Let’s Be Frank: ABA Is About To Plunge Over A Demographic Cliff. Can It Survive The Landing?
Societal forces could soon undermine our ability to train enough, good enough, and diverse enough practitioners.
Grammar: An Icelandic Saga
As I pointed out in a 2023 paper, the principal limitation of Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior is that it fails to address grammar. To put it somewhat differently, it …
Thank You for Playing PORTL!
Portable Operant Research and Teaching Lab (PORTL) manual and an educational kits. Photo by Mirari Elcoro.
Stronger Together
It is that time of year when many of us renew our ABAI memberships. But why are we members? What do we expect from this community?
How Fuzzy are We?
3 How Fuzzy are We? Jeff Kupfer, Ph.D., BCBA-D and Ron Allen, Ph.D., BCBA-D University of Colorado and Simmons University While clearing my files this morning, I reread Critchfield and …
Interesting Somethings (2023-2024), Indexed
ABA, VB, great books, straight talk, good people, and much more.
Tools of Change, Part Two
Part 1 discussed the value of community-level sustainability projects, bringing climate action to schools, neighborhoods, local governments, and workplaces. The freely available Tools of Change website offers detailed, replication-ready examples …
The Reno Methodology 2.0: AI and Qualitative Insights in Verbal Behavior
3 Guest Blog Authored by: Yors Garcia Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Yors Garcia, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Dr. Garcia began his career working …
A Solstice and a Whole Lot of Scallops
On the virtues of analyzing high-probability everyday behaviors.