Howard C. Rachlin

  • Matching, undermatching, and overmatching in studies of choice.

    William M. Baum

  • The correlation-based law of effect.

    William M. Baum

  • Understanding Behaviorism: Behavior, Culture, and Evolution

    William M. Baum

  • Understanding Behaviorism: Science, Behavior, and Culture

    William M. Baum

  • Applying evolutionary models to the laboratory study of social learning

    Richard McElreath;Mark Lubell;Peter J. Richerson;Timothy M. Waring

  • Optimization and the matching law as accounts of instrumental behavior.

    William M. Baum

  • Rethinking reinforcement: Allocation, induction, and contingency.

    William M. Baum

  • FROM MOLECULAR TO MOLAR: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS

    William M. Baum

  • Choice in a variable environment: every reinforcer counts.

    Michael Davison;William M. Baum

  • Choice in Free-Ranging Wild Pigeons

    William M. Baum

  • Choice, changeover, and travel.

    William M. Baum

  • Cultural evolution in laboratory microsocieties including traditions of rule giving and rule following

    William M. Baum;Peter J. Richerson;Charles M. Efferson;Brian M. Paciotti

  • Time allocation in human vigilance

    William M. Baum

  • Do Conditional Reinforcers Count

    Michael Davison;William M. Baum

  • Behaviorism, private events, and the molar view of behavior.

    William M Baum

  • Feedback functions for variable-interval reinforcement

    John A. Nevin;William M. Baum

  • Understanding behaviorism: Behavior, culture, and evolution, 2nd ed.

    William M. Baum

  • Molar and molecular views of choice.

    William M Baum

  • Behavioral explanations and intentional explanations in psychology.

    William M. Baum;Jennifer L. Heath

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Davison
Michael Davison University of Auckland
Howard Rachlin
Howard Rachlin Stony Brook University
Mark Lubell
Mark Lubell University of California, Davis
Richard McElreath
Richard McElreath Max Planck Society
Randolph C. Grace
Randolph C. Grace University of Canterbury
Suzanne H. Mitchell
Suzanne H. Mitchell Oregon Health & Science University
John A. Nevin
John A. Nevin University of New Hampshire
Peter J. Richerson
Peter J. Richerson University of California, Davis
Jesse Dallery
Jesse Dallery University of Florida

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