{{Short description|British-born American psychologist}} {{autobiography|date=September 2023}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = J. E. R. Staddon | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = John Eric Rayner Staddon | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship = | residence = | occupation = | website = | education = University College London<br>Hollins College<br>Harvard University | thesis_title = The effect of "knowledge of results" on timing behavior in the pigeon | thesis_url = https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990039676860203941/catalog | thesis_year = 1964 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = Psychology <!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> | sub_discipline = Psychobiology <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = <!--full-time positions only, not student positions--> | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> }}
'''John Eric Rayner Staddon''' is a British-born American psychologist. who studied theoretical behaviorism. He has been a critic of Skinnerian behaviorism and proposed a theoretically-based "New Behaviorism".<ref>{{Cite web |title=J. E. R. Staddon - Fifteen Eighty Four {{!}} Cambridge University Press |url=https://www.cambridgeblog.org/author-profile/j-e-r-staddon/ |access-date=2023-06-19 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2586/Reflections-on-Adaptive-BehaviorEssays-in-Honor-of |title=Reflections on Adaptive Behavior: Essays in Honor of J.E.R. Staddon |date=2008-05-02 |publisher=The MIT Press |doi=10.7551/mitpress/7883.001.0001 |isbn=9780262276023 |language=en |editor-last1=Innis |editor-first1=Nancy K. }}</ref>
==Life and career== Educated first at University College London, a three-year period interrupted by two years<ref>{{cite book |last1=Staddon |first1=John |title=The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist |date=2016 |publisher=Legend Press Ltd |isbn=9781908684660 |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etKdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT106 |language=en}}</ref> 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. Since 2007, he has been professor emeritus at Duke University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=John E. R. Staddon |url=https://scholars.duke.edu/person/jers}}</ref>
==Books== *1977, co-editor with W. K. Honig: ''Handbook of Operant behavior''. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall *1980, editor: ''Limits to action: The allocation of individual behavior''. New York: Academic Press. *2001: ''Adaptive Dynamics: The Theoretical Analysis of Behavior''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT/Bradford *2012'': The Malign Hand of the Markets''. McGraw-Hill. Japanese translation: Shijo o ayatsuru jaku na te: Kin'yu shijo o hakai suru miezaru chikara. *2013: ''Unlucky Strike: Private Health and the Science, Law and Politics of Smoking''. University of Buckingham Press {{isbn|9781908684370}} *2016: ''The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist''. University of Buckingham Press *2016: ''Adaptive Behavior and Learning, 2nd Edition''. Cambridge University Press) *2018: ''Scientific Method: How science works, fails to work and pretends to work''. Routledge *2021: ''The New Behaviorism: Foundations of behavioral science, 3rd Edition''. Psychology Press *2022: ''Science in an age of unreason''. Regnery *2024: ''Scientific Method: How science works, fails to work or pretends to work.'' (Second edition) Taylor and Francis.
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==External links== * [https://scholars.duke.edu/person/jers Scholars at Duke]
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