Name: Forrest Files, Ph.D.
Rank: Assistant Professor of Psychology
Office Phone: (912) 961-3029
Office Location: 227 Science Center
E-mail address: filesfor@mail.armstrong.edu
Degrees: 
PhD: Behavior Analysis (University of Florida)
 
MA: Experimental Psychology (University of Louisiana at Monroe)

BA: Psychology (Lycoming College)
Back to faculty page Courses Taught: 
PSYC 1101: Introductory Psychology
PSYC 3060: Behavior Modification
PSYC 4080: Learning and Motivation
Areas of Interest: 
Variables responsible for the positive reinforcing functions of alcohol
Discriminative stimulus functions of alcohol and other drugs
Conditioned reinforcement
 
Selected Publications: 
Files, F.J., Meyer, A., Cantz, P., Young, M., Sierra, G,. Berman, D.,
    Stachelski, A., Brockman, V.  (2006). Alcohol Self Administration
    by Rats in the Presence of a Tangible Object.
   Journal of General Psychology, 133 (2), 183-189.
 
Files, F. J., Samson, H. H., & Denning C. E.. (2000). Effects of prior 
   ethanol exposure on ethanol self-administration in a continuous access 
   situation using retractable drinking tubes. Alcohol, 21, 97-102.
 
Files, F. J., Samson, H. H., Denning, C. E., & Marvin, S. (1998). 
   Comparison of alcohol preferring and nonpreferring selectively bred rat 
   lines: II. Operant self-administration in a continuous access situation. 
   Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 22, 2147-2158.
 
Samson H. H., Files F. J., Denning C., & Marvin, S. (1998). Comparison 
   of alcohol preferring and nonpreferring selectively bred rat lines: I. 
   Ethanol initiation and limited-access operant self-administration. 
   Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 22, 2133-2146.
 
Files F. J., Denning C. E., & Samson H. H. (1997). Effects of 
   sucrose-substitution initiation on patterns of drinking by Lewis rats 
   during continuous alcohol access. Alcohol,14,379-387.
 
Files F. J., Denning C. E., Hyytia P., Kiianmaa K., Samson H. H. 
   (1997). Ethanol-reinforced responding by AA and ANA rats following the 
   sucrose-substitution initiation procedure. Alcoholism: Clinical and 
   Experimental Research, 21, 749-753.
 
 
Awards/Honors: 
Behavioral Mechanisms of Alcohol/Nicotine Interactions. Grant from the
Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation. 
  Professional Societies: 
American Psychological Society (now Association for Psychological Science)
Association for Behavior Analysis
Behavioral Pharmacology Society
Research Society on Alcoholism
Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis

 
Related links: 
Association of Behavior Analysis 
Research Society on Alcoholism
Mid-American Association for Behavior Analysis 
Division 28 of the American Psychological Association 
University of Florida Athletics