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Richard Yi, Ph. D.

Richard Yi, Ph. D. Instructor

4301 West Markham Street, Slot 843
Little Rock, AR 72205
Phone: 501-526-7882
Fax: 501-526-7816

ryi@uams.edu

Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Stony Brook University, 2002
M.A., Experimental Psychology, Stony Brook University, 1999
B.A., Psychology, English, Lafayette College, 1996

Richard Yi has been with the Center for Addiction Research since 2004, where he began as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and is now Instructor of Psychiatry and a research scientist in the Center for Addiction Research. His general interest is in the basic behavioral processes involved in drug dependence. These include temporal, probability, and interpersonal discounting, as well as economic games. Dr. Yi also collaborates with Dr. Bickel on projects examining temporal discounting in drug-dependent populations.

Research Projects

Discounting by Smokers in Nicotine Withdrawal

Interpersonal Discounting

Impulsivity in Drug Dependence: Delay Discounting (Warren K. Bickel, PI)

Selected Publications

Yi. R., Gatchalian, K. M., & Bickel, W. K. (in press). Discounting of Past Rewards. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Bickel, W. K. & Yi, R. (2006). What came first? Comment on Dom et al. Addiction, 101, 291-292.

 

Yi, R. & Bickel W. K. (2005). Representation of Odds in Terms of Frequencies Reduces Probability Discounting. The Psychological Record, 55, 577-593.

 

Yi, R., Johnson, M. W., & Bickel, W. K. (2005). Relationship Between Cooperation in an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game and the Discounting of Hypothetical Outcomes. Learning and Behavior, 33, 324-336.

Yi, R. & Rachlin, H. (2004). Contingencies of Reinforcement in a 5-Person Prisoner’s Dilemma. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 82, 161-176.

 



 
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