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Behavior Skills Training in 4 Steps

September 29, 2015 bsci21 0

By Zainab Fazal, M.ADS, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer On June 22, 2015, I received a phone call from a staff at a local residential home serving adults with developmental disabilities. With a lot of excitement, […]

Society

What Behavior Analysis Has To Say About Gay Marriage

June 16, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org In Beyond Freedom and Dignity, B. F. Skinner discussed values at the biological, behavioral, and cultural levels. In short, he regarded values at each level as what […]

Business/OBM

5 Behavioral Science Principles That Increase Employee Engagement

September 5, 2017 1

By Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer A previous article briefly touched on how the principles of Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) were implemented to coach employees to facilitate social skills interactions among learners being […]

Society

Redesigning Your Grocery with Applied Behavior Analysis

June 4, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org A study by Sigurdsson, Larsen, and Gunnarsson in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis showed that selling healthy foods might be as simple as where you place them in […]

Ivory Tower

JEAB: Contingent Shock Increases Response Rate

November 17, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The presentation of shock contingent on a response should decrease responding, right? Not necessarily. A study by Everly and Perone in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of […]

Lifestyle

You Don’t Listen!

June 7, 2015 2

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer I’ve been thinking a lot, for a fairly long time, about listening. It’s something that, as behavior analysts, in which I think we’re curiously uninterested. At this point, […]

Lifestyle

Challenged? Try Behavioral Momentum!

April 3, 2015 0

by Manny Rodriguez, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer manny@abatechnologies.com Have you ever faced a challenge that just seemed unbelievably difficult to overcome? Do you have a colleague, friend, student, or child that is facing such […]