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.
John Eric Rayner Staddon (born 1937) is a British-born American psychologist. He has been a critic of Skinnerianbehaviorism and proposed a theoretically-based "New Behaviorism".
Staddon, J. E. R. (1964). Reinforcement as input: Cyclic variable-interval schedule. Science, 145, 410-412.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1965). Some properties of spaced responding in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 8, 19-27.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1970). "Temporal effects of reinforcement: A negative 'frustration' effect". Learning and Motivation. 1 (3): 227–247. doi:10.1016/0023-9690(70)90148-7. hdl:10161/3230.
Staddon, J. E.; Simmelhag, Virginia L. (January 1971). "The 'supersitition' experiment: A reexamination of its implications for the principles of adaptive behavior". Psychological Review. 78 (1): 3–43. doi:10.1037/h0030305.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1974). Temporal control, attention and memory. Psychological Review, 81, 375-391.
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.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1977). Schedule-induced behavior. In W. K. Honig & J. E. R. Staddon (Eds.), Handbook of operant behavior. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1977). Temporal fine structure of bird song. Proceedings of the XVth International Ethological Conference (p. 156).
Honig, W. K., & Staddon, J. E. R. (Eds.). (1977). Handbook of operant behavior. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Staddon, J. E. R., & Motheral, S. (1978). On matching and maximizing in operant choice experiments. Psychological Review, 85, 436-444.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1981). Cognition in animals: Learning as program assembly. Cognition, 10, 287-294.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1981). On a possible relation between cultural transmission and genet-ical evolution. In P. Klopfer & P. P. G. Bateson (Eds.), Perspectives in ethology: Vol. 4. Advantages of diversity. London: Plenum.
Staddon, J. E. R., Hinson, J. M., & Kram, R. (1981). Optimal choice. Journal of the Ex-perimental Analysis of Behavior, 35, 397-412.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1982). On the dangers of demand curves: A comment on Lea and Tarpy. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 2, 321-325.
Ettinger, R. H., & Staddon, J. E. R. (1982). Behavioral competition, component duration and multiple-schedule contrast. Behaviour Analysis Letters, 2, 31-38.
Staddon, J. E. R., & Gendron, R. P. (1983). Optimal detection of cryptic prey may lead to predator switching. American Naturalist, 122, 843-848.
Staddon, J. E. R., & Hinson, J. M. (1983). Optimization: A result or a mechanism? Science, 221, 976-7.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1984). Skinner’s behaviorism implies a subcutaneous homunculus. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 647.
Staddon, J. E. R., & Zhang, Y. (1989) Response selection in operant learning. Behavioural Processes, 20,189-97.
Staddon, J. E. R., & Reid, A. K. (1990) On the dynamics of generalization. Psychological Review, 97, 576-578.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1992) Rationality, melioration and law-of-effect models for choice. Psychological Science, 3, 136-141.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1992) The ‘superstition’ experiment: A reversible figure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 121, 270-272.
Staddon, J. E. R.; Higa, J. J. (1996). "Multiple time scales in simple habituation". Psychological Review. 103 (4): 720–733. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.103.4.720. PMID8888652.
Reid, Alliston K.; Staddon, J.E.R. (August 1997). "A reader for the cognitive map". Information Sciences. 100 (1–4): 217–228. doi:10.1016/S0020-0255(97)00042-X.
Staddon, J. E. R. (1997) Why behaviorism needs internal states. In L. J. Hayes & P. M. Ghezzi (Eds.) Investigations in behavioral epistemology. Reno, NV: Context Press. Pp. 107-119.
Staddon, J. E. R., & Zanutto, B. S. (1997) Feeding dynamics: Why rats eat in meals and what this means for foraging and feeding regulation. In Learning, motivation and cognition: The functional behaviorism of Robert C. Bolles. M. E. Bouton & M. S. Fanselow (eds.) Washington: American Psychological Association. Pp. 131-162.
Staddon, John E. R.; Chelaru, Ioan M. (25 March 1998). Rogers, Steven K.; Fogel, David B.; Bezdek, James C.; Bosacchi, Bruno (eds.). "Diffusion-based guidance system for autonomous agents". Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence. 3390: 404–411. Bibcode:1998SPIE.3390..404S. doi:10.1117/12.304848. S2CID15421054.
Jozefowiez, Jeremie; Cerutti, D. T.; Staddon, J. E. R. (2006). "Timescale invariance and Weber's law in choice". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 32 (3): 229–238. doi:10.1037/0097-7403.32.3.229. PMID16834491.
Staddon, J. E. R.; Higa, J. J. (August 2006). "Interval timing". Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 7 (8): 678. doi:10.1038/nrn1764-c1. S2CID38512849.
Staddon, John (December 2006). "Did Skinner miss the point about teaching?". International Journal of Psychology. 41 (6): 555–558. doi:10.1080/00207590500492708. hdl:10161/5119.
Jozefowiez, J., Staddon, J. E. R. & Cerutti, D. T. (2009) Metacognition in animals: how do we know that they know? Comparative Cognition and Behavior Reviews, 4, 19-29.
Jozefowiez, J., Staddon, J. E. R. & Cerutti, D. T. (2009) The behavioral economics of choice and interval timing. Psychological Review, 116, 519-539.
J. E. R. Staddon, R.C. MacPhail, and S. Padilla (2010) Dynamics of successive induction in larval zebrafish. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 94, 261–266.
Staddon, John (2014). "On Choice and the Law of Effect". International Journal of Comparative Psychology. 27 (4). doi:10.46867/ijcp.2014.27.04.03.
Staddon. John (2016) Where Operant Conditioning Went Wrong: Why did Skinner’s Innovations Stall? Behavior Analysis Quarterly, 2(3), 18-21.
Staddon, John (1 December 2016). "Theoretical Behaviorism, Economic Theory, and Choice". History of Political Economy. 48 (suppl_1): 316–331. doi:10.1215/00182702-3619334.
Staddon, John (March 2020). "Facts vs. Passion: The Debate over Science-Based Regulation". Academic Questions. 33 (1): 101–110. doi:10.1007/s12129-019-09861-x. S2CID214539967.