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J. E. R. Staddon | |
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| Born | John Eric Rayner Staddon 19 March 1937 |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences Fellow, American Psychological Society, Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Med Associates Distinguished Contributions to Basic Behavior Analysis Award, 2018. |
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| Alma mater | University College London Hollins College Harvard University |
| Thesis | The effect of "knowledge of results" on timing behavior in the pigeon (1964) |
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| Discipline | Psychobiology |
| Sub-discipline | Philosophy |
John Eric Rayner Staddon (born 1937) is a British-born American psychologist. He has been a critic of Skinnerian behaviorism and proposed a theoretically-based "New Behaviorism".
Educated first at University College London, a three-year period interrupted by two years[1] in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. After graduation from UCL, he went to the U. S., to Hollins College in Hollins, Virginia for a year, and then to Harvard University where he studied under Richard Herrnstein, obtaining his PhD in Experimental Psychology in 1964 with a thesis The effect of "knowledge of results" on timing behavior in the pigeon.
Staddon has done research at the MIT Systems Lab, the University of Oxford, the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Ruhr Universität, Universität Konstanz, the University of Western Australia and York University (U.K.) and taught at the University of Toronto from 1964 to 1967.
Since 1967, Staddon has been at Duke University; since 1983 he has been the James B. Duke Professor of psychology, and a professor of biology and neurobiology. He was an editor of the journals Behavioural Processes (1983-2002) and Behavior & Philosophy (1996-2004). Since 2007, he has been professor emeritus at Duke University.
