Mid-American Association for Behavior Analysis award winners:
Monica Francisco for the best basic research poster
Jonny Miller for the best student paper
Megan Stein for the best overall poster.
Prof. Gregory Madden a specialist in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, is the recipient of the 2008 ING Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Madden teaches ABSC 100 [Introduction to Applied Behavioral Science], ABSC 509 [Contemporary Behavioral Science: Historical, Conceptual and Comparative Foundations], and ABSC 735 [Within-Subjects Research Methodology and Direct Observation]
Patrick Johnson, who is entering his fourth year of doctoral training, was recently awarded the Experimental Fellowship ($2,000) from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA), a charter group of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI). He received the award for his continuing line of nonhuman research investigating the effects of a dopamine agonist on preferences for gambling and other forms of impulsive decision-making. Patrick’s dissertation will take a somewhat different direction as he seeks to quantify the economic relation between response force requirements and subjective valuation of liquid reinforcement in rats (aka effort discounting). Patrick is advised by Dr. Gregory Madden and he collaborates with Dr. Steven Fowler of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
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