Liz Kyonka, Ph.D.

I study operant conditioning, temporal learning, and behavioral mechanisms of choice  and decision making. My students and I have used human and nonhuman animal laboratory models of choice adaptation and temporal learning to discover how individuals reason and make decisions in our complex, unpredictably changing world. A better understanding of behavior adaptation can be used to develop strategies for facilitating rational or healthy choices in individuals.

I am originally from Toronto, Canada, and have also lived in the USA, New Zealand and Australia. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor in Psychology at California State University, East Bay.

Research

My goals are to understand the laws that govern behavior and to be able to apply them under both well-regulated and somewhat chaotic (i.e., naturalistic) circumstances.

Read about some of my new and continuing research projects on this site, my Google Scholar profile, or my ResearchGate profile.

Teaching

California State University, East Bay

• PSYC 300, Experimental Psychology
• PSYC 310, Conditioning and Learning
• PSYC 413, Advanced Conditioning and Learning
• PSYC 490, Independent Study
• PSYC 491A, Research in Conditioning and Learning

You can read more about these classes here.

Read more about some of the teaching I did at UNE and WVU.

Service

Select service to behavior analysis
Associate Editor
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2020-2023
The Psychological Record, 2017-2020
 
Board Member
Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 2017-present
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010-2012, 2018-2020
Perspectives on Behavior Science, 2018-2022
Association for behavior analysis science board, 2021-2024