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Behavioral Science, Gaming and Zombies: 6 Behavioral Science Technologies to make you Successful in the New Year and Beyond

January 17, 2016 bsci21 2

By Emaley McCulloch, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer What are your goals for the year? If you are like many, you have a few nebulous aims peppered with good intentions. Lacking in the mix, however, […]

Lifestyle

Learning to say “No” for a better life.

April 20, 2017 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21.org Debra Bingham Living Courageous Consulting Dawn Mackay & Jamie Pagliaro Rethink Behavioral Health It’s no secret that BCBAs are overworked. Talk of high caseloads, hundreds of miles on the […]

Society

Behavior Analysts: Think outside the box.

April 4, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC The founder of our field, B.F. Skinner, had a grand vision – a technology of behavior for the world. He wasn’t talking about a science of autism, […]

ABA Practice

How can parents find effective reinforcers?

July 17, 2017 2

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer “Dear Behavior BFF, I’ve tried using a token economy and it helped for a little while. But lately my son has told me that he doesn’t want […]

Ivory Tower

Taking Responsibility for What We Don’t Know as Behavior Analysts

March 7, 2015 2

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21.org Contributing Writer I recently finished reading Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, by Ken Wilber (1995). In it, Wilber attempts to put together a theory of… well… I think, […]

Society

How Relational Frame Theory Is Giving “Brain Training” Apps Competition

August 12, 2015 3

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Bryan Roche, PhD, co-author of the seminal book Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition, wrote an article recently for The Conversation, criticizing […]

Ivory Tower

What is a metacontingency?

February 5, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org There are contingencies and then there are metacontingencies. The prefix “meta” suggests something that subsumes operant contingencies to include something more. This “something more” refers to […]