Douglas Mark Elliffe is a New Zealand psychology academic, and as of 2021 is a full professor at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

Academic career

After a PhD titled ''Multiple-schedule performance in closed economies'' at the

, and joined the staff, rising to full professor. In July 2021, in the context of a review of the NCEA (New Zealand's National Curriculum), Elliffe, along with six other University of Auckland Professors and Emeritus Professors published a controversial letter "In Defence of Science" in the ''New Zealand Listener.'' Kendall Clements,

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, Douglas Elliffe, Robert Nola,

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, and John Werry. "In Defence of Science." New Zealand Listener, 31 July 2021. p.4

Selected works

* Taylor, Alex H., Douglas Elliffe, Gavin R. Hunt, and Russell D. Gray. "Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277, no. 1694 (2010): 2637–2643. * Alsop, B. and Elliffe, D., 1988. Concurrent‐schedule performance: Effects of relative and overall reinforcer rate. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 49(1), pp. 21–36. * Taylor, Alex H., Douglas M. Elliffe, Gavin R. Hunt, Nathan J. Emery, Nicola S. Clayton, and Russell D. Gray. "New Caledonian crows learn the functional properties of novel tool types." PLOS ONE 6, no. 12 (2011): e26887. * Elliffe, Douglas, and Brent Alsop. "Concurrent choice: Effects of overall reinforcer rate and the temporal distribution of reinforcers." Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 65, no. 2 (1996): 445–463. * Butler, Rynae, Rebecca J. Sargisson, and Douglas Elliffe. "The efficacy of systematic desensitization for treating the separation-related problem behaviour of domestic dogs." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 129, no. 2-4 (2011): 136–145.

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