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David N. Kearns, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail: dk0085a@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1725
Office: Asbury building (South Wing), room 110

Education:

B.A., Rutgers University, 1997

M.A., American University, 2000

Ph.D., American University, 2005

Representative Publications:

Kearns, D. N., & Weiss, S. J. (2007). Recovery of Pavlovian sign-tracking (autoshaping) following the discontinuation of explicitly unpaired food presentation in rats. Behavioural Processes, 75, 307-311.

 

Kearns, D. N., Gomez-Serrano, M. A., Weiss, S. J., & Riley, A. L. (2006). A comparison of Lewis and Fischer rat strains on autoshaping (sign-tracking), discrimination reversal learning, and negative automaintenance. Behavioural Brain Research, 169, 193-200.

 

Kearns, D. N., Weiss, S. J., Schindler, C. W., & Panlilio, L. V. (2005). Conditioned inhibition of cocaine seeking in rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31, 247-253.

 

Kearns, D. N., & Weiss, S. J. (2004). Sign-tracking (autoshaping) in rats: a comparison of food and cocaine as unconditioned stimuli. Learning & Behavior, 32, 463-476.

 

Kearns, D. N., Weiss, S. J., & Panlilio, L. V. (2002). Conditioned suppression of behavior maintained by cocaine self-administration. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 65, 253-261.

Overall research interests:

Conditioning, learning, & behavior; drug addiction; conditioned inhibition; sign-tracking; context renewal; reinstatement; resurgence; extinction; theories of learning; drug abuse treatment models