economics

Why Behavioral Scientists should Understand Financial Markets

August 19, 2020 bsci21 0

Todd Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA bSci21Media, LLC Sometimes people in the behavioral sciences are overly focused on the individual. They want to understand and influence people’s lives for the better by looking at factors in […]

Ivory Tower

When a Behavior Analyst Attends a General Psychological Conference

July 2, 2015 8

By Tom Buqo of Brohavior bSci21 Contributing Group When faced with a choice between attending the 2015 Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) conference, or the Association for Psychological Science (APS) conference, I chose to […]

Business/OBM

Preventing Credit Card Fraud with Goal Setting and Prompting

October 3, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Chris Downing Jr., Nicole Capriola, and Scott Geller recently published a study in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management on the effects of goal-setting and prompting to increase the likelihood […]

Lifestyle

Changing Four Behaviors that Predict Divorce with Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

February 12, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org According to BusinessInsider.com, researchers at the University of Washington’s Gottman Institute have identified four behaviors most likely to predict divorce with 93% accuracy in longitudinal studies […]

Lifestyle

How Grief Teaches Us Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

August 7, 2018 1

Jacob Martinez, MA, LPC Live long enough and you are guaranteed to know it intimately, that tangled up mix of inner experience we call grief. Grief is an experience that all of us share at […]

Society

Forgiving Dylann Roof: Perspectives from ABA and Christianity

June 24, 2015 17

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org On June 17th, 2015, Dylann Roof attended Bible study at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Approximately one hour into the meeting, he opened […]

Society

Using the Matching Law in Real Life

October 21, 2017 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates “All life is a whole bunch of…concurrent operant schedules.” The quote above is taken from a talk by Matt […]