James W. Kalat

Education

• A.B., 1968, Duke University
  
• Ph.D., 1971, University of Pennsylvania
  

Current Teaching

• Psy 200 Introduction To Psychology
• Psy 430 Biological Psychology
• Psy 533 Biological Factors In Abnormal Behavior

Current research interests:

• Author of two undergraduate textbooks, Introduction to Psychology (4th ed. 1996) and Biological Psychology (5th ed. 1995), both published by Brooks/Cole Publ.

Selected research papers:

Kalat, J.W., & Wurm, T. (in press)

Implications of Recent Research in Biological Psychology for School Psychology. In Reynolds & Gutkin (Eds.), Handbook of School Psychology.

Kalat, J.W. (1996)

Introduction to Psychology, 4th ed. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publ. Co.

Kalat, J.W. (1995)

Biological Psychology Dictionary, 5th ed. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publ. Co.

Kalat, J.W. (1995)

Biological Psychology, 5th ed. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publ. Co.

Kalat, J.W. (1983)

Evolutionary thinking in the history of the comparative psychology of learning. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 7, 309-314.

Kalat, J.W. (1980)

Introducing students to research by use of biographical materials in a comparative-psychology course. Teaching of Psychology, 7, 71-74.

Kalat, J.W. (1979)

Animal models of childhood hyperkinesis. In J. Obiols, C. Ballus, E. Gonzalez Monclus, & J. Pujol (Eds.), Biological Psychology Today (pp. 667-672). Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland.

Kalat, J.W. (1978)

Speculation on similarities between autism and opiate addiction. Journal of Autism & Childhood Schizophrenia, 8, 477-479.

Kalat, J.W. (1977)

Status of learned safety as a mechanism in long-delay learning. In L.M. Barker, M.Best, & M. Domjan (Eds.), Learning Mechanisms in Food Selection (pp. 273-293). Waco, TX: Baylor University.

Kalat, J.W. (1977)

Conditioned food aversions: Biological significance. In N.W. Milgram, L. Krames, & T.M. Alloway (Eds.), Food aversion learning (pp. 73-103). New York: Plenum.