Raymond C. Pitts
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Raymond C. Pitts is a Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Florida in 1989, with a specialty in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Wake Forest Medical School, he took a job as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In 1996, he moved to the Department of Psychology at the UNCW, and has been there ever since. He has mentored Doctoral, Masters, and Honors students, as well numerous undergraduate research assistants, within the Behavior Analysis program at UNCW. He has served in numerous editorial roles, including as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. His research has been supported by grants from the NIH (NIDA) and has been published in journals such as Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Psychopharmacology, Behavioural Pharmaocology, Behavioral Neuorscience, Behavioural Processes, and Clinical and Experimental Psychopharmacology. He has been a Member of ABAI for over 40 years, and was elected ABAI Fellow in 2017. He has served ABAI as the Experimental Representative on the Executive Council, the Convention Program Co-Chair, member of the Science Board, and a member of the Accreditation Board. He also has served as the Experimental Representative for the Executive Council of Division 25 of APA, as the co-Editor of the Division 25 Newsletter, and was elected Fellow of APA Division 25 in 2006.