J. E. R. Staddon

John Eric Rayner Staddon is a British-born American psychobiologist known for experimental and theoretical research on interval timing, Skinnerian "superstition," and behavioral economics (optimality) in rats, pigeons, and fish—and people. He has been a critic of Skinnerian behaviorism and proposed a theoretically based New Behaviorism." which shows that the state of the organism must be taken into account as well as the stimuli it experiences and the responses it makes.