Dr. Elizabeth Capaldi
Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Office: 562 Capen
Phone: (716) 645-2992
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Summary of Research Interests:

Incentives and preference learning in animals and humans.

Representative Publications:

• Capaldi, E. D., Hunter, M. J., & Lyn, S. A. (1997). Conditioning with taste as the CS in conditioned flavor preference learning. Animal Learning and Behavior, 25(4), 427-436.
  
• Capaldi, E. D. (1996). Conditioned food preferences. In Capaldi, E. D. (Ed.), Why we eat what we eat: The psychology of eating. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association.
  
• Roediger, H. L., Capaldi, E. D., Paris, S. G., Policy, J., & Herman, C. P. (1995). Psychology (4th edition). Minneapolis: West Publishing.
  
• Lynn, S. A., & Capaldi, E. D. (1994). Robust conditioned flavor preferences with a sensory preconditioning procedure. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1, 491-493.
  
• Capaldi, E. D., & Hunter, M. J. (1994). Taste and odor in conditioned flavor preference learning. Animal Learning and Behavior, 22, 355-365.
  
• Capaldi, E. D., Owens, J., & Palmer, K. A. (1994). Effects of food deprivation on learning and expression of flavor preferences conditioned by saccharin or sucrose. Animal Learning and Behavior, 22, 173-180.