One of the biggest strengths of our program is the opportunity for you to work closely with faculty on scholarly research. All of our full-time faculty are active researchers who encourage you to participate in faculty-directed projects or help you develop your own research.
As you can see by the long list of presentations and publications, these collaborative endeavors are quite successful in producing quality research. You can present at professional conferences, at the Council for Undergraduate Research, and right here at MCLA's Undergraduate Research Conference where many Psychology majors present their work every year.
Don't hesitate to contact a faculty member to learn more about their research or to ask about getting involved in a lab!
Schmol, J., Bassallo, E., Walter-Goodspeed, E., & Byrne, T. (2024, October). Selection-based verbal responses have poor correspondence to the odors of commercial cannabis samples. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Worcester, MA.
Walter-Goodspeed, E., Taylor, R., & Byrne, T. (2023, October). Olfactory discrimination of cannabis strains by the laboratory rat. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Worcester, MA.
Sarno, B., & Byrne, T. (2018, October). Response duration is sensitive to both immediate and delayed reinforcement. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Amherst, MA.
Emeligy. K., Nadeau, N., Lamb, B., & Byrne, T. (2018, October). Rats emit idiosyncratic responses while lever holding during fixed-duration schedules. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Amherst, MA.
Sarno, B., & Byrne, T. (2018, November). Behavioral pharmacology in planarians: Phototaxis provides a stable baseline for single-case experimental designs. Poster presented at ABAI Substance Use and Addiction Conference, Washington D.C.
Byrne, T., Peck, S., & Gulotta, K. (2017). Recent research on response duration. Symposium presented at the 6th Annual Massachusetts Association for Applied Behavior Analysis Conference. Marlborough, MA
Taylor, R., Denette, E., Walter Goodspeed, E., & Byrne, T. (2025) Effects of xylazine on locomotion and motor behavior in a planarian model. Behavioural Pharmacology, 36(2-3), 137–143.
Elmeligy, K., Nadeau, N., & Byrne, T. (2020) Analysis of short lever-press durations in rats responding under a fixed-duration schedule. The Psychological Record, 70, 307–315
Valois, M., Peck, S., & Byrne, T. (2017). A comparison of resetting and nonresetting contingencies in progressive-duration schedules. Behavioural Processes. 142, 119-125.
