Faculty
EDMUND FANTINO
Professor
CONTACT:
| Email: | efantino@ucsd.edu |
| Phone: | (858) 534-3927 |
BIOGRAPHY:
Research Interests
Dr. Fantino's research interests lie in the field of learning and motivation, especially choice, conditioned reinforcement, and sources of multiple stimulus control in humans and in pigeons. Currently he is interested in human reasoning, especially illogical thinking, problem-solving, and in human observing, including the conditions under which information reinforces human behavior. A second major interest involves operant analogues to foraging behavior, including assessment of behavioral ecology theories with operant choice technology and optimal choice in humans and pigeons.
Selected Publications
Fantino, E., & Logan, C. A. (1979). The experimental analysis of behavior: A biological perspective. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
Fantino, E., & Abarca, N. (1985). Choice, optimal foraging, and the delay reduction hypothesis. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8, 315-366.
Stolarz-Fantino, S., & Fantino. E. (1995). The experimental analysis of reasoning: A review of Gilovich's "How We Know What Isn't So." Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 64, 111-116.
Goodie, A. S., & Fantino, E. (1995). An experientially derived base-rate error in humans. Psychological Science, 6, 101-106.
Goodie, A. S., & Fantino, E. (1996). Learning to commit or avoid the base-rate error. Nature, 380, 247-249.
Stolarz-Fantino, S., Fantino, E., & Kulik, J. (1996). The conjunction fallacy: Differential incidence as a function of descriptive frames and educational context. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 21, 208-218.
Fantino, E., Kulik, J., Stolarz-Fantino, S., & Wright, W. (1997). The conjunction fallacy: A test of averaging hypotheses. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 4, 96-101.
Fantino, E. (1998). Judgment and decision making: Behavioral approaches. The Behavior Analyst, 21, 203-218.
Goldshmidt, J. N., Lattal, K. M., & Fantino, E. (1998). Context effects on choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 70, 301-320.
Goodie, A. S., & Fantino, E. (1999). What does and does not alleviate base-rate neglect under direct experience. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 12, 307-335.
Fantino, E., & Goldshmidt, J. N. (2000). Differences, not ratios, control choice in an experimental analogue to foraging. Psychological Science, 11, 229-233.
Zizzo, D. J., Stolarz-Fantino, S., Wen, J., & Fantino, E. (2000). A violation of the monotonicity axiom: Experimental evidence on the conjunction fallacy. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 41, 263-276.
Context: a central concept. Behavioural Processes, 2001, 54, 95-110 (Fantino, E.).
From patterns to prosperity: A review of Rachlins The Science of Self-Control. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2002, 78, 117-125 (Fantino, E. & Stolarz-Fantino, S.)
Probability matching: Encouraging optimal responding in humans. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2002, 56, 58-63 (Fantino, E., and Esfandiari, A.).
The nurturing of a behavior analyst. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2002, 77, 377-379 (Fantino, E.)
The role of negative reinforcement; or: Is there an altruist in the house? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2002, 25(2), 257-258 (Fantino, E., & Stolarz-Fantino, S.).
Rules and problem solving: Another look. American Journal of Psychology, 2003, 116(4), 613-632 (Fantino, E., Jaworski, B.A., Case, D.A., & Stolarz-Fantino, S.)
The conjunction effect: New evidence for robustness. American Journal of Psychology, 2003, 116, 15-34 (Stolarz-Fantino, S., Fantino, E., Zizzo, D.J., & Wen, J.).
Economic context and pigeons' risk-taking: An integrative approach. Behavioural Processes, 2003, 65, 133-154 (Goldshmidt, J.N. & Fantino, E.)
Context and its effect on transfer. Greek Economic Review, 2003, 22(2), 11-26 (Fantino, E. & Stolarz-Fantino, S.).
Behavior-analytic approaches to decision making. Behavioural Processes, 2004, 279-288 (Fantino, E.).
Decision-making: Context matters. Behavioural Processes, 2005, 69(2), 165-171 (Fantino, E. & Stolarz-Fantino, S.).
Value of conditioned reinforcers as a function of temporal context. Learning and Motivation, 2005, 36, 42-59 (ODaly, M., Meyer, S. & Fantino, E.).
The sunk cost effect in pigeons and humans. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2005, 1-13. (Navarro, A. D., & Fantino, E.).
Teaching pigeons to commit base-rate neglect. Psychological Science, 2005, 16, 820-825 (Fantino, E., Kanevsky, I.G. & Charlton, S.).
The science of decision-making: Behaviors related to gambling. International Gambling Studies, 2005, 5(2), 169-186 (Fantino, E., Navarro, A., & ODaly, M.).
Influence of temporal context on value in the multiple chains and successive-encounters procedures. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, in press. (O'Daly, M., Angulo, S., Gipson, C., & Fantino, E.)
Self-control in a prisoners dilemma game: The role of trial spacing and an interfering task. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, in press (Fantino, E., Gaitan, S.C., Meyer, S., & Stolarz-Fantino, S.).
Use of base rates and case-cue information in making likelihood estimates. Memory & Cognition, in press (Stolarz-Fantino, S., Fantino, E. & Van Borst, N.)
