Dr. Madden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. He teaches Psy
1400/1410 which is the introductory course in behavioral processes. Topics range from
free will to interventions designed to treat drug dependence. In 2009, Dr. Madden was
awarded the ING Excellence in Teaching Award. 

Dr. Madden's research broadly examines decision making. For example, he and his
graduate- and undergraduate student colleagues study how medications affect our ability
to resist temptations such as gambling or succumbing to immediate gratification. Other
studies are examining how to teach individuals to better delay gratification, with the
long-term goal of reducing susceptibility to addictions. Still other studies are designed
to improve the diet choices made by children in elementary schools. These projects are
supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Drug
Abuse) and the US Department of Agriculture. 

Dr. Madden earned a Master's degree in Behavior Analysis from the University of
North Texas in 1992, a Ph.D. in Psychology from West Virginia University in 1995, and
completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Vermont in 1998. In
the ensuing years he was privileged to work with outstanding groups of teachers and
researchers at the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. 

Dr. Madden served as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of
Behavior from 2002-2008, and is the Editor-Elect of this prestigious journal (2011-2014).
He has served on a number of decision making bodies, including his current appointment on
the Executive Council of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. He
frequently reviews grant proposals for the National Institutes of Health and, every once
in a while, he skis, mountain bikes, and hikes with his family.

Articles

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Effects of Acute Pramipexole on Preference for Gambling-Like Schedules of Reinforcement in Rats (with Patrick S. Johnson, Adam T. Brewer, Jonathan W. Pinkston, and Stephen C. Fowler), Psychopharmacology (2010)

Rationale

Pramipexole and other direct dopamine agonist medications have been implicated in the development...
 

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Effects of Bupropion on Simulated Demand for Cigarettes and the Subjective Effects of Smoking (with David Kalman), Nicotine and Tobacco Research (2010)

Introduction: The biobehavioral mechanism(s) mediating bupropion’s efficacy are not well understood. Behavioral economic measures...

 

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Effects of Pramipexole on Impulsive Choice in Male Wistar Rats (with P. Johnson, A. Brewer, J. W. Pinkston, and S. Fowler), Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology (2010)

Clinical reports, primarily with Parkinson's disease patients, note an association between the prescribed use of...

 

Behavioral Economics: Principles, Procedures, and Utility for Applied Behavior Analysis (with M. T. Francisco and J. B. Borrero), Behavior Analyst Today (2009)
 

Discounting within the Gambling Context, Analysis of Gambling Behavior (2009)
 

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Books

APA Handbook of Behavior Analysis (with W. V. Dube and G. P. Hanley), APA Handbook of Behavior Analysis (2011)
 

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Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting (with Warren K. Bickel), Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting (2010)

Impulsivity explores the basis for the seemingly universal tendency to devalue rewards or punishments that...

 

Contributions to Books

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A Discounting Primer (with Patrick S. Johnson), Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting (2010)

Impulsivity explores the basis for the seemingly universal tendency to devalue rewards or punishments that...

 

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Discounting and Pathological Gambling (with Nancy M. Petry), Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting (2010)

Impulsivity explores the basis for the seemingly universal tendency to devalue rewards or punishments that...

 

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At the Crossroads of Time and Action: A Temporal Discounting Primer for Prospective Memory Researchers (with T. S. Critchfield), Timing the Future: The Case for a Time-Based Prospective Memory (2006)

In this volume, leading researchers bring together current work on time perception and time-based prospective...

 

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A Behavioral-Economics Primer, Reframing Health Behavior Change with Behavioral Economics (2000)

This chapter is designed to serve as an introduction to the major concepts, measures, and...

 

Other

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The Behavioral Economics of Smoking (with Warren K. Bickel), National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series (1998)

Evidence that economic principles may be employed to predict the rates at which cigarettes are...