SETH ROBERTS（羅博思），男，(1953.8 - 2014.4)，清華大學教授。曾任加州大學伯克利分校副教授、加州大學伯克利分校名譽退休教授。
基本介紹
- 中文名：SETH ROBERTS
- 出生日期：1953.8
- 逝世日期：2014.4
- 職業：教師
- 畢業院校：俄勒岡州的波特蘭里德學院
教育背景,工作履歷,學術兼職,研究領域,研究概況,獎勵與榮譽,學術成果,主要發表論文,其他出版,
教育背景
1974，俄勒岡州的波特蘭里德學院心理學學士學位
1979，普羅維登斯、羅德島布朗大學實驗心理學博士學位。
工作履歷
1973，俄勒岡大學醫學院布朗博士Judson研究助手
1978-1985，加州大學伯克利分校助理教授
1985-2007，加州大學伯克利分校副教授
2007，加州大學伯克利分校名譽退休教授
2008，清華大學教授。
學術兼職
在以下學術期刊或者機構擔任評審員：
《美國心理學雜誌》
《動物學習和行為》
《行為神經科學》
《認知科學》
《心理科學近期趨勢》
《實驗心理學期刊:動物行為過程》
《實驗心理學期刊:人類感知和性能、行為研究方法、儀器儀表、計算機、營養、生理、行為、營養、心理評論、心理的方法,實驗心理學季刊》
西方心理學協會
美國國家科學基金會
國家精神衛生研究所
1984-1986《動物學習與行為》諮詢編輯
2004-2007《營養》編輯諮詢委員會
2007 至今 《營養》編輯委員會。
研究領域
營養心理學，自我研究，以自己為被試的實驗方式。
研究概況
其主要研究是關於如何通過研究自己來改善我們的健康。作為一個普通人，不僅僅是科學家,也能做到這一點。達到這種目的主要方式是通過測試不同食物對大腦的不同影響。例如,黃油和亞麻子油能提高大腦功能。自我研究是運用科學來提高自己的生活的方式。隨著信息(例如,科學文章)及科學設備(如,筆記本電腦)比以往都要更加便宜和觸手可及，自我研究也已變得越來越有力,。這種方式將會在未來變得越來越重要。Seth的部分研究是關於如何進行個人研究。和普通民眾如何運用科學來提高自己的生活質量。
獎勵與榮譽
國家科學基金會的獎學金,1974 - 1978。
課題”生物鐘的性能和功能“主要研究人員，獲85000美元國家科學基金會的研究資金, 1979 - 1983。
課題“生物鐘的性能“的主要研究人員，獲國家精神衛生研究所80000美元的研究資金,1983 - 1987。
阿爾弗雷德·斯隆基礎研究獎學金(神經),25000美元($),1986 - 1989。
學術成果
主要發表論文
1. Cunningham, C. L., Brown, J. S., & Roberts, S. (1974). Startbox-goalbox confinement durations as determinants of self-punitive behavior. Learning and Motivation, 7, 340-355.
2. Roberts, S., & Church, R. M. (1978). Control of an internal clock. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 4, 318-337.
3. Roberts, S. (1980). How to check a computer program. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation, 17, 155-156.
4. Maricq, A. V., Roberts, S., & Church, R. M. (1981). Methamphetamine and time estimation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 7, 18-30.
5. Roberts, S. (1981). Isolation of an internal clock. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 7, 242-268.
6. Roberts, S. (1982). Cross-modal use of an internal clock. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 8, 2-22.
7. Roberts, S. (1983). Properties and function of an internal clock. In R. L. Mellegren (Ed.), Animal Cognition and Behavior (pp. 345-397). Amsterdam: North-Holland Press.
8. Roberts, S., & Holder, M. D. (1984). The function of time discrimination and classical conditioning. In J. Gibbon & L. Allan (Eds.), Timing and time perception (pp. 228-241). New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
9. Roberts, S., & Holder, M. D. (1984). What starts an internal clock? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 10, 273-296.
10. Roberts, S. (1984). What then should we do? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 532-533.
11. Holder, M. D., & Roberts, S. (1985). Comparison of timing and classical conditioning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 11, 172-119.
12. Roberts, S., & Holder, M. D. (1985). Effect of classical conditioning on an internal clock. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 11, 194-214.
13. Eberling, J. L., & Roberts, S. (1986). Effect of zona incerta lesions on timing: Application of a new method of functional mapping. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 12, 755.
14. Roberts, S. (1987). Less-than-expected variability in evidence for three stages in memory function. Behavioral Neuroscience, 101, 120-125.
15. Roberts, S. (1987). Evidence for distinct serial processes in animals: The multiplicative-factors method. Animal Learning & Behavior, 15, 135-173.
16. Holder, M. D., & Roberts, S. (1988). Effect of intertrial interval on variable-interval discrete-trial barpressing. Animal Learning & Behavior, 16, 340-353.
17. Roberts, S. (1992). Arising aid (U. S. Patent No. 5,079,682). United States Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office.
18. Roberts, S. (1993). Use of independent and correlated measures to divide a time-discrimination mechanism into parts. In D. E. Meyer & S. Kornblum (Eds.), Attention and Performance XIV: Synergies in experimental psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience--A Silver Jubilee (pp. 589-610). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
19. Roberts, S., & Sternberg, S. (1993). The meaning of additive reaction-time effects: Tests of three alternatives. In D. E. Meyer & S. Kornblum (Eds.), Attention and Performance XIV: Synergies in experimental psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience--A Silver Jubilee (pp. 611-653). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
20. Roberts, S. (1993). Beneath the sums of squares. American Journal of Psychology, 106, 308-320.
21. Roberts, S. (1994). Arising aid (U. S. Patent No. 5,327,331). United States Department of Commerce Patent and Trademark Office.
22. Clarke, S., Ivry, R., Grinband, J., Roberts, S., & Himizu, N. (1996). Exploring the domain of the cerebellar timing system. In M. A. Pastor & J. Artieda (Eds.), Time, internal clocks and movement (pp. 257-280). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
23. Roberts, S. (1998). The mental representation of time: Uncovering a biological clock. In D. Scarborough & S. Sternberg (Eds.), Methods, models, and conceptual issues (pp. 53-106). Vol. 4 in D. N. Osherson (Ed.), An invitation to cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
24. Roberts, S., & Neuringer, A. (1998). Self-experimentation. In K. A. Lattal & M. Perrone (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in human operant behavior (pp. 619-655). New York: Plenum.
25. Roberts, S. (1999). Baer (1998) on self-experimentation. Self-experimentation Self-control Communications, 10(2), 1-3.
26. Roberts, S., & Pashler, H. (2000). How persuasive is a good fit? A comment on theory testing. Psychological Review, 107, 358-367.
27. Gharib, A., Derby, S., & Roberts, S. (2001). Timing and the control of variation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 27, 165-178.
28. Roberts, S. (2001). Surprises from self-experimentation: Sleep, mood, and weight. Chance, 14 (2), 7-12.
29. Roberts, S. (2001). Rejoinder. Chance, 14 (2), 15.
30. Roberts, S., & Pashler, H. (2002). Reply to Rodgers & Rowe (2002). Psychological Review, 109, 605-607.
31. Roberts, S., & Temple, N. (2002). Medical research: A bettor’s guide. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 23, 231-232.
32. Carpenter, K. J., Roberts, S., & Sternberg, S. (2003). Nutrition and immune function: Problems with a 1992 report. The Lancet, 361, 2247.
33. Roberts, S., & Sternberg, S. (2003). Do nutritional supplements improve cognitive function in the elderly? Nutrition, 19, 976-980.
34. Roberts, S. (2004). Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: Examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 227-262.
35. Roberts, S. (2004). Self-experimentation: Friend or foe? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 275-287.
36. Gharib, A., Gade, C., & Roberts, S. (2004). Control of variation by reward probability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 4, 271-282.
37. Roberts, S. (2005, September). Diversity in learning. Ideas That Matter, 3 (3), 39-43.
38. Roberts, S. (2006). Dealing with scientific fraud: A proposal. Public Health Nutrition, 9, 664-665.
39. Roberts, S., & Gharib, A. (2006). Variation of bar-press duration: Where do new responses come from? Behavioural Processes.
40. Sternberg, S., & Roberts, S. (2006). Nutritional supplements and infection in the elderly: Why do the findings conflict? Nutrition Journal, 5, 30.
41. Roberts, S. (2007). Something is better than nothing. Nutrition, 23, 911-912.
42. Gelman, A., & Roberts, S. (2007). Weight loss, self-experimentation, and web trials: A conversation. Chance, 20(4), 59-63.
43. Roberts, S. (2008). Transform your data. Nutrition, 24, 492-494.
44. Roberts, S. (2009). Plot your data. Nutrition, 25, 608-611.
45. Stahlman, W., Roberts, S., & Blaisdell, A. (2010). Effect of reward probability on spatial and temporal variation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 36, 77-91.
46. Roberts, S. (2010). The unreasonable effectiveness of my self-experimentation. Medical Hypotheses, 75, 482-489. On-line publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2010.04.030
47. Roberts, S. (2010). The value of self-experimentation. In T. Ferriss, The Four-Hour Body. New York: Crown Publishing. Pp. 468-473.
48. Roberts, S. (2010). An alternative to dieting: The body-fat set point and Shangri-La. On T. Ferriss, The Four-Hour Body website: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Alternative-to-Dieting.pdf.
49. Roberts, S. (in press). The reception of my self-experimentation. Journal of Business Research.。
其他出版
1. Roberts, S. (1987, March 26). The new animal facility is needed. The Daily Californian, p. 4.
2. Roberts, S. (1988). The birth of art. The Nabokovian, 20, 19-20.
3. Roberts, S. (1988, December). [Letter to the editor of The New Yorker]. Spy, p. 54.
4. Roberts, S. (1988, December 17). Someone a target [Letter to the editor]. Kitschener-Waterloo Record, p. 47.
5. Roberts, S. (1989, February). "If there's one thing Ellsworth can't stand, it's talking-dog-on-desert-island cartoons." Spy, p. 34. [no volume or issue number available]
6. Roberts, S. (1989, May). [Letter to the editor of The New Yorker]. Spy, p. 54.
7. Roberts, S. (1989, June). [Letter to the editor]. Spy, p. 10.
8. Beatty, B., Roberts, S., & Mastrianni, J. (1989, September). Where's the LET'S HAVE LUNCH key? Spy, p. 68.
9. Roberts, S. (1989, December). How to get published in The New Yorker. Spy, p. 48.
10. Roberts, S. (1990, February). Only the slightly imperfect need apply. Spy, p. 40.
11. Roberts, S. (1990, July). Lab rat: What AIDS researcher Dr. Robert Gallo did in pursuit of the Nobel Prize, and what he didn't do in pursuit of a cure for AIDS. Spy, pp. 70-79.
12. Roberts, S. (1990, November). [Letter to the editor]. Spy, p. 14
13. Roberts, S. (1994, August 28). Out of silence [letter to the editor]. Washington Post Book World, vol 26, no. 35, p. 10.
14. Roberts, S. (1995, May/June). Department of subtle differences, Part 1: What are you, a comedian? Spy, 9 (3), p. 20.
15. Roberts, S. (1996, June 5-11). [letter to the editor]. NYPress, p. 12.
16. Roberts, S. (1997, July 26). [letter to the editor]. Science News, 152 (4), p. 51.
17. Roberts, S. (2006). The Shangri-La Diet: The Eat Anything No Hunger Weight-Loss Plan. New York: Perigee. Translated into 8 other languages. Paperback edition, significantly different, published in 2007.。
