Thomas R. Zentall
University of Kentucky
Thomas R. Zentall is DiSilvestro Professor of Arts and Sciences in Psychology. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Université de Lille, France, and was a Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Zentall received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and has served on the Executive Committee of Division 25 (The Analysis of Behavior) of the American Psychological Association. He has also served as President of Midwestern Psychological Association, President of Divisions 3 (Experimental Psychology) and 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology) of the American Psychological Association, Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society, and President of the Comparative Cognition Society. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Psychological Association, and in 2010 he gave the Fred Keller Distinguished Lecture at EPA. Dr. Zentall has published research in concept learning, social learning, timing, memory, and choice behavior in humans, pigeons and dogs. Much of his recent research has focused on paradoxical human behavior such as cognitive dissonance and sub-optimal gambling and their explanation in simpler behavioral terms.