Roger L. Mellgren
Professor of Psychology

Room 508, Life Sciences Bldg.
Phone: (817) 272-2775
Email: mellgren@uta.edu
Website: http://psychology.uta.edu/mellgren/
Class Website for PSYC 4356: http://psychology.uta.edu/mellgren/evopsyc

Description of Research

Comparative cognition and behavior, applied animal behavior, evolutionary psychology. Currently doing research on sex differences in spatial cognition using human subjects, assessing personality relationships between dogs and their owners, and learned behaviors in two species of sea turtles.

Representative Publications

Mellgren, R.L. (1998) Foraging. In G. A. Greenberg & M.M. Haraway (Eds.) Comparative Psychology: A Handbook. Garland Publishing Co., New York, NY, pp. 691-698.

Mellgren, R.L., & Mann, M.A. (2000). What can a sea turtle learn? Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum MFS-SEFSC-436. pp. 79-80.

LaBuda, C., Mellgren, R.L. & Hale, R. (2002) Sex differences in radial arm maze task in the CD-1 mouse. Physiology and Behavior , 76, 213-217.