Dr. Jeffrey Weatherly

Email: jeffrey.weatherly@und.nodak.edu

Teaching

I teach classes at both the undergraduate and graduate level. I spent the last six years as the department chairperson, which entailed a decrease in my teaching load. Now that I am no longer chairperson, you can anticipate seeing me instruct courses from the following list:

• Introduction to Psychology
• Educational Psychology
• Behavior Modification and Therapy
• Theories of Learning
• Readings in Psychology (online students only)

Advising

As a psychology major, you want to make sure that you not only meet the requirements for graduation, but also take the courses that prepare you for the next stage of your life. When you declare a major or minor in psychology (which is accomplished by going to the office of the College of Arts & Sciences in Montgomery Hall), you will be assigned an advisor. If I am your advisor, or if you simply want my advice, contact me to set up an appointment. Email is the best way to get in contact with me (jeffrey.weatherly@und.nodak.edu ).

Research

My main research focus is on the factors that contribute to gambling behavior and I and my research team study gambling in a controlled, laboratory setting. Recent studies have looked at the influence of alcohol or nicotine on participants' play, the effect of the presence of other gamblers, the result of providing accurate information about slot machines on subsequent gambling, and the connection between temporal discounting and actual gambling behavior.

If you have an interest in serving as a research assistant for upcoming studies, please feel free to contact me to discuss the possibilty.

Recent Publications

Austin, D.P., Ferraro, F.R., Kerzman, R., Petros, T.V., & Weatherly, J.N. (in press).   Short duration time estimation: Effects of gender, type of person, and time of day. In A.M. Columbus (ed.) Advances in Psychology Research. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publications, Inc.

Dannewitz, H., & Weatherly, J.N. (2007).   Investigating the illusion of control in mildly depressed and nondepressed individuals during video-poker play. The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 141, 307-319.

Derenne, A., Arsenault, M.L., Austin, D.P., & Weatherly, J.N. (2007).   Weaver mutant mice exhibit long-term learning deficits under several measures of instrumental behavior. Physiology & Behavior, 92, 1002-1009.

Dixon, M. R., & Weatherly, J. N. (2007). An integrative, not necessarily comprehensive, behavioral model of gambling. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 1, 30-33

Gillis, A., McDonald, J.D., & Weatherly, J.N. (2008).   American Indians and non-Indians playing a slot-machine simulation: Effects of sensation seeking and payback percentage. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 15, 18-32.

McDougall, C.L., McDonald, J.D., & Weatherly, J.N. (2008).   The gambling behavior of American Indian and non-Indian participants: Effects of the actions and ethnicity of a confederate. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 14, 59-74.

Meier, E., & Weatherly, J. N. (2008). The effects of nicotine on gambling behavior of smoking and nonsmoking undergraduate students. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 2, 143-147.

Miller, J.C., Meier, E., Muehlenkamp, J., & Weatherly, J.N. (in press).   Testing the validity of Dixon & Johnson's (2007) gambling functional assessment. Behavior Modification.

Miller, J.C., Meier, E., & Weatherly, J. N. (2009). Assessing the reliability of the Gambling Functional Assessment. Journal of Gambling Studies, 25, 121-129.

Weatherly, J.N., Austin, D.P., & Farwell, K. (2007).  The role of prior experience when people gamble on three different video-poker games.  Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 1, 34-43.

Weatherly, J.N., & Derenne, A. (in press).  Rats Playing a Slot Machine: A Preliminary Attempt at an Animal Gambling Model.  Analysis of Gambling Behavior.

Weatherly, J. n., Derenne, A., & Chase, S. (2008). Do the risk factors for pathological gambling predict temporal discounting? Analysis of Gambling behavior, 2, 25-34.

Weatherly, J.N., & Dixon, M.R. (2007).  Toward an integrative behavioral model of gambling.  Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 1, 4-18.

Weatherly, J.N., & Flannery, K.A. (2008). Facing the challenge: The behavior analysis of gambling. Behavior Analyst Today, 9, 130-142.

Weatherly, J.N., Grove, C., & Beste, R. (2007).  The influence of upcoming food-pellet delivery on subjects’ responding for 1% sucrose reinforcement delivered by concurrent random-interval schedules.  The Journal of General Psychology, 134, 121-131. 

Weatherly, J.N., Huls, A., & Kulland, A. (2007).  Pursuing the Pavlovian contributions to induction in rats responding for 1% sucrose reinforcement.  The Psychological Record, 57, 577-592.

Weatherly, J.N., Marino, J.M., Ferraro, F.R., & Slagle, B. (2008). Temporal discounting predicts how people gamble on a slot machine. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 2, 143-147.

Weatherly, J.N., & Meier, E. (2008). Does providing accurate information about slot machines alter how participants play them? Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 2, 2-11.

Weatherly, J.N., & Meier, E. (2007).   Studying gambling behavior experimentally: The value of money. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 1, 133-140.

Weatherly, J.N., Petros, T.V., Christopherson, K.M., & Haugen, E. (2007).  Perceptions of Political Bias in the Headlines of Two Major American News Organizations.  Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, 12, 91-104.

Weatherly, J.N., Thompson, B., Hodny, M., & Meier, E. (in press). Choice behavior of females playing concurrently available slot machines: Effect of changes in payback percentages. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

Whitton, M., & Weatherly, J.N. (in press). The effect of near-miss rate and card control when American Indians and non-Indians gamble in a laboratory situation: The influence of alcohol. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center.