Browsing by Author "Staddon, J"

College Admissions Ride the Equality Roundabout

Staddon, J (Academic Questions, 2019-12-01)

Did Skinner Miss the Point about Teaching?

Staddon, J (2006)

The Darwinian metaphor, to which Skinner was an early contributor, has been a commonplace for several years. Operant learning is seen as an interplay between response emission (variation) and reinforcement (selection). ...

Facts vs. Passion: The Debate over Science-Based Regulation

Staddon, J (Academic Questions, 2020-01-01)

Object of Inquiry: Psychology’s Other (Non-replication) Problem

Staddon, J (Academic Questions, 2019-06)

On Responsibility in Science and Law

Staddon, J (1999)

I argue that responsibility and determinism are not antithetical but mutually supportive ideas; that factors affecting responsibility, such as drugs and mental and physiological conditions, may be the occasion for increased ...

Scientific method: How science works, fails to work, and pretends to work

Staddon, J (2017-12-01)

© 2018 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. This book shows how science works, fails to work, or pretends to work, by looking at examples from such diverse fields as physics, biomedicine, psychology, and economics. Social ...

The Case for Carbon Dioxide

Staddon, J; Morcombe, P (Academic Questions, 2020-01-01)

The new behaviorism, second edition

Staddon, J (2014-01-01)

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This second edition is a completely rewritten and much expanded version of the first edition, published nearly 15 years earlier. It surveys what changes have occurred within behaviorism and whether ...

Theoretical Behaviorism, Economic Theory, and Choice

Staddon, J (History of Political Economy, 2016)

© 2016 by Duke University Press. Choice behavior is studied differently in humans and in animals, and different theories have arisen to explain the results. I suggest that an approach derived from animal studies is also ...