(Ph.D., Yale)
siegel@mcmaster.ca
905-525-9140, ext.24238 

Our research has been concerned with the general area of Pavlovian conditioning, especially the contribution of such conditioning to physiological and behavioural regulation. Recently, we have been applying conditioning concepts to the understanding of the judgment of contingent relationships.  In this research we are attempting to integrate  associative and signal detection approaches.
 

• Siegel, S.  (2008).  Learning and The Wisdom of the Body.  Learning & Behavior, 36, 242-252. 
• Allan, L.G.. Hannah, S. D., Crump, M. J. C., & Siegel, S.  (2008).  The psychophysics of contingency assessment.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.  137, 226-243.
• Hannah, S., Allan, L. G. and Siegel, S.  (2007). The consequences of surrendering a degree of freedom to the participant in a contingency assessment task.  Behavioural Processes, 74, 265-273
• Allan, L. G., Siegel, S., & Hannah, S.  (2007) The sad truth about depressive realism.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,  60, 482-495.
• Siegel, S.  (2005).  Drug tolerance, drug addiction, and drug anticipation.  Current  Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 296-300.
• Allan, L. G. ,  Siegel, S., & Tangen, J. A. (2005).  A signal-detection analysis of contingency data.  Learning & Behavior, 33, 250-263.
• McDonald, R. V., & Siegel, S.  (2004) The potential role of drug-onset cues in drug dependence and withdrawal.  Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 12, 23-26.
• Allan, L. G., & Siegel, S.  (2002).  A signal detection theory analysis of the placebo effect.  Evaluation and the Health Professions, 25, 410-420.

Dr. Siegel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Society of Experimental Psychologists.  In 1999 he was awarded the title, "Distinguished University Professor".  Dr. Siegel was awarded the 2000 President's Award for Graduate Supervision (Faculties of Science, Health Sciences, and Engineering).  In  2002 he was awarded both the D.O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology, American Psychological Association) and the W. Horsley Gantt Medal (The Pavlovian Society). Dr. Siegel was also awarded the Donald W. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award by the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences in 2006.  He is past Editor of Learning & Behavior.  In 2008, McMaster University awarded Dr. Siegel an honorary D.Sc. Degree