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Dr Anthony Paul McLean

Psychology

Fields of Research

  • Criminal behaviour: prediction of individual criminal behaviour
  • Operant behaviour: multiple or concurrent schedule performances, animal psychophysics and memory

Researcher Summary

Research interests include experimental analysis of the control of behaviour by its consequences, behavioural resistance to change and its relation to stable-state, performance, acquisition of preference in choice situations and modelling of dynamics in the fine structure of reinforced responding.

Research Projects

Key Methodologies

  • Criminal behaviour: prediction of individual criminal behaviour
  • Operant behaviour: multiple or concurrent schedule performances, animal psychophysics and memory

Publications


  • McLean, A., Grace, R., Pitts, R. and Hughes, C. (2012) Not preference, not pulses, and not instigated by reinforcement. Columbia, SC, USA: South Eastern Association for Behavior Analysis, 11-13 Oct 2012. (Conference Contribution - Poster presentation)
  • McLean, A.P., Grace, R.C. and Nevin, J.A. (2012) Response strength in extreme multiple schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 97(1): 51-70. http://dx.doi.org/10/1901/jeab.2012.97-51. (Journal Article)
  • Cording, J.R., McLean, A.P. and Grace, R.C. (2011) Testing the linearity and independence assumptions of the generalized matching law for reinforcer magnitude: A residual meta-analysis. Behavioural Processes 87(1): 64-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2011.02.011. (Journal Article)
  • McLoughlin, N., Rucklidge, J.R., Grace, R.C. and McLean, A.P. (2010) Can Callous-Unemotional Traits and Aggression Identify Children at High-Risk of Anti-Social Behavior in a Low Socioeconomic Group? Journal of Family Violence 25(8): 701-712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-010-9320-x. (Journal Article)
  • Cording, J., McLean, A. and Grace, R. (2010) Reinforcer magnitude and the generalised matching law. San Antonio, TX, USA: 33rd Annual Conference of the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior, 27-29 May 2010. http://www.sqab.org/sqab2010program.pdf. (Conference Contribution - Poster presentation)
  • McLean, A.P. (2010) Resistance to change of choice. San Antonio, TX, USA: Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior (SQAB) 2010, 27-29 May 2010. http://www.sqab.org/sqab2010program.pdf. (Conference Contribution - Poster presentation)
  • Mattson, K.M., Hucks, A., Grace, R.C. and McLean, A.P. (2010) Signaled and Unsignaled Terminal Links in Concurrent Chains I: Effects of Reinforcer Probability and Immediacy. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 94(3): 327-352. http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2010.94-327. (Journal Article)
  • Rucklidge, J.J., McLean, A.P. and Bateup, P. (2009) Can reading comprehension predict recidivism in offending youth? Seattle, WA, USA: International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (ISRCAP) Fourteenth Scientific Meeting, 17-20 Jun 2009. (Conference Contribution - Poster presentation)
  • Rucklidge, J.J., McLean, A.P. and Bateup, P. (2009) Criminal Offending and Learning Disabilities in New Zealand Youth: Does Reading Comprehension Predict Recidivism? Crime & Delinquency (early access online) http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128709336945. (Journal Article)
  • Scoones, C., Hucks, A., McLean, A.P. and Grace, R.C. (2009) Effects of free food deliveries and temporal contiguity on choice under concurrent-chain schedules. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 16(4): 736-741. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PBR.16.4.736. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A.P., Grace, R.C. and Nevin, J.A. (2008) Performance in Extreme Multiple Schedules. Chicago, IL, USA: 34th Annual ABAI Convention, 22-24 May 2008. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Grace, R., McLean, A. and Warren, J. (2008) Phase 2 of the Reducing Youth Offending Pilot. Ministry of Social Development. 137pp. (Report for External Body)
  • Ta, W-M., Pitts, R.C., Hughes, C.E., McLean, A.P. and Grace, R.C. (2008) Rapid Acquisition of Preference in Concurrent Chains: Effects of d-Amphetamine on Sensitivity to Reinforcement Delay. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 89(1): 71-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2008.89-71. (Journal Article)
  • McLoughlin, N., Rucklidge, J.J., Grace, R. and McLean, A. (2007) A longitudinal study into risk and protective factors for youth offending: First wave data. London, UK: Second International Conference on Child and Adolescent Psychopathy, 5-6 Jul 2007. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Sutton, N.P., Grace, R.C., McLean, A.P. and Baum, W.M. (2007) Comparing the Generalized Matching Law and Contingency Discriminability Model as Accounts of Concurrent Schedule Performance. San Diego, CA, USA: Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (SQAB) 30th Annual Meeting, 24-26 May 2007. http://sqab.psychology.org/sqab-program-2007.pdf. (Conference Contribution - Poster presentation)
  • Tan, L.C.M., Grace, R.C., Holland, S. and McLean, A.P. (2007) Numerical reproduction in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 33(4): 409-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.33.4.409. (Journal Article)
  • Nevin, J.A. and McLean, A.P. (2006) A Unified Model of Response Rates and Resistance to Change in Multiple and Concurrent Schedules. Atlanta, GA, USA: Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (SQAB) 2006, 26-27 May 2006. http://www.sqab.org/sqab-program-2006.pdf. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Grace, R., McLean, A. and Warren, J. (2006) An Evaluation of the Reducing Youth Offending Programme. Departments of Child, Youth and Family and Corrections. 329pp. (Report for External Body)
  • Grace, R.C. and McLean, A.P. (2006) Rapid Acquisition in Concurrent Chains: Evidence for a Decision Model. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 85(2): 181-202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1901/jeab.2006.72-04. (Journal Article)
  • Grace, R.C. and McLean, A.P. (2005) Integrated versus segregated accounting and the magnitude effect in temporal discounting. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 12: 732-739. (Journal Article)
  • Grace, R.C. and McLean, A.P. (2005) RYOP Outcome Evaluation – Interim Report. Department of Child Youth and Family Services. 145 pp. (Report for External Body)
  • Grace, R.C., Bragason, O. and McLean, A.P. (2003) Rapid acquisition of preference in concurrent chains. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 80(2) (Journal Article)
  • Grace, R.C., McLean, A.P. and Nevin, J.A. (2003) Reinforcement context and resistance to change. Behavioural Processes 64(01) (Journal Article)
  • Grace, R.C., McLean, A.P. and Bragason, O. (2002) Can altruism be understood in terms of socially discounted extrinsic reinforcement? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25(2): 259-260. (Journal Article)
  • Nevin, J.A., McLean, A. P. and Grace, R.C. (2001) Resistance to extinction: Contingency termination and generalization decrement. Animal Learning & Behavior 29(2): 176--91. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. and Blampied, N. M. (2001) Sensitivity to relative reinforcer rate in concurrent schedules: Independence from relative and absolute reinforcer durations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 75(1): 25--42. (Journal Article)
  • Nevin, J. A., Grace, R. C., Holland, S. and McLean, A. P. (2001) Variable-ratio versus variable-interval schedules: Response rate, resistance to change and preference. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 76: 43--74. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D.N., McLean, A.P. and Dalrymple-Alford, J.C. (1998) Medial-septum lesions do not increase the susceptibility of rats to retroactive interference in a delayed matching-to-sample task. Neuroscience Research Communications 22: 117-26. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. and Grace, R. C. (1998) Offender Management: A proposal for cost-effective management of offenders.. 346. (Report for External Body)
  • Rau, J. C., Pickering, L. D. and McLean, A. P. (1996) Resistance to change as a function of concurrent reinforcer magnitude. Behavioural Processes 38: 253-264. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P., Campbell-Tie, P. and Nevin, J. A. (1996) Resistance to change as a function of stimulus-reinforcer and location-reinforcer contingencies.. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 66: 169-191. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. (1995) Contrast, reallocation, component duration and the baseline rate of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 63: 203-224. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D. N., McLean, A. P. and Dalrymple-Alford, J. C. (1995) Forgetting in rats following medial septum or mammillary body damage. Behavioral Neuroscience 108: 1-12. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. and Blampied, N. M. (1995) Resistance to reinforcement change in multiple and concurrent schedules assessed in transition and at steady state. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 63: 1-17. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. and Morritt, C. F. (1994) Contrast and undermatching with regular and irregular alternation of components. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 61: 407-416. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D.N., McLean, A.P. and Dalrymple-Alford, J.C. (1994) Forgetting in rats following medial septum or mamillary body damage. Behavioral Neuroscience 108(4): 691-702. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.108.4.691. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D. N., McLean, A. P. and Dalrymple-Alford, J. C. (1994) List item memory in rats: effects of delay and delay task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 19: 307-316. (Journal Article)
  • Hudson, S. M., Marshall, W. L., Wales, D., McDonald, E., Bakker, L. W. and McLean, A. P. (1993) Emotional recognition skills of sex offenders. Annals of sex research 6: 199-211. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D.N., McLean, A.P. and Dalrymple-Alford, J.C. (1993) List item memory in rats: Effects of delay and delay task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 19(4): 307-316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.19.4.307. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D.N., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C. and McLean, A.P. (1993) The effect of medial septal and mammillary body lesions on the serial position curve in rats. Psychobiology 21: 130-138. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D. N., Dalrymple-Alford, J. C. and McLean, A. P. (1993) The effect of medial septal and mammillary body lesions on the serial position curve in rats. Psychobiology 21: 130-138. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. (1992) Contrast and reallocation of extraneous reinforcers between multiple schedule components. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 58: 497-511. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D. N., Dalrymple-Alford, J. C. and McLean, A. P. (1992) Production of a serial position effect in rats using a twelve arm radial maze. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 44: 197-207. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D.N., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C. and McLean, A.P. (1992) Production of a serial position effect in rats using a twelve-arm radial maze. 44 Journal of Neuroscience Research Methods(2-3): 197-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0165-0270(92)90011-2. (Journal Article)
  • Harper, D. N. and McLean, A. P. (1992) Resistance to change and the law of effect. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 57: 317-337. (Journal Article)
  • White, K. G., ALsop, B. and McLean, A. P. (1992) Successive independence and behavioral contrast in a closed economy. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 58: 313-323. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. (1991) Local contrast in behavior allocation during multiple schedule components. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 56: 81-95. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. (1988) Screening for alcoholism in New Zealand prison inmates. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 21: 45-57. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. (1988) Successive independence of multiple schedule component performances. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 49: 117-141. (Journal Article)
  • White, K. G., McLean, A. P. and Aldiss, M. F. (1986) The context for reinforcement: Modulation of the response-reinforcer relation by concurrently-available extraneous reinforcement. Animal Learning & Behavior 14: 398-404. (Journal Article)
  • White, K. G., Pipe, M-E. and McLean, A. P. (1985) A note on the measurement of stimulus discriminability in conditional discriminations. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 23: 153-155. (Journal Article)
  • White, K. G., Pipe, M-E., McLean, A. P. and Redman, S. (1985) Temporal factors in successive discrimination. New Zealand Journal of Psychology 15: 78-82. (Journal Article)
  • White, K. G., McLean, A. P., Pipe, M-E. and Redman, S. (1985) Temporal proximity and reinforcement sensitivity in multiple schedules. journal of the Expeirmental Analysis of Behavior 44: 207-215. (Journal Article)
  • White, K. G., Pipe, M-E. and McLean, A. P. (1983) Dimensional stimulus control of multiple schedule performance. Behaviour Analysis Letters 3: 51-57. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. (1983) Independence of successive human concurrent performances. Behaviour Analysis Letters 3: 275-284. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. and White, K. G. (1983) Temporal constraint on choice: Undermatching and bias in multiple schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 39: 405-426. (Journal Article)
  • McLean, A. P. and White, K.G. (1981) Undermatching and contrast within components of multiple schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 35: 283-291. (Journal Article)