John Eric Rayner Staddon is a British-born American psychologist.
[1] John Staddon conducted theoretical behaviorism research in adaptive function, mechanisms of learning, and optimality theories.
He completed his graduate work at the Skinner Lab in Harvard in the 1960s, with Richard Herrnstein.
[2] Educated first at University College London, a three-year period interrupted by two years[3] in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.
After graduation from UCL, he went to the U. S., to Hollins College in Hollins, Virginia for a year, and then to Harvard University where he studied under Richard Herrnstein, obtaining his PhD in Experimental Psychology in 1964 with a thesis The effect of "knowledge of results" on timing behavior in the pigeon.