McDowell’s Lab |
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Lab members |
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Former members |
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Emory University, Department of Psychology, Atlanta, GA, USA |
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John Berg, , Ph.D. |
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Saule Kulubekova, Ph.D. |
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Marcia Caron, Ph.D. |
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Paul Soto, Ph.D. |
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Jesse Dallery, Ph.D. |
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Jack J McDowell, PhD |
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Dr. McDowell received an A. B. in Psychology from Yale University in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Sony Brook in 1979. He has been a member of the Emory University Psychology Department, in the Clinical Psychology Program, since 1979. Dr. McDowell’s research has focused on the quantitative analysis of adaptive behavior. He has conducted tests of matching theory in experiments with humans, rats, and pigeons, has made formal mathematical contributions to the matching theory literature, and has proposed and tested a computational theory of adaptive behavior dynamics. He has also written on the relevance of mathematical and computational accounts of adaptive behavior for the treatment of clinical problems. Dr. McDowell is a licensed clinical psychologist and participates in the clinical training of doctoral students in the clinical psychology program. In addition, he maintains a small private practice of behavior therapy for children and adults. |
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Andrei Popa (doctoral candidate) |
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Andrei Popa received his B.A. in General Psychology from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romania) in 2003 and he joined our lab in 2007. He received his M.A. in 2009 (field: computational behavior analysis) and entered candidacy in August 2011. His current research is focused on behavioral variability (impulsivity-like symptoms) as an emergent property of fixed organismic properties and specific environmental conditions. The overarching goal of this line of research is to use the Computational Theory to simulate behavioral interventions (melioration and large scale prevention) for high-level, emergent phenotypes, such as AD/HD. He also teaches Abnormal Psychology and Theories of Personality at Georgia State University and the course on Evolution of Acquired Behavior at Emory University (Spring 2013).
Vitae, Research Statement |
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Nicholas Calvin, M.A. |
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Hi, my name is Nick Calvin and I am currently a third year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology department. I just achieved my Master’s in Clinical Psychology and am just beginning the doctoral program. Since starting in the lab I have done a lot of work developing and testing the Evolutionary Theory of Behavior Dynamics and other theories. This has resulted in a third author paper and I expect to have two first author papers within the year. My current work is in the early stage of expanding & utilizing the Evolutionary Theory of Behavior Dynamics to examine social behavior in the context of antisocial behavior in children. I am a war veteran having served a tour in Iraq in 2004 and 2005 as a quartermaster in the Army Reserve. My time in service ended this last year and my final rank was Sergeant. After returning from my tour in Iraq, I achieved a Bachelor’s of Science in Biobehavioral Health at Pennsylvania State University in 2008 with a minor in Neuroscience. I spent the next two years at the University of Maryland, working in the Center of Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research where I acted as a Research Assistant on a couple of studies and acted as the lab programmer. That was a wonderful experience and I learned a lot there. Since then I have been in Atlanta at Emory. |
