 Dr. Ben Williams received his PhD from Harvard University in 1970. For three years he taught at Colorado College before moving to the University of California, San Diego, where he has been on the faculty of the Psychology Department for 30 years. The research areas in which he has published include conditioned reinforcement, choice, behavioral contrast, delay of reinforcement, stimulus control, and Pavlovian conditioning. His current research also includes the investigation of the relation between intelligence scores and learning rate. Dr. Williams has been on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Animal Learning and Behavior, Learning and Motivation, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, and Behavior and Philosophy. He was recently elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP). In 1995, Dr. Williams was diagnosed with brain cancer, an experience about which he wrote a book (2002): 'Surviving “Terminal” Cancer: Clinical Trials, Drug Cocktails, and Other Treatments Your Oncologist Won’t Tell You About’. |