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J. E. R. Staddon
Born
John Eric Rayner Staddon

(1937-03-19) 19 March 1937 (age 87)
NationalityBritish-American
AwardsGuggenheim Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences Fellow, American Psychological Society, Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Med Associates Distinguished Contributions to Basic Behavior Analysis Award, 2018.
Academic background
Alma materUniversity College London
Hollins College
Harvard University
ThesisThe effect of "knowledge of results" on timing behavior in the pigeon (1964)
Academic work
DisciplinePsychology
Sub-disciplinePsychobiology

John Eric Rayner Staddon (born 19 March 1937) is a British-born American psychologist. He has been a critic of Skinnerian behaviorism and proposed a theoretically-based "New Behaviorism".[1] John Staddon conducted theoretical behaviorism research in adaptive function, mechanisms of learning, and optimality theories. He completed his graduate work at the Skinner Lab in Harvard in the 1960s, with Richard Herrnstein.[2]

Life and career

Educated first at University College London, a three-year period interrupted by two years[3] 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.[4]

Books

References

  1. ^ "J. E. R. Staddon - Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press". Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  2. ^ Innis, Nancy K., ed. (2 May 2008). Reflections on Adaptive Behavior: Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon. The MIT Press. doi:10.7551/mitpress/7883.001.0001. ISBN 9780262276023.
  3. ^ Staddon, John (2016). The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist. Legend Press Ltd. p. 106. ISBN 9781908684660.
  4. ^ "John E. R. Staddon".

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