Dr Jonas Chan

PhD
Senior Lecturer

Email: jonas.chan@nd.edu.au

  • Biography

    Jonas completed a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, with a focus on learning and behavior, employing experimental methodologies to uncover fundamental learning principles that underpin complex behaviors. He also holds a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

    Jonas has been a Senior Lecturer at The University of Notre Dame Australia since 2023. Currently, he is the Program Coordinator for the Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and the Bacehlor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology. Before joining The University of Notre Dame, he was a Lecturer at the Australian College of Applied Professions, where he served as Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Psychological Sciences and Unit Coordinator for various units across psychology.

    Before his tenure at ACAP, Jonas worked as a Market Research Executive at Ipsos, focusing on brand health tracking.

  • Research expertise and supervision

    Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology supervision:

    Jonas is a supervisor in the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology program, with his focus areas as follows:

    Cognitive Behaviour, Learning & Emotional Processing:

    • Measuring Inhibitory Processes in Over-Selectivity Through Frontal Asymmetry
    • Facilitating Relational Rule Transfer via a Matching-to-Sample Procedure
    • Effects of Cognitive and Emotional Processing Loads on rule learning and transfer.

    If you are interested in studying Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology and would like Jonas as your supervisor, please contact Dr Raquel Peel at raquel.peel@nd.edu.au. Alternatively, you can explore other supervisors available for this program.

  • Teaching areas

    Psychology

    • Cognition and Learning
    • Biological Psychology
    • Research Methods

  • Journal articles and proceedings

    • Chan, C. K. J., & Harris, J. A. (2019). The partial reinforcement extinction effect: The proportion of trials reinforced during conditioning predicts the number of trials to extinction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 45(1), 43.
    • Chan, C. K. J., & Harris, J. A. (2017). Extinction of Pavlovian conditioning: The influence of trial number and reinforcement history. Behavioural Processes, 141(1), 19–25.
    • Podlesnik, C. A., Miranda-Dukoski, L., Chan, C. K. J., Bland, V. J., & Bai, J. Y. H. (2017). Generalization of the disruptive effects of alternative stimuli when combined with target stimuli in extinction. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 108(2), 255–268.
    • Bai, J. Y. H., C. K. Chan, C. K. J, Elliffe, D., & Podlesnik, C. A. (2016). Stimulus–reinforcer relations established during training determine resistance to extinction and relapse via reinstatement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 106(3), 225–241.