SABA Master's Thesis Grant Recipients
2010: Adam Fox (Western Michigan University)
Adam Fox received his undergraduate degree from Western Michigan University (WMU) with a major in psychology. During his time at WMU, he worked in the labs of Cynthia Pietras and Jim Carr. After receiving his degree, he decided to pursue a graduate education in the experimental analysis of behavior at WMU.
Adam's research interests lie in several different domains within the experimental analysis of behavior. His master's work at WMU is assessing the effects of a response-cost punisher on instructionally controlled behavior in humans. He is also currently working to assess the conditions under which conditioned punishers develop in humans in a human operant setting and the effects of carry-over earnings on human choice in an earnings budget preparation based on his mentor Cindy Pietras' work.
As Adam works toward his academic goals, he would like to continue examining human choice and the effects of instructions and punishment on human behavior. He is interested in the effects instructions have on human behavior with respect to behavioral momentum. He is also interested in the behavioral neurological aspects of these types of phenomena in both humans and non-humans.
He would also like to further investigate how behavioral psychologists can use behavioral-ecology models and theories to investigate behavior of both humans and nonhumans.
Adam plans to obtain a Ph.D. in experimental psychology, work in a postdoctoral position, and eventually work in an academic setting teaching and conducting basic behavioral research. He would like to thank the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis for all of their support of behavior analysis, especially graduate student research. He would also like to thank Cindy Pietras and everyone in the Human Operant and Behavioral Pharmacology Lab at WMU.
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