Gary Greenberg is an American comparative and developmental psychologist who is

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of Psychology at Wichita State University.

Bio

Greenberg was born and raised in

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. He received his

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degree from

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in 1961, followed by an M.A. degree from the University of Wichita in 1964 and a

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from

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in 1970. He then began working with

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in the Department of Animal Behavior at the

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. In 1983, Greenberg co-founded the Southwestern Comparative Psychology Association (with Michael Domjan,

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, and Steve Davis) and the International Society for Comparative Psychology (with Ethel Tobach). After teaching at Wichita State University for 40 years, he retired and moved to

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. As of 2008, Greenberg is a life member of the

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(APA) and secretary of the International Society of Comparative Psychology. In 2015, he received the Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Service to Div. 6 Award from the APA's division 6, the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology.

On Psychiatry

Selected publications

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