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Amy Odum is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University, part of the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services. Her research focuses on behavioral phenomena such as delay discounting, impulsivity, timing mechanisms, and the effects of drugs on behavior. She has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health. Odum holds a BS from the University of Florida, an MA and PhD in behavior analysis from West Virginia University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vermont’s Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory.
Her work examines how environmental and pharmacological factors influence decision-making processes, particularly regarding delayed outcomes and drug effects. Current projects explore relationships between addiction and impulsivity, drug tolerance/sensitization, and temporal perception alterations caused by substances. She has served as an editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and contributes to editorial boards of other journals.
Odum’s teaching emphasizes basic behavior analysis and behavioral pharmacology. Her lab collaborates with students on studies involving animal models to investigate drug effects and decision-making mechanisms. Key themes include understanding how consumable outcomes like drugs are discounted more steeply than monetary rewards, and the role of environmental contexts in shaping behavioral responses to substances.
