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Four Prolific Writing Tips from B.F. Skinner

February 22, 2015 bsci21 2

Back when I was a doctoral student at UNR, I came across an article by B.F. Skinner (1981) titled “How to Discover What you Have to Say — A Talk to Students.” In it, Skinner […]

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Did B.F. Skinner contribute anything to Applied Behavior Analysis?

September 23, 2015 3

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org What exactly was B.F. Skinner’s contribution to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)? That was the question asked by Ed Morris, Nathaniel Smith, and Deborah Altus in their […]

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Street Photography and Behavioral Science

August 22, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Wikipedia defines street photography as “photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places.” The overarching goal of street photography […]

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Refining the early detection of skin cancer with behavioral science.

December 12, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC In a 2016 study published in The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, Tom Critchfield and Derek Reed sought to untangle and refine how we train members of the public on […]

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4 Fixes to Improve Public Education in High Poverty Schools

February 27, 2017 2

By Paulie Gavoni, Ed.D Guest Author Manny Rodriguez, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer From time to time we hear and read suggestions that all underperforming schools be shut down and underperforming teachers be fired. Coincidentally, we […]

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Fighting Cancer with Positive Reinforcement

February 10, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The New York Times recently reported on a program at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center that teaches dogs to sniff out cancer using positive reinforcement. […]

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Giving Your Teenager a Way Out: Teach Them The XPlan

March 5, 2017 0

By Sarah Kupferschmidt, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer I recently read about something developed by Bert Fulks called the XPlan. By now you may also have heard about the XPlan and if you haven’t you […]