John Staddon

John E. R. Staddon is James B. Duke Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Biology and Neurobiology, Emeritus, at Duke University.  He got his undergraduate degree from University College, London and his PhD in Experimental Psychology from Harvard.  He has worked in many universities around the world: MIT, University of Toronto, Oxford University (UK), University of São Paulo (Brazil), the University of Mexico, the Ruhr Universität and Universität Konstanz, (Germany), and the University of Western Australia.  He has written and lectured on public-policy issues such as evolution and education, IQ, traffic control, smoking and the effects of social and biological processes in finance and economics.  He has published more than 200 research papers and nine books, including The Malign Hand of the Markets (2012, McGraw-Hill), The New Behaviorism: Mind, Mechanism and Society. (Psychology Press, 2nd edition 2014) Adaptive Behavior and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2016), The Englishman: Memoirs of a psychobiologist. (University of Buckingham Press, 2016), Science in an Age of Unreason (Regnery, 2022) and Scientific Method: How science works, fails to work, or pretends to work. Second Edition, Routledge (2024).