Philip N. Hineline, Ph.D.

 

Email:  hineline@temple.edu
Phone: (215) 204-1573

Interests: Relationships between verbal and nonverbal behavior; resonance as a property of behavior patterns; temporally extended processes in behavioral process; choice between fixed vs. uncertain or diminishing returns; characteristics of explanatory language; functional analysis.

After completing his B.A. at Hamilton College and Ph.D. at Harvard University,  Philip N. Hineline spent three years at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research before moving to Temple University, where he is now a Professor. He routinely teaches at both basic and advanced levels, and maintains a "teaching environment" in his research laboratory, where much of the mentoring occurs between graduate and undergraduate students.  Thanks to the initiative of those students, he has received several awards for excellence in teaching:  In the spring of 1999, he received the Eleanor Hofkin Award for Excellence in Teaching, from the Alumni Association of the College of Arts and Sciences of Temple University. The following year he received Temple's university-wide "Great Teacher Award," and the "Distinguished Teacher Award" from the College of Arts and sciences.  Outside the University, he served first as Associate Editor, as Editor, and then as Review Editor of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior .

He has been President of the Association for Behavior Analysis, International, as well as of Division 25 of the American Psychological Association, and is currently President of the Eastern Psychological Association, and of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.  In 1995 he received the Award for Distinguished Service from the Association for Behavior Analysis, and in 2002, the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Basic Research, from Division 25 of the APA.

His conceptual writing has focused upon the characteristics of explanatory language and the role of those characteristics in the controversies that have confronted behavior analysis.  A longstanding theme of his empirical research has been that of temporal extension in behavioral / psychological processes - as in choice between predictable and unpredictable outcomes, and between immediate vs. delayed consequences.  In recent years, through the interdisciplinary Masters Program in Applied Behavior Analysis that he co-founded and co-directs, his research has come to include applied topics such as interventions for children with autism, remediations for those who have suffered closed-head injury, and skill acquisition for persons who work with those individuals.