PAUL K. BRANDON
Curriculum Vitae

Personal

Born: 5-3-41

Married (Judi): 6-22-67

Sons: Joshua <http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~holden/> (6-4-70) and
Daniel <http://www.m-w.com/>( 7-11-74)

Home Address:
10 Crown Hill Lane, Mankato, MN 56001 ph: (507)387-4945

Office Address:
Department of Psychology, 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001, ph: (507)389-6217

email: paul.brandon@mnsu.edu
www: http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~pkbrando/

Education

A.B.: Brown University, 1963, with Honors in Psychology (Lorrin Riggs, Advisor)

Ph.D.: University of Michigan, in Experimental Psychology

(Dissertation: Effects of error-contingent timeout on counting behavior in rats. C. R. Schuster, Chair)

Positions Held

1981 to present: Professor of Psychology (tenured), Minnesota State University, Mankato
1972-1981: Associate Professor of Psychology (tenured), M.S.U.
1971-1972: Associate Professor of Psychology, M.S.U.
1969-1971: Assistant Professor of Psychology, M.S.U.
1968-1969: Assistant and Associate in Research with Dr.S.P.Hicks, University of Michigan Medical School Pathology Department; in charge of rat operant conditioning unit.
1963-1968: Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan Department of Psychology; teaching Introductory and Experimental Psychology.

Memberships in Professional Associations

International Association for Behavior Analysis
National Center for Science Education
Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior

Publications

Brandon, Paul K. (in preparation). Behavior of the listener: Dichotomies True and False

David C. Palmer, John Eshleman, Paul Brandon, T. V. Joe Layng, Christopher McDonough, Jack Michael, Ted Schoneberger, Nathan Stemmer, Ray Weitzman, Matthew Normand (2004). Dialogue on Private Events. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, Volume 20, 2004.

Brandon, Paul K. (2004). Review of 'Days of Great Illumination: B.F. Skinner in the Gold Medal Flour Mill'. Verbal Behavior Newsletter, 4(1)

Brandon, P. K. & Houlihan, D. (1997). Applying Behavioral Theory to Practice: An Examination of the Behavioral Momentum Metaphor. Behavioral Interventions, 12(3), 113-131.

Houlihan, D. & Brandon, P. K. (1996). Compliant in a Moment: A Commentary on Nevin. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis., 29, 549-555

Houlihan, D., Jacobson, L., & Brandon, P. K. (1994). Replication of a high-probability request sequence with varied interprompt times in a preschool setting. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 27, 737-739.

Brandon, Paul K. A Signal Detection Analysis of Counting Behavior (1981). in Quantitative Analysis of Behavior vol.I, Michael Commons and John A. Nevin, eds., Ballinger,

Brandon, Paul K. Ethanol and Water Polydipsia During Discrimination Training. 1973 APA Proceedings.

Brandon, Paul K. Reinforcer-density-change Schedule of Reinforcement. 1971 APA Proceedings.

Numerous presentations at professional meetings:

Brandon, Paul K. LABORATORY MANUAL FOR BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENTS. Privately published under many revisions for the past 25 years. Available on my Web site.

Computer software for classroom and research use; freely available via my Web page.

Committee Activity

I have been the Chair of the Psychology Department Personnel Committee for the past fifteen years.

I have served on numerous other committees at the college, departmental and university levels.

I am also the Director of the Psychology Department Animal (rat) facility and a member of the M.S.U. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.

I serve on the Institutional Review Board for the Regional Science Fair.

Updated January 26, 2006