Forgotten History of Behavior Science #6: The Brief, Tumultuous Trash-Panda Interlude in Animal Learning Research, Part 1
Why “lab rats” instead of “lab raccoons”?
Avoidance behavior: Why don’t we know more than we do and why aren’t we working on it?
5 Avoidance behavior: Why don’t we know more than we do and why aren’t we working on it? Ron Allen and Jeff Kupfer Simmons University and University of Colorado Denver …
Living in the Real World: The Achilles Heel of Behavioral-Utopian Thinking
Imagining a scientifically-inspired community and constructing one are two different things.
A Thought for the Scary Season #5: Is Applied Behavior Analysis Research “Stuck”?
On the difference between relying on strong foundations and not doing anything new.
I want a house with a crowded table: Fruitful collaboration between Behavioral Education and Universal Design for Learning
Among behavioral educators, the topic of similarities between behavior analytic pedagogies and Universal Design for Learning is gaining interest.
On the Force of Coincidence and Joint Control
2 I was walking across campus one day when I saw Ingrid crossing the sidewalk a hundred feet or more ahead of me. She had been a prize student in …
A Behavioral Dive into Horror Films!
4 Guest Blog Authored By: Sarah Lechago, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA Dr. Sarah Lechago is an Associate Professor in the Behavior Analysis master’s program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL). …
Applying Our Science to the Design of Societies
3 Introduction by Blog Coordinator Darnell Lattal, Ph.D. Dr. Francis Mechner has written an important and timely blog. It suggests that we consider how to create a more democratic society. …
A Thought for the Scary Season #4: More Concerns About Equity and Inclusion in the Science of Behavior
On a recent critique of contextual behavioral science.
A Thought for the Scary Season #3: Dead Men, Sexy Blondes, and the Confirmation Bias, OR the Illogic of the “Conceptual Article”
Four pitfalls of narrrative-style conceptual “analysis.”