behavior change technology

Behavior Change ’17 – Apps, Tech, and the Web

February 16, 2017 bsci21 0

Melissa Druskis, M.S., BCBA Guest Author Fitness trackers in the form of pedometers have been around since 1965, but not until the introduction of Fitbit, Pebble, Jawbone, and others around 2010, did simple pedometers combined […]

ABA Practice

The Public School BCBA’s Summer Bucket List

July 30, 2016 1

By Jennifer Fisahn, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer ‘Twas the morning after the last day of school, One creature was stirring, it was a public school BCBA relaxing in his or her pool; The colorful […]

Society

The best way to diagnose autism is…

September 2, 2015 4

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org What is the best way to diagnose autism? That was the question asked by Dr. Stephen Scherer and colleagues in a study published in the Journal […]

Society

The Germanwings Crash: An Industry Problem with a Relational Frame Theory Solution.

March 29, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC NBC News recently ran a story on the tragic Germanwings crash that occurred earlier this week. One of the pilots, Andreas Lubitz, locked his fellow pilot […]

Society

Why changing our behavior is hard during COVID-19.

November 29, 2020 2

Dr. Todd Ward bSci21.org The spread of COVID-19 rests squarely on our own behavior of distancing, masks wearing, and hand sanitizing. But we don’t do it as well as we should. Why? NPR recently put […]

Business/OBM

Financial Trading for Behavioral Scientists

January 8, 2019 1

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC For behavioral scientists interested in trading stocks, commodities, Forex, cryptocurrency, and the like, you are in luck. Trading, particularly “technical” trading, is all based on time-series data, the […]

Business/OBM

Wells Fargo, Ethics, and OBM

January 4, 2017 4

By Daniel B. Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer In September of 2016, a scandal began unfolding at Wells Fargo Bank that, so far, has resulted in the resignation of the CEO, thousands of employee terminations, […]