Associate Professor, Applied Behavioral Science
4048 Dole Human Development Center
Department Phone: 785.864.4840
Office Phone: 785.864.0504
Fax: 785.864.5202
E-mail: gmadden@ku.edu
B.A. University of North Texas (Psychology), 1987
M.S. University of North Texas (Behavior Analysis), 1992
Ph.D. West Virginia University (Psychology/Behavior Analysis), 1995
Post-Doc Training University of Vermont (National Institute on Drug Abuse), 1995-1998
Undergraduate Specialty Area(s)
Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
Research Interests
My research is designed to investigate processes underlying impulsive decision making and how these processes influence the development and maintenance of substance abuse and pathological gambling. Currently, students in my lab are developing an animal model of gambling in both rats and pigeons. Historically, my research has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Students interested in pursuing basic research careers in behavior analysis, behavioral economics, psychopharmacology, and/or behavioral decision making are encouraged to contact Dr. Madden via email to discuss financial support available at KU.
Service and Professional Interests
Currently I serve as the Associate Editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. In addition, I am currently or have been a member of the Editorial Board of journals such as Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, and The Behavior Analyst. I also serve as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIDA), on the board or directors for the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, on the executive committee of APA Division 25, as the Awards Chair for Division 25 of the APA, and am past president (2005) of the Mid-American Association for Behavior Analysis.
Representative Publications
Madden, G. J., Smethells, J., Ewan, E.E., & Hursh, S.R. (in press). Tests of behavioral economic assessments of relative reinforcer efficacy: Economic substitutes and complements. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
Madden, G. J., & Hartman, E. C. (2006). A steady-state test of the demand curve analysis of relative reinforcer efficacy. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Madden, G. J., Dake, J. M., Mauel, E. C., & Rowe, R. R. (2005). Labor supply and consumption of food in a closed economy under a range of fixed- and random-ratio schedules: Tests of unit price. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 83, 99-118.
Perry, J. L., Larson, E. B., German, J. P., Madden, G. J., & Carroll, M. E. (2005). Impulsivity (delay discounting) as a predictor of acquisition of i.v. cocaine self-administration in female rats. Psychopharmacology, 178, 193-201.
Madden, G. J., Raiff, B.R., Lagorio, C. H., Begotka, A. M., Mueller, A.M., Hehli, D. J., & Wegener, A. A. (2004). Delay discounting of potentially real and hypothetical rewards II: Between- and within-subject comparisons. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 12, 251-261.
Odum, A. L., Madden, G. J., & Bickel, W. K. (2002). Discounting of delayed health gains and losses in current, never-, and ex-smokers of cigarettes. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 4, 295-303.
Madden, G. J., Bickel, W. K., & Jacobs, E. A. (2000). Three predictions of the economic concept of unit price in a choice context. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73, 45-64.
Bickel, W. K., & Madden, G. J. (1999). A comparison of measures of relative reinforcer efficacy and behavioral economics: Cigarettes and money in smokers. Behavioural Pharmacology, 10, 627-637.
Madden, G. J., & Perone, M. (1999). Human sensitivity to concurrent schedules of reinforcement: The role of schedule-correlated stimuli. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 71, 303-318.
Madden, G. J., Chase, P. N., & Joyce, J. (1998). Making sense of sensitivity in the human-operant literature The Behavior Analyst, 21, 1-12.
Madden, G. J., Petry, N., Badger, G. J., & Bickel, W. K. (1997). Impulsive and self-control choices in opiate-dependent patients and non-drug-using control participants: Drug and monetary rewards. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 5, 256-262.
