assisted living

Revolutionizing Behavioral Measurement with MIT’s Marko System

May 22, 2019 bsci21 3

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Good data goes a long way, but sometimes it is hard to collect. This is especially so in the behavioral sciences. We have historically relied on self-report, or […]

Society

Drunk Shopping – Impulse Control in the Internet Age

April 3, 2019 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC People are impulsive, and impulse control is a popular research topic among behavior analysts. In a previous article, we discussed a special issue of the Journal of […]

Society

TSA’s Secret List of Behaviors

April 27, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org In a previous article titled “Behavior Detection Officers: Where They Are and What They Are Doing,” we discussed the controversial program by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) […]

ABA Practice

The European Misinformation Campaign Against ABA

May 15, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC Mickey Keenan recently wrote in The Conversation about the gulf in Applied Behavior Analysis services between the U.S. and Europe. He highlighted, for example, that 41 […]

Business/OBM

A Conversation With Dr. Scott Herbst of SixFlex Training

October 22, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org I recently had the chance to sit down with Dr. Scott Herbst, founder and lead trainer of the consulting company SixFlex Training, which focuses on developing […]

ABA Practice

Will a robotic penguin revolutionize ABA therapy?

October 25, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org According to the Brown Daily Herald, researchers at Brown University are hard at work developing a robotic penguin to aid the assessment and treatment of autism […]

Ivory Tower

JEAB: How we think about time affects impulsivity.

July 18, 2015 5

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org A recent study by William DeHart and Amy Odum in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior found that our tendency to act impulsively — to […]