Anthony J. Dickinson, FRS (born 17 February 1944)[1] is a British
psychologist, currently Emeritus Professor of Comparative Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the
University of Cambridge.[2] He is the author of the highly cited monograph Contemporary Animal Learning Theory and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003 for "internationally recognised contributions to our understanding of learning, memory, motivation and planning".[3]
Academic career
Dickinson graduated in psychology from the
University of Manchester in 1967[4] and earned a PhD at the University of Sussex in 1971,[4][5] continuing his academic career there as a postdoctoral assistant to
Nicholas Mackintosh.[6] He moved to the Department of Experimental Psychology at Cambridge in 1977, where he lectured in associative learning.[6] He became professor in 1999 and has been emeritus professor and a fellow of
Hughes Hall since his retirement in 2011.[1]
^Workman, Lance (6 February 2017).
"'The turf wars in psychology have been as intellectually silly as they have been disastrous'". The Psychologist. The British Psychological Society. Retrieved 13 September 2023. Famous and infamous in equal measure, Sussex in the 1960s, sometimes called 'Oxford-by-the-Sea', was definitely the place to be! Amongst students, my contemporaries included Richard Morris, of Morris maze fame, Lorraine Tyler, Tony Dickinson and Graham Hitch, of Baddeley/Hitch working memory fame
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abEveritt, Barry J; Dickinson, Anthony; Robbins, Trevor W (October 2001). "The neuropsychological basis of addictive behaviour". Brain Research Reviews. 36 (2–3): 129–138.
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10.1016/s0165-0173(01)00088-1.
ISSN0165-0173.
PMID11690609.
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abDickinson, A; Balleine, B (2010). "4: Hedonics: The Cognitive–Motivational Interface". In Kringelbach, M; Berridge, K (eds.).
Pleasures of the Brain. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 74–84.
ISBN978-0-19-533102-8. Retrieved 13 January 2024.