Doug Elliffe
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Douglas Mark Elliffe is a New Zealand psychology academic, and as of 2021 is a full professor at the University of Auckland.{{Cite web|url=https://unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz/profile/d-elliffe|title = Professor Douglas Elliffe – the University of Auckland}}
Academic career
After a PhD titled Multiple-schedule performance in closed economies at the University of Auckland, and joined the staff, rising to full professor.
In July 2021, in the context of a review of the NCEA (New Zealand's National Curriculum), Elliffe, along with six other University of Auckland Professors and Emeritus Professors published a controversial letter "In Defence of Science" in the New Zealand Listener.Kendall Clements, Garth Cooper, Michael Corballis, Douglas Elliffe, Robert Nola, Elizabeth Rata, and John Werry. "In Defence of Science." New Zealand Listener, 31 July 2021. p.4
Selected works
- Taylor, Alex H., Douglas Elliffe, Gavin R. Hunt, and Russell D. Gray. "Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277, no. 1694 (2010): 2637–2643.
- Alsop, B. and Elliffe, D., 1988. Concurrent‐schedule performance: Effects of relative and overall reinforcer rate. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 49(1), pp. 21–36.
- Taylor, Alex H., Douglas M. Elliffe, Gavin R. Hunt, Nathan J. Emery, Nicola S. Clayton, and Russell D. Gray. "New Caledonian crows learn the functional properties of novel tool types." PLOS ONE 6, no. 12 (2011): e26887.
- Elliffe, Douglas, and Brent Alsop. "Concurrent choice: Effects of overall reinforcer rate and the temporal distribution of reinforcers." Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 65, no. 2 (1996): 445–463.
- Butler, Rynae, Rebecca J. Sargisson, and Douglas Elliffe. "The efficacy of systematic desensitization for treating the separation-related problem behaviour of domestic dogs." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 129, no. 2-4 (2011): 136–145.
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External links
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Category:21st-century New Zealand psychologists
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Category:University of Auckland alumni
Category:20th-century New Zealand psychologists
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