Publications of John Staddon     :recent first  combined  bibtex listing:

Journal Articles

  1. J. E. R. Staddon (1964). Reinforcement as input: Cyclic variable-interval schedule. Science, 145, 410-412.
  2. Staddon, J.E.R (1965). Some properties of spaced responding in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 8, 19-27.
  3. Staddon, J. E. R., & Innis, N. K (1966). Preference for fixed vs. variable amounts of reward. Psychonomic Science, 4, 193-194.
  4. Staddon, J. E. R., & Innis, N. K (1966). An effect analogous to “frustration” on interval reinforcement schedules. Psychonomic Science,, 4, 287-288.
  5. Staddon, J.E.R (1967). Asymptotic behavior: The concept of the operant. Psychological Review, 74, 377-391.
  6. Staddon, J.E.R (1967). Attention and temporal discrimination: Factors controlling responding under a cyclic-interval schedule. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 10, 349-359.
  7. Staddon, J.E.R (1968). Spaced responding and choice: A preliminary analysis. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 11, 669-682.
  8. Staddon, J. E. R., & Innis, N. K (1969). Reinforcement omission on fixed-interval schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12, 689-700.
  9. Staddon, J.E.R (1969). Multiple fixed-interval schedules: Transient contrast and temporal inhibition. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12, 583-590.
  10. Staddon, J.E.R (1969). The effect of informative feedback on temporal tracking in the pigeon. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12, 27-38.
  11. Innis, N. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1969). Scopolamine and reinforcement omission on fixed-interval schedules. Psychonomic Science, 14, 43-45.
  12. Staddon, J. E. R., & Simmelhag, V (1970). “Superstitious” sequences. Proceedings of the 78th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, 757-758.
  13. Innis, N. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1970). Sequential effects in cyclic-interval schedules. Psychonomic Science, 19, 313-315.
  14. Staddon, J.E.R (1970). Temporal effects of reinforcement: A negative “frustration” effect. Learning and Motivation, 1, 227-247.
  15. Staddon, J.E.R (1970). Effect of reinforcement duration on fixed-interval responding.. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 13, 9-11.
  16. Staddon, J. E. R., & Simmelhag, V (1971). The “superstition” experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior. Psychological Review, 78, 3-43.
  17. Innis, N. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1971). Temporal tracking on cyclic-interval reinforcement schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 16, 411-423.
  18. Staddon, J.E.R (1972). Reinforcement omission on temporal go–no-go schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 18, 223-229.
  19. Staddon, J.E.R (1972). A note on the analysis of behavioral sequences in Columba livia. Animal Behaviour, 20, 284-292.
  20. Malone, J. C., & Staddon, J. E. R (1973). Contrast effects in maintained generalization gradients. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 19, 167-179.
  21. Starr, B., & Staddon, J. E. R (1974). Temporal control on fixed-interval schedules: Signal properties of reinforcement and blackout. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 22, 535-545.
  22. Staddon, J. E. R., & Frank, J (1974). Mechanisms of discrimination reversal. Animal Behaviour, 22, 802-828.
  23. Kello, J. E., & Staddon, J. E. R (1974). Control of long-interval performance on mixed cyclic- interval schedules. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 4, 1-4.
  24. Frank, J., & Staddon, J. E. R (1974). The effects of restraint on temporal discrimination behavior. Psychological Record, 23, 123-130.
  25. Staddon, J.E.R (1974). Temporal control, attention and memory. Psychological Review, 81, 375-391.
  26. Kello, J. E., Innis, N. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1975). Eccentric stimuli on multiple fixed-interval schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 23, 233-240.
  27. Staddon, J. E. R., & Frank, J. A (1975). Temporal control on periodic schedules: Fine structure. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 6(5), 536-538.
  28. Staddon, J. E. R., & Frank, J (1975). The role of the peck-food contingency on fixed-interval schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 23, 17-23.
  29. Staddon, J. E. R., & Ayres, S (1975). Sequential and temporal properties of behavior induced by a schedule of periodic food delivery. Behaviour, 54, 26-49.
  30. Staddon, J.E.R (1975). Limitations on temporal control: Generalization and the effects of context. British Journal of Psychology, 66, 229-246.
  31. Staddon, J.E.R (1977). Temporal fine structure of bird song. Proceedings of the XVth International Ethological Conference, 156.
  32. Staddon, J. E. R., McGeorge, L. W., Bruce, R. A., & Klein, F. F (1978). A simple method for the rapid analysis of animal sounds. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 48, 306-330.
  33. Staddon, J. E. R., & Motheral, S (1978). On matching and maximizing in operant choice experiments. Psychological Review, 85, 436-444.
  34. Hinson, J. M., & Staddon, J. E. R (1978). Behavioral competition: A mechanism for schedule interactions. Science, 202, 432-434.
  35. Staddon, J.E.R (1978). A theory of behavioral power functions. Psychological Review, 85, 305-320.
  36. West, M. J., King, A. P., Eastzer, D. H., & Staddon, J. E. R (1979). A bioassay of isolate cowbird song. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 93, 124-133.
  37. Staddon, J. E. R., & Motheral, S (1979). Response independence, matching, and maximizing: A reply to Heyman. Psychological Review, 86, 501-505.
  38. Staddon, J.E.R (1979). Operant behavior as adaptation to constraint. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 108, 48-67.
  39. Staddon, J.E.R (1979). Conservation and consequences—theories of behavior under constraint: An overview. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 108, 1-3.
  40. Staddon, J. E. R., King, M. & Lockhead, G. R (1980). On sequential effects in absolute judgment experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2, 290-301.
  41. Blaine, C., Innis, N. K. & Staddon, J. E. R (1980). Stimulus control of behavior induced by a schedule of periodic food presentation in pigeons. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 16, 131-134.
  42. Staddon, J. E. R., Hinson, J. M., & Kram, R (1981). Optimal choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 35, 397-412.
  43. King, A. P., West, M. J., Eastzer, D. H., & Staddon, J. E. R (1981). An experimental investigation of the bioacoustics of cowbird song. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 9, 211-217.
  44. Houston, A. I., & Staddon, J. E. R (1981). Optimality principles in behavior: It's all for the best. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 395-396.
  45. Hinson, J. M., & Staddon, J. E. R (1981). Some temporal properties of local contrast. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 1, 275-281.
  46. Staddon, J.E.R (1981). ). Cognition in animals: Learning as program assembly. Cognition, 10, 287-294.
  47. Starr, B. C., & Staddon, J. E. R (1982). Sensory superstition on multiple interval schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 37, 267-280.
  48. Reid, A. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1982). Schedule-induced drinking: Elicitation, anticipation, or behavioral interaction?. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 38, 1-18.
  49. Ettinger, R. H., & Staddon, J. E. R (1982). Decreased feeding associated with acute hypoxia in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 29, 455-458.
  50. Ettinger, R. H., & Staddon, J. E. R (1982). Behavioral competition, component duration and multiple-schedule contrast. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 2, 31-38.
  51. Staddon, J.E.R (1983). Sobre a nocão de causa: aplicacões ao caso do Behaviorismo. . Cadernos de História e Filosofia da Ciência, 4, 48-92. (Translation of Staddon, 1973, by C. Ades).
  52. Innis, N. K., Simmelhag-Grant, V. L., & Staddon, J. E. R (1983). Behavior induced by periodic food delivery: The effects of interfood interval. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 39, 309-322.
  53. Staddon, J. E. R., & Hinson, J. M (1983). Optimization: A result or a mechanism?. Science, 221, 976-977.
  54. Staddon, J. E. R., & Gendron, R. P (1983). Optimal detection of cryptic prey may lead to predator switching. American Naturalist, 122, 843-848.
  55. Gendron, R. P., & Staddon, J. E. R (1983). Searching for cryptic prey: The effect of search rate. American Naturalist, 121, 172-186.
  56. Ettinger, R. H., & Staddon, J. E. R (1983). The operant regulation of feeding: A static analysis. Behavioral Neuroscience, 97, 639-653.
  57. Hinson, J. M., & Staddon, J. E. R (1983). Matching, maximizing and hill climbing. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 40, 321-331.
  58. Hinson, J. M., & Staddon, J. E. R (1983). Hill-climbing by pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 39, 25-47.
  59. Gendron, R. P., & Staddon, J. E. R (1984). A laboratory simulation of foraging behavior: The effect of search rate on the probability of detecting prey. American Naturalist, 124, 407-415.
  60. Staddon, J.E.R (1984). Social learning theory and the dynamics of interaction. Psychological Review, 91, 502-507.
  61. Staddon, J.E.R (1984). Time and memory. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 423, 322-334.
  62. Staddon, J.E.R (1986). Igualación, maximización y seguimiento de la recompensa. Revista Latinamericana Psicologia, 18, 367-386.
  63. Ettinger, R. H., Thompson, S., & Staddon, J. E. R (1986). Cholecystokinin, lithium chloride, and feeding regulation in rats. Physiology and Behavior, 36, 801-809.
  64. Ettinger, R. H., Reid. A. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1987). Sensitivity to molar feedback functions: A test of molar optimality theory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 13, 366-375.
  65. Reid, A. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1987). Within-session meal-size effects on drinking. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 48, 289-301.
  66. Horner, J. M., & Staddon, J. E. R (1987). Probabilistic choice: A simple invariance. Behavioural Processes, 15, 59-92.
  67. Staddon, J.E.R (1987). Science and pseudoscience. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 12, 114-116.
  68. Staddon, J.E.R (1988). Trial-and-error learning as a scheduling problem. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual AAAIC Conference, 2, 295-303.
  69. Staddon, J.E.R (1988). On the process of reinforcement. Behavioral and Brain Sciences., 11, 467-469.
  70. Wynne, C. D. L., & Staddon, J. E. R (1988). Typical delay determines waiting time on periodic-food schedules: static and dynamic tests. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 50, 197-210.
  71. Staddon, J.E.R (1988). Quasi-dynamic choice models: melioration and ratio-invariance. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 49, 303-320.
  72. Staddon, J. E. R., & Zhang, Y (1989). Response selection in operant learning. Behavioural Processes, 20, 189-197.
  73. Innis, N. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1989). What should comparative psychology compare?. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2, 145-156.
  74. Staddon, J. E. R., & Horner, J. M (1989). Stochastic choice models: A comparison between Bush-Mosteller and a source-independent reward-following model. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 52, 57-64.
  75. Fersen, L. von, Wynne, C. D. L., Delius, J. D., & Staddon, J. E. R (1990). Deductive reasoning in pigeons. Naturwissenschafften, 77, 548-549.
  76. Staddon, J. E. R., & Reid, A. K (1990). On the dynamics of generalization. Psychological Review, 97, 576-578.
  77. Higa, J. J., Wynne, C. D. L., & Staddon, J. E. R (1991). Dynamics of time discrimination. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 17, 281-291.
  78. Staddon, J. E. R., & Bueno, J.L.O (1991). On models, behaviorism and the neural basis of learning. Psychological Science, 2, 3-11.
  79. Fersen, L. von, Wynne, C. D. L., Delius, J. D., & Staddon, J. E. R (1991). Transitive inference formation in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 17, 334-341.
  80. Staddon, J. E. R., Wynne, C. D. L. & Higa, J. J (1991). The role of timing in reinforcement schedule performance. Learning and Motivation, 22, 200-225.
  81. Wynne, C. D. L. & Staddon, J. E. R (1992). Waiting in pigeons: The effects of daily intercalation on temporal discrimination. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 58, 47-66.
  82. Staddon, J.E.R (1992). The 'superstition' experiment: A reversible figure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 121, 270-272.
  83. Kohn, A, Kohn, W. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (1992). Preferences for constant-duration delays and constant-sized rewards in human subjects. Behavioural Processes, 26, 125-142.
  84. Staddon, J.E.R (1992). Rationality, melioration and law-of-effect models for choice. Psychological Science, 3, 136-141.
  85. Innis, N. K., Mitchell, S., & Staddon, J. E. R (1993). Temporal control on interval schedules: What determines the postreinforcement pause?. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60, 293-311.
  86. Staddon, J.E.R (1993). The conventional wisdom of behavior analysis: Response to comments. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60, 489-494.
  87. Staddon, J.E.R (1993). The conventional wisdom of behavior analysis. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 60, 439-447.
  88. Davis, D. G. S., Staddon, J. E. R., Machado, A., & Palmer, R. G (1993). The process of recurrent choice. Psychological Review, 100, 320-341.
  89. Staddon, J.E.R (1993). On rate-sensitive habituation. Adaptive Behavior, 1, 421-436.
  90. Higa, J. J., Thaw, J. M., & Staddon, J. E. R (1993). Pigeons' wait-time responses to transitions in interfood-interval duration: another look at cyclic schedule performance. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 59, 529-541.
  91. Higa, J. J., & Staddon, J. E. R (1993). "Transitive inference" in multiple conditional discriminations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 59, 265-291.
  92. Staddon, J.E.R. (1995). Schedule combinations and choice: experiment and theory. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 21, 163-274.
  93. Staddon, J.E.R (1995). Combinaciones de programas y elección: experimentos y teoria. Revista Mexicana de Análisis de la Conducta, 21, 169-281. (Translation of: Schedule combinations and choice: experiment and theory that appeared in "Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis," vol.21).
  94. Delius, J. D., Ameling, M., Lea, S. E. G., & Staddon, J. E. R (1995). Reinforcement concordance induces and maintains stimulus associations in pigeons. The Psychological Record, 45, 283-297.
  95. Manabe, K., Kawashima, T. & Staddon, J. E. R (1995). Differential vocalization in budgerigars: Towards an experimental analysis of naming. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 63, 111-126.
  96. Staddon, J.E.R. & Higa, J.J. (1996). Multiple time scales in simple habituation. Psychological Review, 103, 720-733.
  97. Wynne, C. D. L., Staddon, J. E. R., & Delius, J. (1996). Dynamics of waiting in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 65, 603-618.
  98. Gelenbe, E., Schmajuk, N., Staddon, J.E.R., & Reif, J. (1997). Autonomous search by robots and animals: a survey. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 22, 23-34.
  99. Horner, J.M., Staddon, J.E.R., & Lozano, K.L. (1997). Integration of reinforcement effects over time. Animal Learning and Behavior, 25, 84-98.
  100. Reid, A.K. & Staddon, J.E.R. (1997). A reader for the cognitive map. Information Sciences, 100, 217-228.
  101. Manabe, K., Staddon, J.E.R., & Cleaveland, M. (1997). Control of vocal repertoire by reward in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 111, 50-62.
  102. Reid, A. & Staddon, J.E.R. (1998). A dynamic route-finder for the cognitive map. Psychological Review, 105, 385-601.
  103. Dragoi, V. & Staddon, J.E.R. (1999). The Dynamics of Operant Conditioning. Psychological Review, 106, 20-61. ((Winner of the 1999 Brenda J. Milner Award of the APA)).
  104. Staddon, J.E.R., Higa, J.J. & Chelaru, I.M. (1999). Time, Trace, Memory. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 293-301.
  105. Talton, L., Higa, J.J., & Staddon, J.E.R. (1999). Interval Schedule Performance in the Goldfish (Carassius auratus). Behavioural Processes, 45, 193-206.
  106. Staddon, J.E.R. & Higa, J.J. (1999). The Choose-Short Effect and Trace Theories of Timing. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 72, 473-8.
  107. Staddon, J. E. R. & Higa, J. J. (1999). Time and memory: Towards a pacemaker-free theory of interval timing.. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 293-301.  [abs] [author's comments]
  108. Staddon, J.E.R. & Higa, J.J. (1999). Time and memory: Towards a pacemaker-free theory of interval timing. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 215-251.  [abs] [author's comments]
  109. Staddon, J.E.R. (2000). Consciousness and Theoretical Behaviorism. American Zoologist, 40, 874-882.
  110. Staddon, J.E.R., Machado, A., & Lourenco, O. (2001). Plus ca change....Jost, Piaget and the Dynamics of Embodiment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 63-65.
  111. Staddon, J.E.R., Chelaru, I.M., & Higa, J.J. (2002). A Tuned-Trace Theory of Interval-Timing Dynamics. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 77, 105-124.
  112. Staddon, J.E.R., Chelaru, I.M., & Higa, J.J. (2002). Habituation, Memory and the Brain: The Dynamics of Interval Timing. Behavioural Processes, 57, 71-88.  [abs]
  113. Staddon, J. E. R. & Cerutti, D. T. (2003). Operant behavior.. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 115-144.  [abs]
  114. Staddon, J.E.R., Cerutti, D. T. (2003). Operant behavior. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 115-144.
  115. Dragoi, V., Staddon, J.E.R., Palmer, R.G., & Buhusi, V.C. (2003). Interval timing as an emergent learning property. Psychological Review, 110, 126-144.
  116. Staddon, J.E.R. (2004). Scientific imperialism and behaviorist epistemology.. Philosophy & Behavior, 32, 231-242.  [abs]
  117. Cerutti, D.T., & Staddon, J.E.R. (2004). Time and rate measures in choice transitions. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 81, 135-154.
  118. Cerutti, D.T., & Staddon, J.E.R. (2004). Immediacy vs. anticipated delay in the time-left experiment: A test of the cognitive hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30, 45-57.
  119. Ludvig, E.A., & Staddon, J.E.R. (2004). The conditions for temporal tracking on interval schedules of reinforcement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 30(4), 299-316.
  120. Jozefowiez, J., Cerutti, D.T., & Staddon, J.E.R. (2005). Timing in choice experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31(2), 213-225..
  121. Ludvig, E.A., & Staddon, J.E.R. (2005). The effects of interval duration on temporal tracking and alternation learning. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 243-262.
  122. J. E. R. Staddon (2005). Interval timing: Memory not a clock. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(7).  [abs]
  123. Zanutto B. S., Staddon J. E. R. (2007). Bang-Bang Control of Feeding: Role of hypothalamic and satiety signals.. PLoS Computional Biology, 3(5): e97. [journal.pcbi.0030097]  [abs]
  124. J. E. R. Staddon, Jozefowiez, J. & Cerutti, D. T. (March 15, 2007). Staddon, J. E. R., (2007) Metacognition: A Problem not a Process. PsyCrit, April. http://psycrit.com/Articles. PsyCrit. [Articles]  [abs]
  125. John Staddon (2008). Gridlock: Research, teaching, curriculum, and the faculty in the modern university.Review of Whatever Happened to the Faculty? Drift and Decision in Higher Education, by Mary Burgan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Academic Questions, 20, 370-381.
  126. John Staddon (July, 2008). Distracting Miss Daisy. The Atlantic, 102-104. [1]  [abs]
  127. Jozefowiez, J,, Staddon, J. E. R. & Cerutti, D. T. (2009). The Behavioral Economics of Choice and Interval Timing. Psychological Review, in press.  [abs]

Books

  1. Staddon, J.E.R (1983). Adaptive behavior and learning.. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Staddon, J. E. R., & Ettinger, R. H (1989). Learning: An introduction to the principles of adaptive behavior.. San Diego: Harcourt-Brace-Jovanovich.
  3. J. Staddon, J.E.R (1993). Behaviorism: Mind, Mechanism and Society.. London: Duckworth.
  4. Staddon, J.E.R. (2001). The New Behaviorism: Mind, Mechanism and Society.. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
  5. Staddon, J.E.R. (2001). Adaptive Dynamics: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior.. Cambridge, MA: MIT/Bradford.
  6. J. E. R. Staddon (2003). Adaptive Behavior and Learning. New Edition of 1983 Cambridge U. P. book. Internet Edition. [htm]
  7. Staddon, J. E. R. (2003). Adaptive behavior and learning.. Second (internet) edition [htm]  [abs]

Chapters in Books

  1. Staddon, J.E.R "Reinforcement omission and contrast on fixed- interval schedules." Proceedings of the XIX International Congress of Psychology. London, England., 1969
  2. Staddon, J.E.R "Temporal control and the theory of reinforcement schedules." Reinforcement: Behavioral analyses. Ed. R. M. Gilbert & J. R. Millenson New York: Academic Press, 1972: 209-262.
  3. Staddon, J.E.R "Learning as adaptation." Handbook of learning and cognitive processes. Ed. W. K. Estes New York: Erlbaum, 1975: 37-98.
  4. Staddon, J.E.R "Schedule-induced behavior." Handbook of operant behavior. Ed. W. K. Honig & J. E. R. Staddon Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977
  5. Staddon, J.E.R "Behavioral competition in conditioning situations: Notes toward a theory of generalization and inhibition." Operant-Pavlovian interactions. Hillsdale. Ed. H. Davis & H. M. B. Hurwitz Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1977
  6. Staddon, J.E.R "Optimality analyses of operant behavior and their relation to optimal foraging." Limits to action: The allocation of individual behavior. Ed. J. E. R. Staddon New York: Academic Press, 1980: 101-141.
  7. Staddon, J.E.R "Obesity and the operant regulation of feeding." The analysis of motivational processes. Ed. F. M. Toates & T. R. Halliday London: Academic Press, 1980
  8. Hinson, J. M. & Staddon, J. E. R "Maximizing on interval schedules." Recent developments in the quantification of steady-state operant behavior. Ed. C. M. Bradshaw, C. F. Lowe, & E. Szabadi Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 1981
  9. Staddon, J.E.R "Reinforcement schedules." The Oxford companion to animal behaviour. Ed. D. J. McFarland Oxford University Press, 1981
  10. Staddon, J.E.R "Operant behavior." The Oxford companion to animal behaviour. Ed. D. J. McFarland Oxford University Press, 1981
  11. Staddon, J.E.R "On a possible relation between cultural transmission and genetical evolution." Advantages of diversity. Ed. P. Klopfer & P. P. G. Bateson Perspectives in ethology: Vol. 4London: Plenum, 1981
  12. Staddon, J.E.R "Behavioral competition, contrast, and matching." Quantitative analyses of operant behavior: Matching and maximizing accounts. Ed. M. L. Commons, R. J. Herrnstein, & H. Rachlin Vol. 2 of Quantitative analyses of behavior, a five-volume seriesCambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1982: 243- 261.
  13. Staddon, J. E. R., & Gendron, R. P "Search image and the optimal detection of cryptic prey." Proceedings of the 18th International Ethological Conference. 1983: 269.
  14. Staddon, J.E.R "On discrimination." How to think straight. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1984
  15. Staddon, J.E.R "The comparative psychology of operant behavior." Behavior analysis and contemporary psychology. Ed. C. F. Lowe, M. Richelle, D. E. Blackman, & C. M. Bradshaw Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1985: 83-94.
  16. Staddon, J.E.R "Inference, memory and representation." Memory systems of the brain: Animal and human cognitive processes. Ed. N.M. Weinberger, J.L. McGaugh & G. Lynch New York: Guilford Publications, 1985: 287-295.
  17. Staddon, J.E.R "Optimality theory and behavior." The latest on the best: Essays on evolution and optimality. Ed. J. Dupré Cambridge, MA: Bradford/MIT Press, 1987: 179-198.
  18. Staddon, J. E. R. & Reid, A. K "Adaptation to reward." Foraging behavior. Ed. A. C. Kamil, J. R. Krebs, & H. R. Pulliam New York: Plenum, 1987: 497-523.
  19. Staddon, J.E.R "Principles of database management." Microcomputers in medicine. Ed. M.J. Geisow & A.N. Barrett Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1987: 55-81.
  20. Staddon, J.E.R "Animal psychology: The tyranny of anthropocentrism." Whither ethology?. Ed. P. Klopfer & P. P. G. Bateson Perspectives in ethology, Vol. 8London: Plenum, 1988: 123-135.
  21. Staddon, J.E.R "Learning as inference." Evolution and learning. Ed. R. C. Bolles, & M.D. Beecher Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1988: 59-77.
  22. Reid, A. K., & Staddon, J. E. R "Mechanisms of schedule entrainment." Neurobiology of behavioural stereotypy. Ed. S. J. Cooper & C. T. Dourish New York: Oxford University Press, 1990
  23. Staddon, J. E. R. & Higa, J. J "Temporal learning." The Psychology of Learning and Motivation. Ed. G. Bower New York: Academic Press, 1991: 265-294.
  24. Staddon, J. E. R. & Zhang, Y "On the assignment-of-credit problem in operant learning." Neural networks of conditioning and action, the XIIth Harvard Symposium. Ed. M. L. Commons, S. Grossberg, & J. E. R. Staddon Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 1991: 279-293.
  25. Staddon, J.E.R "A note on rate-sensitive habituation." Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993: 203-207.
  26. Staddon, J.E.R "Verstärkungsverzögerung und Wahl." Operantes lernen. Ed. W. F. Angermeier, P. Bednorz & S. R. Hursh München: Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, 1994: 208-233.
  27. Staddon, J.E.R "Optimierungs-Analysen des operanten Verhaltens." Operantes lernen. Ed. W. F. Angermeier, P. Bednorz & S. R. Hursh München: Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, 1994: 179-207.
  28. Staddon, J.E.R "Ketten-programme und konditionierte Verstärkung." Operantes lernen. Ed. W. F. Angermeier, P. Bednorz & S. R. Hursh München: Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, 1994: 167-178.
  29. Dragoi, V., & Staddon, J. E. R "A competitive neural network model for the process of recurrent choice." Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994: 65-72.
  30. Staddon, J.E.R. & Zanutto, B.S "Feeding dynamics: why rats eat in meals and what this means for foraging and feeding regulation." Learning, motivation and cognition: the functional behaviorism of Robert C. Bolles. Ed. M.E. Bouton & M.S. Fanselow Washington: American Psychological Association, 1997 Pp. 131-162
  31. Higa, J.J., & Staddon, J.E.R. "Dynamic models of rapid temporal control in animals." Time and behavior: psychological and neurobehavioral analysis. Ed. C.M. Bradshaw & E. Szabadi Elsevier Science, 1997 Pp. 1-40
  32. Staddon, J.E.R "Why behaviorism needs internal states." Investigations in behavioral epistemology. Ed. L.J. Hayes & P.M. Ghezzi Reno, NV: Context Press, 1997 Pp. 107-119
  33. Staddon, J.E.R. & I.M. Chelaru "Diffusion-based guidance systems for autonomous agents." Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence. Ed. S.K. Rogers, D.B. Fogel, J.C. Bezdek, and B. Bosacchi SPIE Proceedings1998
  34. Staddon, J.E.R. & Zanutto, B.S. "In praise of parsimony." Models for Action: Mechanisms for Adaptive Behavior. Ed. C.D.L. Wynne & J.E.R. Staddon New York: Erlbaum, 1998 Pp. 239-267.
  35. Staddon, J.E.R "The dynamics of memory in animal learning." Advances in Psychological Science. Ed. M. Sabourin, F. Craik, & M. Roberts Vol. 2. Proceedings of the XXVI International Congress of PsychologyHove, UK: Psychology Press, 1998 August 1996. Pp. 259-274
  36. Staddon, J.E.R "On responsibility in science and law." Responsibility. Ed. E.F. Paul, F.D. Miller, & J. Paul Cambridge University Press, 1999: 146-174.
  37. Staddon, J.E.R "Theoretical Behaviorism." Handbook of Behaviorism. Ed. W. O'Donohus and R. Kitchener New York: Academic Press, 1999: 217-241.
  38. Cerutti, D.T., Chelaru, I.M, & Staddon, J.E.R "Detecting Hidden Targets: A Procedure for Studying Performance in a Mine-Detection-Like-Task." Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets. Ed. Abinash, C. Dubey, James F. Harvey, J. Thomas Broach, and Regina E. Dugan Washington, D.C.: SPIE, 2000: 102-109.
  39. Staddon, J.E.R "Humanism and Skinner's radical behaviorism." Behavior theory and philosophy. Ed. K.A. Lattal & P.N. Chase New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004: 129-146.
  40. John Staddon "Epilogue." Reflections on Adaptive Behavior: Essays in Honor of J. E. R. Staddon. Ed. N. K. Innis 2008: 389-390.

Commentaries/Book Reviews

  1. Staddon, J.E.R (1969). [Inhibition and the operant]. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12, 481-487.
  2. Staddon, J.E.R (1971). [Darwin explained: An object-lesson in theory construction. Review of M. T. Ghiselin (Ed.), The Triumph of the Darwinian Method]. Contemporary Psychology, 16, 689-691.
  3. Staddon, J.E.R (1972). [Review of R. Borger & F. Cioffi (Eds.), Explanation in the behavioural sciences. Cambridge University Press, 1970]. American Journal of Psychology, 85, 605-611.
  4. Staddon, J.E.R (1973). [On the notion of cause, with applications to behaviorism]. Behaviorism, 1, 25-63.
  5. Staddon, J.E.R (1974). [A note on behavioral contrast and frustration]. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 26, 285-292.
  6. Staddon, J.E.R (1975). [Autocontingencies: Special contingencies or special stimuli? A review of Davis, Memmott, and Hurwitz]. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 104, 189-191.
  7. Staddon, J.E.R (1975). [A note on the evolutionary significance of supernormal stimuli]. American Naturalist, 109, 541-545.
  8. Staddon, J.E.R (1977). [On Herrnstein's equation and related forms]. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 28, 163-170.
  9. Staddon, J.E.R (1979). [Thirst—a static analysis]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2, 120-121.
  10. Staddon, J.E.R (1979). [Regulation and time allocation: A commentary on “conservation in behavior”]. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 108, 35-40.
  11. Staddon, J.E.R (1980). [Action and reaction]. Duke University Letters, 5, 1-3.
  12. Staddon, J.E.R (1981). [The science of the bottom line. Review of R. B. McKenzie & G. Tullock (Eds.), The new world of economics]. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 1, 62-64.
  13. Staddon, J.E.R (1982). [On the dangers of demand curves: A comment on Lea and Tarpy]. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 2, 321-325.
  14. Staddon, J.E.R (1982). [L'Animal-machine. Review of D. McFarland & A. Houston (Eds.), Quantitative ethology: The state space approach. London: Pitman Advanced Publishing, 1981]. Nature, 296, 274-275.
  15. Staddon, J.E.R (1982). [Intention. Review of D. Dennett (Ed.), Brainstorms: Philosophical essays on mind and psychology. Montgomery, Vt.: Bradford, 1978]. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 2, 123-125., 2, 123-125.
  16. Staddon, J.E.R (1982). [In the beginning was the word]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 390-391.
  17. Staddon, J.E.R (1983). [) “. . . As a sculptor shapes a lump of clay...” (Review of D. J. Bernstein (Ed.), Response structure and organization. The Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1981. Lincoln/London: University of Nebraska Press, 1982)]. Contemporary Psychology, 28, 795-797.
  18. Staddon, J.E.R (1983). [Review of R. McNeill Alexander (Ed.), Optima for animals. London: Arnold, 1982]. Bioscience, 33, 522.
  19. Staddon, J.E.R (1983). [How animals detect causes. Review of P. Harzem & M. D. Zeiler (Eds.), Advances in analysis of behaviour: Vol. 2. Predictability, correlation, and contiguity. Chichester, UK: Wiley, 1981]. Contemporary Psychology, 28, 121-123.
  20. Staddon, J.E.R (1984). [Skinner's behaviorism implies a subcutaneous homunculus]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 647.
  21. Staddon, J.E.R (1984). [Reinforcement is the problem, not the solution: The selection and variation of behavior]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 697-699.
  22. Staddon, J.E.R (1984). [It's all a game: A commentary on J. Maynard Smith Game theory and the evolution of behavior]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 116-117.
  23. Staddon, J.E.R (1985). [Review of The Evolution of Operant Learning and Memory, by W. F. Angermeier. Basel: S. Karger, 1984]. Quarterly Review of Biology, 60, 114-115.
  24. Staddon, J.E.R (1985). [Behavioral economics: A partial view. Review of J. Allison (Ed.), Behavioral Economics. New York: Praeger, 1983]. Contemporary Psychology, 30, 465-466.
  25. Staddon, J.E.R (1986). [Review of Issues in the Ecological Study of Learning. Edited by T. D. Johnston, & A. T. Pietrewicz. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. (1985)]. Animal Behaviour, 34, 304.
  26. Staddon, J.E.R (1987). [Brain models and behaviorism: A review of Vehicles by Valentino Braitenberg]. Behaviorism, 15, 63-66.
  27. Staddon, J.E.R (1988). [The functional properties of feeding, or why we still need the black box.]. Appetite, 11, 54-61.
  28. Staddon, J.E.R (1989). [Feeding by numbers: Foraging and reinforcement theory. A review of Quantitative analysis of behavior: Foraging. Vol. 6. Commons, M. L., Kacelnik, A, & Shettleworth, S. J. (Eds.) Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1987]. Contemporary Psychology, 34, 682-683.
  29. Staddon, J.E.R (1991). [“The distemper of learning...” A review of S. B. Klein and R. R. Mowrer (Eds.) Contemporary Learning Theories: Instrumental Conditioning Theory and the Impact of Biological Constraints on Learning]. Contemporary Psychology, 36, 506-507.
  30. 'Group, L. A. B.' (1992). [Omnium Skinnerium: everything you ever wanted to know about the experimental analysis of behavior. Collective review of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, (I. H. Iversen & K. A. Lattal, Eds.)]. Behavioural Processes, xx, 209-217.
  31. Staddon, J.E.R (1992). [Review of Bionomics: The inevitability of capitalism, by Michael Rothschild (New York: Henry Holt, 1990)]. Quarterly Review of Biology, 67, 95-96.
  32. Staddon, J.E.R (1993). [Pepper with a pinch of psalt: A comment on Contextualistic Mechanism or Mechanistic Contextualism]. The Behavior Analyst, 16, 245-250.
  33. Staddon, J.E.R (1994). [Review of B. F. Skinner: A life by D. W. Bjork and B. F. Skinner: A reappraisal, by M. N. Richelle]. American Scientist, 82, 584-585.
  34. Staddon, J. E. R., Davis, D. G. S., Machado, A. & Palmer, R. G (1994). [The cumulative effects model. A response to Williams]. Psychological Review, 101, 708-710.
  35. Staddon, J.E.R (February, 1995). [On responsibility and punishment]. The Atlantic Monthly, 88-94.
  36. Staddon, J.E.R (Spring, 1996). [Freedom from fear?]. The Oxford American, 103-106.
  37. Staddon, J.E.R (1997). [Theory and behavior analysis: comment on The S-R Issue: Its status in behavior analysis and in Donahoe and Palmer's Learning and Complex Behavior]. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 67, 245-246.
  38. Staddon, J.E.R (1997). [Who should pay for science? Essay review of The Economic Laws of Scientific Research by T. Kealey]. Reason, 64-65.
  39. Staddon, J.E.R (1997). [Creativity is first criterion]. Journal of NIH Research (Advise and Dissent), 13.
  40. Staddon, J.E.R (1998). [Instinct and the operant (Editorial)]. Behavior and Philosophy, 26, 1-2.
  41. Staddon, J.E.R (1999). [On Responsibility in Science and Law]. Social Philosophy and Policy, 16, 146-174.
  42. Staddon, J.E.R (2001). [The Trouble with Stanley...A Review of The Trouble with Principle by Stanley Fish]. Behavior and Philosophy, 29, 63-74.
  43. Staddon, J.E.R (2001). [Science as Politics by Other Means: Fact and Analysis in an Ethical World]. Behavior & Philosophy, 29, i-iii.
  44. Staddon, J.E.R (2002). [Up Close: Impersonal]. The Behavior Analyst, 25, 121-122.
  45. Staddon, J.E.R (2002). [Memories of Memorial Hall]. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 77, 392.
  46. Staddon, J.E.R (2004). [Scientific Imperialism and Behaviorist Epistemology]. Behavior and Philosophy, 32, 231-242.
  47. Staddon, J.E.R (2004). [The future]. Behavior and Philosophy, 32, 243-245.
  48. Staddon, J.E.R (2004). [Review of The myth of ownership: taxes and justice]. Society, 41(4), 90-92.
  49. Staddon, J.E.R (2004). [A call to arms]. Behavior Analyst, 27, 117-118.

Edited Volumes

  1. Honig, W. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (Ed.). (1977). Handbook of operant behavior. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
  2. Staddon, J.E.R (Ed.). (1980). Limits to action: The allocation of individual behavior. New York: Academic Press.
  3. Honig, W. K., & Staddon, J. E. R (Ed.). (1983). Manual de la conducta operante. Mexico: Editorial Trillas. (W. K. Honig & J. E. R. Staddon, 1977, Trans)
  4. Commons, M. L., Grossberg, S. & Staddon, J. E. R (Ed.). (1991). Neural networks of conditioning and action, the XIIth Harvard Symposium. (pp. xx, 359). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
  5. Wynne, C.D.L. & Staddon, J.E.R (Ed.). (1998). Models for Action: Mechanisms for Adaptive Behavior. New York: Erlbaum. (Pp. x, 318.)

Reprinted Articles

  1. Staddon, J.E.R (1970). The effect of information feedback on temporal tracking in pigeons. Festschrift for B. F. Skinner, 256-267.
  2. Staddon, J. E. R., & Simmelhag, V (1976). The “superstition” experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior. Behavior and learning.
  3. Staddon, J.E.R (1976). Darwin explained: An object-lesson in theory construction. [Review of M. T. Ghiselin (Ed.), The Triumph of the Darwinian Method [Reprinted as Explanation and proof]. Theories in contemporary psychology, 358-361.