Liz Kyonka, Ph.D.
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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. As a member of the Cal State East Bay community with an office on the Hayward campus, I acknowledge that I am a guest on the unceded land of the First People of this region, the present-day Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area (formerly Verona Band of Alameda County). I support the sovereignty of this Chochenyo-Ohlone-speaking tribal group and other Indigenous peoples. This acknowledgment was created by the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe with the support of the CSUEB Indigenous Acknowledgment Collective and is a living document. CSUEB Muwekma Ohlone Tribal Land Acknowledgment - Full Version |
Research
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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
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California State University, East Bay
Read more about some of my teaching at the University of New England and West Virginia University. |
Service
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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 |
