J. E. R. Staddon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

J. E. R. Staddon

American psychologist

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1937

Place of Birth: United Kingdom

Profession: psychologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

John Eric Rayner Staddon is a British-born American psychobiologist known for experimental and theoretical research on interval timing, Skinnerian "superstition," and behavioral economics (optimality) in rats, pigeons, and fish—and people.
He has been a critic of Skinnerian behaviorism and proposed a theoretically based New Behaviorism." which shows that the state of the organism must be taken into account as well as the stimuli it experiences and the responses it makes.