how to get my child to eat

Toddlers & Mealtimes: Hope for Parents Everywhere

January 27, 2016 bsci21 0

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer and your “Behavior BFF” A mom writes: Behavior BFF, my child totally loses his cool at dinnertime. Every. Single. Day. Is there a way to make dinnertime […]

ABA Practice

6 Ways to Improve your Delivery of Non-Contingent Reinforcement

February 24, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Non-Contingent Reinforcement (NCR) can be a powerful technique of behavior change. The crucial element that makes NCR effective is that it breaks, or dilutes, the contingency […]

Ivory Tower

Behavioral Science is All Around You

December 31, 2018 4

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Behavioral science is all around you. It doesn’t “look” like anything and you don’t have to “do” anything for it to be there. Instead, at its core, it […]

Society

Twitter Predicts Heart Disease – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Can Help

January 31, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The Washington Post recently reported on a new study claiming that Twitter predicts heart disease better than the combined factors of diabetes, education, income, and smoking. […]

Lifestyle

On the Ethics of Curiosity: Observing Behavior at the Voyeur’s Motel

May 10, 2016 0

Adrienne Fitzer, MA, BCBA Guest Author For forty minutes I was captivated by The Voyeur’s Motel , written by Gay Talese and published in the The New Yorker this past month. While the article focuses on […]

Ivory Tower

Radical Behaviorism and Buddhism

October 11, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org If you haven’t yet noticed, religion is a recurring topic here at bSci21. In previous articles, we have explored the behavioral effects of prayer, ascetic practices, […]

Society

ABA Can’t Survive the 21st Century Without Mobile Technology

July 15, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org A recurring theme on bSci21 is the increasing role of technology in measuring and predicting our behavior, such as incorporating the Internet into behavior plans, and […]