Robert Dooling

Robert J. Dooling
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Psychologist and academic
Academic background
EducationB.S., Biology and Chemistry
M.S., Biology and Psychology
Ph.D., Physiological Psychology
Alma materCreighton University
St. Louis University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland

Robert J. Dooling is an American psychologist and an academic. He is an emeritus as well as a research professor at the University of Maryland.

Dooling has conducted research on hearing and neuroethology, with a focus on understanding how birds and other animals communicate with one another acoustically and drawing parallels between human and animal hearing and communication. He has authored and edited books including Comparative Hearing: Birds and Reptiles and The Comparative Psychology of Audition: Perceiving Complex Sound.

As of June 2025, Dooling's research has been cited 5300 times according to Scopus.