Allen Neuringer is an American psychologist

Psychologist

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. He is a highly published and well recognized scientist in the field of the experimental analysis of behavior

Experimental analysis of behavior

The experimental analysis of behavior is the name given to the school of psychology founded by B.F. Skinner, and based on his philosophy of radical behaviorism. A central principle was the inductive, data-driven examination of functional relations, as opposed to the kinds of hypothetico-deductive...

 pioneered by B.F. Skinner. His areas of research include human volition studies, the generation of randomness in organisms, self-experimentation

Self-experimentation

Self-experimentation refers to the very special case of single-subject scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on her- or himself. Usually this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment are all the same...

, and many other areas.

He has served on National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation

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 (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. As of June 2008, Dr. Neuringer is retiring from being a professor of psychology at Reed College

Reed College

Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...

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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".

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.

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

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior was established in 1958 as apeer-reviewed, psychology journal, that publishes fundamental research about the experimental analysis of behavior....

 (JEAB). He has been a reviewer on 23 journals, including Science

Science (journal)

Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals....

and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis was established in 1968 as a peer-reviewed, psychology journal, that publishes research about applications of the experimental analysis of behavior to problems of social importance....

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External links

Neuringer's faculty web page at Reed College

Neuringer's CV