Louis Lippman

Louis Lippman taught experimental psychology courses at Western for 42 years, and his research focuses included learning, sports psychology and humor. He wrote articles for Worm Runner’s Digest and the Journal of Irreproducible Results (science humor), and is on editorial boards for the Annals of Improbable Research and the Journal of Irreproducible Results.

His training emphasized human learning and his primary interest for several years was in verbal learning.  Inspection of his papers and publications also shows that he has always had a variety of interests and has participated in different specific areas; but despite the diversity, they are bound by the common thread of learning.  He also has continuing interests in reward contingencies which focus on incentive values, human and infrahuman exploratory behavior, skill learning (with emphasis on music performance), imagery and mental practice.  His present interests are on human operant performance, humor, and earworms.