Edmund Fantino (June 30, 1939 – September 22, 2015) was an American

experimental psychologist Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, in ...

. He was raised in

Queens, New York Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...

before continuing on to earn his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

in 1961, and his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University in 1964. His doctoral adviser was Dick Herrnstein. Fantino was a professor at

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is ...

and was now a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the Neurosciences Group. Some of his honors include being the former president of the

Association for Behavior Analysis International The Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting behavior analysis. The organization has over 9,000 members. The group organizes conferences and publishes journals on the topic of appl ...

, former editor of the

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period *Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...

, fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, Distinguished Service to Behavior Analysis by the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, and several distinguished teaching awards from UCSD. He published numerous articles spanning many topics including the quantitative analysis of behavior, learning and motivation, self-control, choice behavior, among others. He is perhaps most noticeably known for his

Delay Reduction Theory In classical conditioning, the delay reduction hypothesis states that certain discriminative stimuli (DS) are more effective signals for conditioned reinforcers (CR) if they signal a decrease in time to a positive reinforcer or an increase in time t ...

O'Daly & Fantino (2003): Delay Reduction Theory. The Behavior Analyst Today, 4 (2), 141–155. that he first published in JEAB in 1969.

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University of California - San Diego, Faculty
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