drug abuse

How Common Addiction Strategies are Consistent with Behavior Analytic Principles

September 21, 2018 bsci21 0

Angela Cathey, MA & Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates In a recent video by Brett DiNovi & Associates, Brett DiNovi has an intimate conversation with […]

Lifestyle

Use Prevent-Teach-Reinforce to Safeguard Children and Teens from Pornography Addiction

March 17, 2016 3

By Emaley McCulloch, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer We can all remember the exact moment we were first exposed to pornography. If you are older than 30, your first experience was most likely from a […]

Society

What to do when our behavior is replaced by robots?

April 18, 2016 0

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer I have this irrational fear of starving to death. It’s not debilitating; it doesn’t seem to interfere with me living my life at all, but once in a […]

Society

Impact Investing: Aligning Reinforcement Contingencies to Save the Planet

April 4, 2019 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC If there is one thing that affects behavior more than anything else in the world, it is money. And money-related topics are becoming increasingly frequent here at bSci21, […]

Society

Racial Disparities in Autism Diagnoses

May 31, 2019 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC As behavior analysts, we know that three selective processes influence behavior. Biological selection, based on survival of the species, influences our genetic susceptibilities to our environment. Operant […]

Business/OBM

Opportunities in OBM: Addressing conflict, creativity, and motivation with RFT

September 8, 2016 0

By Angela J. Cathey, M.A. Guest Author Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) is booming and poised to grow exponentially. There are several fairly recent advancements in the behavior analysis of symbolic thought (RFT; Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, Roche, 2001) […]

ABA Practice

Understanding Behavior Functionally

July 28, 2018 0

Angela Cathey, M.A. & Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates A functional approach to understanding behavior is often difficult for non-behavior analysts to grasp. Tracking functional […]