my kids

Tips for Transitioning Activities, from your Behavior BFF

August 29, 2015 bsci21 0

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer and your “Behavior BFF” A mom writes: I enjoy taking my 4-year-old son to the park, play areas at the mall, and other fun places. Lately, though, he […]

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 […]

Lifestyle

My Kids Won’t Stop Fighting!: How ABA Can Reduce Sibling Rivalry

April 3, 2016 0

By Zainab Fazal, M.ADS, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer You look at your children and marvel in their awesomeness, how they are growing so quickly right before your eyes. And then…they start playing with their sibling, […]

Society

Forbes: B.F. Skinner Can Save Education

July 10, 2015 10

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Phil DeMuth wrote an article for Forbes called “How B.F. Skinner Will Save Online Education.” Online education, according to Phil, was supposed to be the answer […]

ABA Practice

Supercharge Your Goal Setting with These Four Simple Rules

February 28, 2016 1

By Joan Orr MSc and Anne Wormald BA TAGteach International One critical component of the behavior analytic approach is to break a big goal down into smaller and easily achievable behavior goals. Ironically the instruction […]

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 […]

Society

A New Token Economy in Professional Soccer

September 3, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Many in the world of professional soccer feel that players are disrespecting the game with various displays of unsportsmanlike conduct, such as taking dives just to […]