Paul Romanowich, PhD Work Address Department of Psychology University of Texas at San Antonio One UTSA Circle San Antonio, TX 78249-0652 Office: (210) 458-8304 E-mail: paul.romanowich@utsa.edu Professional Experience 2013- Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at San Antonio 2009-2013 Assistant Professor of Psychology, California State University, Chico Education 2008-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Departments of Psychiatry & Pharmacology Advisor: Richard Lamb, PhD 2007 PhD, University of California, San Diego Experimental Psychology Dissertation Advisor: Edmund Fantino, PhD 2004 M.A., University of California, San Diego Experimental Psychology Thesis Advisor: Edmund Fantino, PhD 2001 B.S., University of Florida Psychology Graduated with High Honors Honors Project Advisor: Timothy Vollmer, PhD 2001 B.A., University of Florida German Graduated with Honors Teaching Experience Undergraduate Courses Principles of Psychology Elements of Learning & Memory w/ Operant Lab Behavior Modification Introduction to Behavioral Statistics Psychology of Health Cross-Cultural Psychology
Romanowich--2 Graduate Courses Advanced General Psychology Health Psychology Teaching Assistant Hormones and Behavior Eating Disorders Social Psychology of Sport Behavior Modification Psychology of Human Sexuality Psychology and the Arts Adolescence Choice and Self-Control PhD Dissertation Committees TBD Katie Wainwright Master s Thesis Committees 2016 Pierce Cappelli (Chair) 2016 Shanna McConnell (Chair) 2015 Marcus Webster 2015 Maria Henri 2015 Kelly DeProso 2015 Elizabeth Neil 2012 Alyssa Cozine (Chair) Undergraduate Honors Projects Supervised 2013 Michael Freitas 2010 William Barone Rebecca Gabriel (co-supervised with Dr. Dan Worthen) McNair Scholars 2014 Samantha Saldana Independent Study Fall 2014 Bryan Dimler Samantha Saldana
Romanowich--3 Spring 2015 Brandan O Maoileidigh Samantha Saldana Scholarship (Undergraduate and Graduate advisees in bold font) Publications 2015 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The effects of fixed versus escalating incentives for smoking abstinence. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 48, pp. 25-37. 2014 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The effects of percentile versus fixed criterion schedules on smoking with equal incentive magnitude for initial abstinence. Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology, 22, pp. 348-355. 2013 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The effects of chlordiazepoxide and d-amphetamine during a three-component multiple schedule. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 100, pp. 88-101. 2013 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The effect of framing incentives as either losses or gains with contingency management for smoking cessation. Addictive Behaviors, 38, pp. 2084-2088. 2012 Romanowich, P. Home advantage in retractable-roof baseball stadia. Perceptual and Motor Skills: Exercise & Sport, 115, pp. 559-566. 2010 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The effects of escalating and descending schedules of incentives on cigarette smoking in smokers without plans to quit. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 43, pp. 357-367. 2010 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The relationship between in-treatment abstinence and post-treatment abstinence in a smoking cessation treatment. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 18, pp. 32-36. 2009 Romanowich, P., Mintz, J., & Lamb, R. J. The relationship between self-efficacy and reductions in smoking in a contingency management procedure. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 17, pp. 139-145. 2007 Romanowich, P., Bourret, J., & Vollmer, T. Further analysis of the matching law to describe two- and three point shot allocation in basketball players. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 40, pp. 311-315. 2007 Fantino, E. & Romanowich, P. The effect of conditioned reinforcement rate on choice: A review. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 87, pp. 409-421. 2006 Romanowich, P., Fantino, E., & Stolarz-Fantino, S. Avoiding drug dependence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(2), pp. 191-192.
Romanowich--4 2006 Fantino, E. & Romanowich, P. Context as a variable influencing risky choice: A review. The Behavior Analyst Today, 7(3), pp. 290-300. Submitted In Preparation Professional Activities Oral Presentations Romanowich, P., Cozine, A., & Worthen, D. L. Effects of reinforcement context on initial link responding in concurrent chain reinforcement schedules. The Psychological Record. Romanowich, P., Saldaña, S., & Lamb, R. J. Delay discounting change as a function of reinforcement contingency and gender during a contingency management smoking cessation trial. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. Romanowich, P., Dimler, B., & Lamb, R. J. Reinforcement schedule effects on selfreported craving during a contingency management smoking cessation trial. Addictive Behaviors. Cappelli, P., & Romanowich, P. Factor analysis of a misconceptions in behavior analysis questionnaire. The Psychological Record. Romanowich, P., & Igaki, T. The influence of licit drug use on social discounting in Japanese and American college students. The Psychological Record. 2015 Romanowich, P. & Igaki, T. Exploring Social Discounting and Cross-Cultural Differences with Japanese and American Students. Association for Behavior Analysis International Convention: Kyoto, Japan. 2014 Romanowich, P. Using Contingency Management to Facilitate Smoking Cessation. Trinity University Lab Meeting: San Antonio, TX. 2014 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The Effects of Percentile versus Fixed Criterion Incentive Schedules with Equal Incentive Magnitude for Initial Abstinence. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Convention: Chicago, IL. 2014 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. Effects of Incentive Schedules on Smoking Abstinence. University of California San Diego Operant Lab Meeting: La Jolla, CA. 2014 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The Effects of Fixed versus Escalating Incentive Schedules with Smokers Trying to Quit. Behavioral Pharmacology Society Annual Conference: San Diego, CA. 2012 Romanowich, P. The Relationship between Measures of Discounting and Perfectionism. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Convention: Seattle, WA.
Romanowich--5 2011 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. Loss Aversion in Contingency Management. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Convention: Denver, CO. 2010 Romanowich, P. Contingency Management in Smoking Cessation. Invited talk, Center for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility, Keio University: Tokyo, Japan. 2009 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The Effects of Chlordiazepoxide on Anticipatory Behavioral Contrast. Behavioral Pharmacology Society: New Orleans, LA. 2009 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The Effect of Ascending and Descending Schedules of Incentives on Smoking Behavior. Behavior, Biology and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction: UTHSCSA; San Antonio, TX. Poster Presentations 2015 Saldana, S. & Romanowich, P. Delay Discounting Change as a Function of Reinforcement Contingency and Gender during a Contingency Management Smoking Cessation Trial. TRIO Research Symposium: San Antonio, TX. 2015 Dimler, B., Romanowich, P., & Lamb, R. J. Reinforcement Schedule Effects on Craving during a Contingency Management Smoking Cessation Trial. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference: San Antonio, TX. 2015 Saldana, S., Romanowich, P., & Lamb, R. J. Reinforcement Schedule Effects on Impulsivity during a Contingency Management Smoking Cessation Trial. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference: San Antonio, TX. 2015 Cappelli, P. & Romanowich, P. Factor Analysis of Common Misconceptions in Behavior Analysis. UTSA College of Liberal & Fine Arts (COLFA) Research Symposium: San Antonio, TX. 2014 Saldana, S. & Romanowich, P. Smoking Cessation Gender Differences with Contingency Management: What is the Evidence? TRIO Research Symposium: San Antonio, TX. 2014 Igaki, T., Romanowich, P., Hachiga, Y. Social Discounting of Cigarette Smoking in College Students. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference: Chicago, IL. 2013 Romanowich, P. A Misconceptions in Behavior Analysis Questionnaire that Includes Level of Confidence as a Factor. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference: Minneapolis, MN. 2012 Romanowich, P. & Cozine, A. The Relationship between General Learning & Behavior and Misconceptions in Behavior Analysis. Behavioral and Social Sciences Faculty Colloquium: Chico, CA. 2012 Cozine, A. & Romanowich, P. The Relationship between Misconceptions and General Principles of Behavior Analysis. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference: Seattle, WA. 2010 Romanowich, P. & Lamb, R. J. The Effect of Pre-Feeding and Extinction on Anticipatory Behavioral Contrast. California Association for Behavior Analysis: Irvine, CA.
Romanowich--6 2008 Romanowich, P., Quan, P., Zhang, J., & Fantino, E. The Effect of Rates of Observing on Choice in a Concurrent-Chains Procedure. Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior Annual Conference: Chicago, IL. 2006 Romanowich, P., Stone, M. & Fantino, E. Effects of Response-dependent and Response-independent schedules of reinforcement in the Inter-trial Interval of a Concurrent-chains procedure. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference: Atlanta, GA. 2005 Romanowich, P., Charlton, S.R., & Fantino, E. An Exploration of Context in an Intermingled Concurrent and Concurrent-chains Choice Situation. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference: Chicago, IL. 2004 Romanowich, P. & Fantino, E. Delay-Reduction with Constant Terminal-Link Ratios in Time Schedules. Association for the Analysis of Behavior Annual Conference: Boston, MA. 2003 Romanowich, P. An Analysis of the Matching Law to Describe the Allocation of Different Pitches in a College Baseball Team. Southeastern Association of Behavior Analysis, Greenville, SC. 2002 Romanowich, P., Charlton, S. R., and Fantino, E. Rule-governed Versus Contingencyshaped Problem Solving Behavior in Pigeons. Association for the Analysis of Behavior Annual Conference: Toronto, Canada. 2001 Romanowich, P., Vollmer, T., Bourret, J. Further Analysis of the Matching Law to describe Two- and Three-point Shot Allocation in Basketball Players. Association for the Analysis of Behavior Annual Conference: New Orleans, LA. Session Organizer/Discussant 2015 Open Oral Communications. Behavior, Biology, and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction Annual Conference: San Antonio, TX. 2005 Perspectives on the Future of Behavior Analysis. Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Conference: Chicago, IL 2004 APA-Accredited Pre-doctoral Internship Programs in Behavior Analysis. Association for the Analysis of Behavior Annual Conference: Boston, MA. Internal Awards and Stipends 2013- LaBatt Scholar Stipend ($4000/year, renewable for up to 5 years) 2012 College of Behavioral and Social Science Grant Writing Competition, CSU Chico. $5000 (declined) 2010 College of Behavioral and Social Sciences New Faculty Lottery, CSU Chico. $1000
Romanowich--7 2010 CSU Chico Research Foundation Explorer Award Summer Grant Writing Competition. $3000 2010 College of Behavioral and Social Science Grant Writing Competition, CSU Chico. $5000 2010 College of Behavioral and Social Science Faculty Conference Travel Fund, CSU Chico. 2009 Best Post-Graduate Oral Presentation at Behavior, Biology and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction: UTHSCSA; San Antonio, TX. $100 2002-2005 Graduate Student Travel Award, Department of Psychology, UCSD. Grants Submitted Principal Investigator The effect of incentive magnitude and schedule on smoking Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP), New Investigator Grant Total Direct Costs Requested: $244,597 (3-years) Loss aversion in contingency management National Institutes of Health (NIH), R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Total Direct Costs Requested: $200,000 (2-years) Measuring changes in smoking and related factors in international university students National Institutes of Health (NIH), Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) Grant Total Direct Costs Requested: $225,000 (3-years) Contract Importance of reducing smoking versus changing attitudes in shaping quit attempts National Institutes of Health (NIH), R01 Research Project Grant PI: Richard Lamb, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Total Contract: $886,124 (5-years) Professional Affiliations and Service 2010-2011 California Association for Behavior Analysis Board of Directors - Northern California Liaison (Elected position) 2010-2011 California Association for Behavior Analysis Board of Directors Professional Standards Committee 2001-present Association for Behavior Analysis 2009-2012 California Association for Behavior Analysis 2003-2008 Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior 2002-2003 Colloquium Committee, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego. (Elected position)
Romanowich--8 Service UTSA Psychology Department Committees 2013- Speaker Series Coordinator 2013- Psychology Department Library Liaison 2014- PhD Admissions Committee 2014- Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2015 MS Admissions Committee 2015- Introductory Psychology Subcommittee 2015 Merit Review Advisory Committee College of Liberal & Fine Arts Committees (COLFA) 2014-15 State Employee Charitable Campaign Advisory Committee (Psychology Area Champion) 2013- COLFA Speaker Series Representative Service CSU Chico University Committees 2012-2013 Faculty Recognition and Support Committee Outstanding Professor Award Subcommittee Outstanding Academic Advisor Award Subcommittee College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Committees 2012-2013 Undergraduate Research & Creativity Spring Stipend Review Committee 2011-2013 Undergraduate Research & Creativity Summer Stipend Review Committee Psychology Department Committees 2012-2013 Department of Psychology Undergraduate Assessment Committee 2011-2013 Department of Psychology Library Committee 2011-2013 Department of Psychology Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2011-2013 Department of Psychology Undergraduate Advising Committee 2010-2011 University Grievance and Disciplinary Committee
Romanowich--9 Editorial Experience Guest reviewer Campus Faculty Hearing Panel Addiction Research & Theory American Journal on Addictions Behavior Analyst Today Behavioural Processes Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior Journal of Nicotine & Tobacco Research Invited book reviewer Thomson Wadsworth Publishing Company