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He received his Bachelor of Arts at Columbia College and his Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
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Allen Neuringer
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He is a highly published and well recognized scientist in the field of the experimental analysis of behavior pioneered by B.F. Skinner. His areas of research include human volition studies, the generation of randomness in organisms, self-experimentation, and many other areas. As of June 2008, Doctor Neuringer retired as a professor of psychology at Reed College.
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". Doctor 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 everyday goals as the objective of experiments and, especially, self-experiments. He has been an editor or assistant editor on four journals, and currently is an editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB).
He has been a reviewer on 23 journals, including Science and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
