Staddon, John (E. R.)

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STADDON, John (E. R.)

STADDON, John (E. R.). American, b. 1937. Genres: Psychology. Career: Harvard University, researcher at Electronic Systems Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962-63; University of Toronto, ON, Canada, assistant professor of psychology, 1964-67; Duke University, Durham, NC, assistant professor to professor of psychology, 1979-, zoology, 1983-, and neurobiology, 1988-, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology, 1983-, head of department, 1985-87. Publications: (ed. with W.K. Honig, and contrib.) Handbook of Operant Behavior, 1977; (ed. and contrib.) Limits to Action: The Allocation of Individual Behavior, 1980; Adaptive Behavior and Learning, 1983; Learning: An Introduction to the Principles of Adaptive Behavior, 1989; (ed. with M.L. Commons and S. Grossberg, and contrib.) Neural Networks of Conditioning and Action, 1991; The New Behaviorism, 2001; Adaptive Dynamics, 2001. Contributor to books. Contributor to scientific journals and popular magazines. Address: Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Box 90086, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]