Eric A. Jacobs

Eric A. Jacobs, Ph.D., completed his graduate training in experimental psychology at the University of Florida in 1997. Upon leaving Florida, Dr. Jacobs completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vermont where he researched buprenorphine pharmacology as related to addiction treatment. His research interests include human operant behavior, quantitative analyses of choice and decision making (e.g., delay discounting, "self-control", and "impulsivity"), behavioral economics, behavioral ecology, and behavioral pharmacology.

Eric A. Jacobs

Associate Professor of Psychology

Director of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Program

Department of Psychology
Life Sciences II
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-6502

Phone: (618) 453-3555
Fax: (618) 453-3563
E-mail: eajacobs@siu.edu

Selected Recent Publications:

Dixon, M.R., Jacobs, E.A., Sanders, S., Guercio, J.M., Soldner, J., Parker-Singler, S., Robinson, A., Small, S., & Dillen, J.E. (2005). Impulsivity, self-Control, and delay discounting in persons with acquired brain injury. Behavioral Interventions, 20, 101-120.

Marsch, L.A., Bickel, W.K., Badger, G.J., & Jacobs, E.A. (2005). Buprenorphine treatment for opioid dependence: The relative efficacy of daily, twice and thrice weekly dosing. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 77, 195-204.

Giordano, L.A., Bickel, W.K. Loewenstein, G., Jacobs, E.A., Marsch, L., & Badger, G.J. (2002). Mild opioid deprivation increases the degree that opioid-dependent outpatients discount delayed heroin and money. Psychopharmacology, 163, 174-182.

Gross, A., Jacobs, E.A., Petry, N.M., Badger, G.J., & Bickel, W.K. (2001). Limits to buprenorphine dosing: A comparison between quintuple and sextuple the maintenance dose every 5 days. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 64, 111-116.

Jacobs, E.A. & Hackenberg, T.D. (2000). Human performance on negative slope schedules of points exchangeable for money: A failure of molar maximization. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73, 241-260. Electronic reprint.

Madden, G.J., Bickel, W.K., & Jacobs, E.A. (2000). Three predictions of the economic concept of unit price in a choice context. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 73, 45-64.

Jacobs, E.A. & Bickel, W. K. (1999). Modeling drug consumption in the clinic using simulation procedures: Demand for heroin and cigarettes in opioid-dependent outpatients. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 7, 412-426.

Jacobs, E.A. & Bickel, W.K. (1999). Precipitated withdrawal in an opioid-dependent outpatient receiving alternate-day buprenorphine dosing. Addiction, 94, 140-141.

Madden, G.J., Bickel, W.K. & Jacobs, E.A. (1999). Discounting of delayed rewards in opioid-dependent outpatients: Exponential or hyperbolic discounting functions. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 7,284-293.

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