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Michael Domjan, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
VITA
Email:domjan@psy.utexas.edu
Phone: 471-7702
Office: SEA 4.232
See also Behavioral Neuroscience
Michael Domjan has been studying behavioral mechanisms of learning, primarily in animals, for nearly four decades. He is especially noted for his functional approach to classical conditioning, which he has pursued in studies of sexual conditioning and taste aversion learning. His research was selected for a MERIT Award by the National Institutes of Mental Health, as well as a Golden Fleece Award by United States Senator William Proxmire. He served as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes and was recipient of the G. Stanley Hall Award from the American Psychological Association. He is a past President of the Pavlovian Society and the Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology of the American Psychological Association. He served as Chair of the Department of Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin from 1999 to 2005, and was the founding Director of the Imaging Research Center, from 2005-2008. His textbook, Principles of Learning and Behavior, is now in its 6th edition and has been widely used for a quarter century in the United States, Canada, and various countries in Europe and South America. After more than 30 years of uninterrupted federal funding for his animal research, Domjan recently closed his laboratory to concentrate on teaching and other scholarly activities.
Courses:
Psy 326K: Principles of Conditioning & Learning
UGS 302: Music and Psychology (Freshman Signature Course)
Psy 391N: Learning and Memory
Psy 194Q: Ethical Issues in Psychology
Books
Domjan, M. Principles of learning and behavior. 6th edition. Cengage/Wadsworth, 2010.
Domjan, M. The principles of learning and behavior: Active learning edition. Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006.
Domjan, M. Essentials of conditioning and learning. 3rd edition. Wadsworth/Thompson Learning, 2005.
Recent Papers
Domjan, M. (2012). Learning and instinct. In N. M. Seel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. New York: Springer.
Domjan, M., Mahometa, M. J., & Matthews, R. N. (2012). Learning in intimate connections: Conditioned fertility and its role in sexual competition. Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, vol. 2, pages 1-10. DOI: 10.3402/snp.v2i0.17333.
Domjan, M., & Akins, C. K. (2011). Applications of Pavlovian conditioning to sexual behavior and reproduction. In T. R. Schachtman and S. Reilly (Eds.), Associative learning and conditioning theory: Human and non-human applications. (pp. 507-531). New York: Oxford University Press.
Gutiérrez, G., & Domjan, M. (2011). Conditioning of sexual proceptivity in female quail: Measures of conditioned place preference. Behavioural Processes, 87, 268-273.
Matthews, R. N., & Domjan, M. (2011). Selecciónsexual: competencia de esperma, sistemas de apareamiento y aprendizaje. In G. Gutiérrez and M. R. Papini (Eds.) Darwin: y las Ciencias del Comportamiento. (pp. 115-136). Bogotá D.C.: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Domjan, M. (2008). Adaptive specializations and generality of the laws of classical and instrumental conditioning. In J. Byrne (Ed.) Learning and Memory: A comprehensive reference. (Vol. 1, Learning and Behavior Theory, R. Menzel, Ed.,pp. 327-340.) Oxford: Elsevier.
Domjan, M. (2008). From taste aversion to sexual conditioning and back: Reflections on 40 years in the lab. Conditioned taste aversion: An annotated bibliography. Highlights, February, 2008, http://www.ctalearning.com/highlights.asp.
