Aquire Grant-Writing
Skills
Learn to ask important questions and design studies to advance scientific knowledge and acquire the skills needed to fund your research after you leave USU. These grant-writing skills will allow you to sustain your own research line as you pursue your career.
Contribute to the Literature
Conduct experiments and interventions that will contribute to the scientific literature of behavior analysis. Present posters and talks at conferences, as well as publish articles in peer-reviewed journals. Students often publish 10 or more articles during their time in our graduate program.
Interdisciplinary and Translation Research
Learn and conduct research in an environment that facilitates the translation of research to everyday problems. The translational implications of these research projects extend to areas like substance-use disorders, treatment relapse, behavior interventions, and preventing patterns of impulsivity.
Coursework Opportunities
Courses are taught by researchers who stay abreast of and contribute to the cutting-edge advances in their field. You will participate in weekly graduate seminar meetings at which students and specialization faculty discuss contemporary research articles. These discussions often result in new research projects.
Assistant Professor - Behavior Analysis Specialization
Professor - Brain & Cognition and Behavior Analysis Specializations
Submit the following to the School of Graduate Studies:
Admission Criteria:
Applications are due by December 1st.
This specialization will be conducting invitation only interviews of applicants in-person on January 26th.
The Behavioral Economics Lab at Utah State University explores how human and nonhuman behavior may be positively influenced through curated environmental design. Our research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIDA and NICHD) and the US Department of Agriculture.
The Shahan lab focuses on quantitative analyses of conditioning and learning. Common topics of investigation are choice, behavioral momentum theory, relapse of extinguished behavior (resurgence, reinstatement, renewal), conditioned reinforcement, and attention.
The CB lab is engaged in collaborative and independent research projects that span across basic and applied domains of behavior analysis. We aim to improve outcomes for children and their families through research, teaching, and outreach.
Delay Discounting/Impulsivity, Environmental Factors Influencing the Development of Tolerance and Sensitization to Drugs of Abuse, Drug and Environmental Influences on Timing/Temporal Discrimination.
Saba Mahmoudi - Behavior Analysis
Saba Mahmoudi is a student in the Behavior Analysis Ph.D. program and works with Dr. Gregory Madden. Saba received her BA in psychology from California State University, Northridge. Her research interests include delay discounting and reducing impulsive choices to prevent severe problem behavior and promote good decision-making. Saba is passionate about teaching and hopes to work in academia conducting translational research. My goals are to disseminate behavioral analysis and to promote interdisciplinary practices.
Saba shares how she decided USU was the right place for her and her future goals in the field of psychology.
The USU Behavior Analysis program is hosting a virtual open house for applicants interested in furthering their education in the field of psychology. This event is an excellent opportunity to connect directly with faculty members and learn how to make you...
Dr. Andrew Craig, a distinguished professor at SUNY Upstate Medical University, has been appointed as the next President of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 25: Behavior Analysis. His term, starting in 2025, will mark a new chapter ...
Amy Odum, a professor of Psychology in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services at Utah State University, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of a lifetime achievement award by the American Psychological Association (APA) in Divis...
