{"id":4,"date":"2013-06-28T02:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-03-03T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:46:28","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This website provides copies of my publications and reviews of my book: <em>Addiction: A disorder of choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gene-heyman-lp.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-442 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gene-heyman-lp-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gene-heyman-lp-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gene-heyman-lp-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gene-heyman-lp-768x1153.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gene-heyman-lp-1023x1536.jpeg 1023w, https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gene-heyman-lp-624x936.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gene-heyman-lp.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I teach three courses at Boston College: <em>Introduction to Brain, Mind, &amp; Behavior<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Experimental Psychology Research Lab, <\/em>and <em>Addiction, Choice, &amp; Motivation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My current addiction research uses large, publicly available data sets to evaluate the efficacy of treatment and the social-economic predictors of drug overdose deaths. My current lab research uses a mathematical model to infer the allocation of covert visual attention. Some representative recent papers are listed below, or click on Publications<a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/publications\/2000-to-current\/\"> 2000 to Current.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SocEconODsAppendixDec19.pdf\">Social-economic measures of income inequality predict overdose deaths to the same degree as do opioid prescription rates (2019)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/How-individuals-make-choices-explains-addictions-distinctive-non-eliminable-features.pdf\">Two choice principles (local and global maximizing) predict addiction\u2019s unique characteristics (2020).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it constitutional for a judge to require a drug addict to stop using drugs (2017)? See <a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/MayTheCourtSendDrugUsingThiefToJail.pdf\">blog summary<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/FriendoftheCourtEldred.pdf\">Penn Law School paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Addicts pass two empirical tests of free-will (2017) See <a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DoAddictsHaveFreeWillWhatResearchSaysAboutNatureOfAddiction.pdf\">blog summar<\/a>y and <a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DoAddictsHaveFreeWillEmpiricalApproachGMH.pdf\">journal article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A behavioral choice rule for the mind: How pigeons allocate pecks predicts how humans allocate covert attention (<a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CalculatingAttention16.pdf\">2016<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Behavioral-Psychologys-Matching-Law-Describes-the-Allocation-of-Covert-Attention-A-Choice-Rule-for-the-Mind.pdf\">2020<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A brief biography and my CV are on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=50\">Vita<\/a>\u201d page.<\/p>\n<p>You can contact me at (617) 552-9287,<a href=\"mailto:heymang@bc.edu\">heymang@bc.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>505 McGuinn Hall, Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website provides copies of my publications and reviews of my book: Addiction: A disorder of choice. I teach three courses at Boston College: Introduction to Brain, Mind, &amp; Behavior,\u00a0Experimental Psychology Research Lab, and Addiction, Choice, &amp; Motivation. My current addiction research uses large, publicly available data sets to evaluate the efficacy of treatment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/front-page.php","meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneheyman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}