Forgotten History of Behavior Science #6: The Brief, Tumultuous Trash-Panda Interlude in Animal Learning Research, Part 2
What behavior science lost when the “lab raccoon” faded into obscurity.
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”?
Forgotten History of Behavior Science (#5): Assorted Gems and Curiosities, Courtesy of the Cambridge Center
A blog series on another site that may interest you.
I Don’t Care What your Role is in Behavior Analysis. You Gotta Watch This Film.
IMHO the best new film on behavior analysis in maybe 20 years.
Instruments and their History to Teach Behavior Analysis
“(…) instrumentation is a form of time travel that transports characteristics that are distinctive of the era of its original making, design and use, into the present.” Cavvichi & Heering, …
Impactful Reading for New Behavior Analysts
As an undergraduate psychology major, I knew that I liked psychology and generally wanted to help people. But similar to most psychology majors, I didn’t know how I wanted to …
Pioneers (#4): A Quick Nod to Nat
One of the best thinkers and explainers from the early days of behavior analysis.
Forgotten History of Behavior Science (#3): Cumulative Graphs After and Before Skinner
The surprisingly long history of the cumulative record.
Pioneers (#1): Bill Buskist and the Coming of Age of Human Operant Research
Human operant research once was the neglected stepchild of behavior science. Bill helped to grow it into respectability.