News Release
Psychology professor earns coveted Sidman Award
October 5, 2009
Richard Foxx
For his longtime contribution to the field of applied behavior analysis, Penn State Harrisburg Professor of Psychology Richard Foxx has been named the 2009 winner of the annual Murray Sidman Award.
The award, named in honor of Sidman who wrote the acclaimed Tactics of Scientific Research, will be presented to Foxx Oct. 15 at the annual conference of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy at the University of Massachusetts.
In announcing the award, the association states, “Dr. Foxx is a leader and champion in the field (of applied behavior analysis), a national spokesman, and an author whose books have sold several million copies. Few in our field have not read his work, used interventions he invented, or applied principles he made famous.”
A member of the faculty in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, Foxx is a Fellow in five divisions on the American Psychological Association, is the author of nine books and more than 130 articles, and has given more than 1,500 talks on the use of behavioral principles to treat individuals with autism, mental retardation, mental illness, and emotional disturbances.