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James E. Mazur

James Mazur
Professor 

Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 

Email: mazurj1@southernct.edu 

Phone: (203) 392-6876 

 
Research Interests: 

Animal learning and behavior, classical and operant conditioning, choice learning and decision making, self control and impulsiveness.  
 
Current/Recent Research Projects:

Molecular analysis of choice behavior, ongoing research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Recent Publications:

Mazur, J. E., & Biondi, D. R.  (2009, in press).  Delay-amount tradeoffs in choices by pigeons and rats:  Hyperbolic versus exponential discounting.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

Mazur, J. E.  (2008). Effects of reinforcer delay and variability in a successive-encounters procedure.  Learning & Behavior, 36, 301-310.

Mazur, J. E.  (2008).  Editorial: Half a century.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 89, 1-3.

Mazur, J. E.  (2007).  Rats' choices between one and two delayed reinforcers.  Learning & Behavior, 35, 169-176.

Mazur, J. E.  (2007).  Choice in a successive-encounters procedure and hyperbolic decay of reinforcement.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 88, 73-85.

Mazur, J. E.  (2007).  Species differences between rats and pigeons in choices with probabilistic and delayed reinforcers.  Behavioural Processes, 75, 220-224.

Mazur, J. E. (2006). Learning and behavior (Sixth Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall.

Mazur, J. E. (2006). Mathematical models and the experimental analysis of behavior.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 85, 275-291.

Mazur, J. E. (2005). Exploring a concurrent-chains paradox: Decreased preference as an initial link is shortened.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 3-17.

Mazur, J. E. (2004). Risky choice: Selecting between certain and uncertain outcomes. Behavior Analysis Today, 5, 190-203.

Mazur, J. E. (2004). Varying initial-link and terminal-link durations in concurrent-chains schedules: A comparison of three models. Behavioural Processes, 66, 189-200.