ROGER T. KELLEHER, BEHAVIOR ANALYST

• Published in: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Vol. 86; no. 3; pp. 371 - 384
• Main Author: Branch, Marc N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2006; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Inc
• Subjects: Animals; Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Behavior, Animal - physiology; Behavioral Science Research; Behavioral Sciences; Biographies; biography; Competition; conditioned reinforcement; Conditioning; Conditioning (Psychology); Doctoral Dissertations; Endangered & extinct species; Experiments; Graduate Students; History, 20th Century; Humans; Kelleher; Motor Activity; Pharmacology; Principals; Psychological Patterns; Psychology, Experimental - history; Reinforcement; Reinforcement Schedule; reinforcement schedules; Research Methodology; Researchers; Roger T Kelleher; second-order schedules; Studies; Time Factors; United States; United States
• ISSN: 0022-5002; 1938-3711; 0022-5002
• DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2006.25-06

Roger T. Kelleher, rightly known as one of the foremost contributors to behavioral pharmacology, also made many important contributions to the experimental analysis of behavior. He participated significantly in the development of the discipline, through both his research and his editorial contributions to this journal. This article summarizes his contributions to the field of behavior analysis. His most significant empirical and conceptual contributions to behavior analysis came in two domains—conditioned reinforcement and the power of schedules of reinforcement. His accomplishments in these two domains still serve as principal foundations for modern research and theory.