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Allen Neuringer is a noted American psychologist. He is a highly published and well recognized scientist in the field of the experimental analysis of behavior pioneered by B.F. Skinner. As of June 2008, Dr. Neuringer is retiring from being a professor of psychology at Reed College. His areas of research include human volition studies, the generation of randomness in organisms, self-experimentation, and many other areas.
He has served on National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) committees, received numerous awards and grants for his research, and has published in dozens of journals. He received his B.A. at Columbia College and his Ph. D at Harvard University.
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Randomness and Behavior
Neuringer's work focused on the production of "pure randomness" in human and other organismic behavior, something that was widely considered impossible. Matching and reinforcing human and animal responses to a random number generator he was able to have humans and other organisms behave "randomly".[1][2][3][4]
Self-Experimentation & Melioration
Dr. Neuringer has suggested that behavior analysis as a field might benefit from using experimental designs that explicitly and directly attempted to meliorate the condition of an experimental subject. He envisaged placing practical every-day goals as the objective of experiments and, especially, self-experiments.[5]
Journals
He has been an editor or assistant editor on four journals, and currently is an editor for the widely cited and influential Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB). He has been a reviewer on 23 journals, including Science and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
Grants & Awards
Dr. Neuringer's work has received numerous NSF/NIMH grants and awards.[6]
References
- ^ Neuringer A (December 2004). "Reinforced variability in animals and people: implications for adaptive action". Am Psychol 59 (9): 891–906. doi:. PMID 15584823.
- ^ Neuringer A (December 2002). "Operant variability: evidence, functions, and theory". Psychon Bull Rev 9 (4): 672–705. PMID 12613672. http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/nlm?genre=article&issn=1069-9384&volume=9&issue=4&spage=672&aulast=Neuringer.
- ^ Grunow A, Neuringer A (June 2002). "Learning to vary and varying to learn". Psychon Bull Rev 9 (2): 250–8. PMID 12120786. http://openurl.ingenta.com/content/nlm?genre=article&issn=1069-9384&volume=9&issue=2&spage=250&aulast=Grunow.
- ^ Vickrey C, Neuringer A (June 2000). "Pigeon reaction time, Hick's law, and intelligence". Psychon Bull Rev 7 (2): 284–91. PMID 10909135.
- ^ Neuringer A (November 1984). "Melioration and self-experimentation". J Exp Anal Behav 42 (3): 397–406. doi:. PMID 16812398.
- ^ see http://academic.reed.edu/psychology/CVs/allencv.pdf for a breakdown of each grant
External links
Neuringer's faculty web page at Reed College
Neuringer's CV
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