psychology

The Government Shutdown: A real-life reversal design.

January 18, 2019 bsci21 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC In the real world, our behavior is nested within systems – behavioral systems comprised of the actions of millions of people around the globe which generate aggregate outcomes […]

Financial Trading for Behavioral Scientists

January 8, 2019 bsci21 1

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC For behavioral scientists interested in trading stocks, commodities, Forex, cryptocurrency, and the like, you are in luck. Trading, particularly “technical” trading, is all based on time-series data, the […]

Explaining the Distrust of Trump with Human Operant Research

December 18, 2018 bsci21 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC As Special Council Robert Mueller’s investigation heats up, with recent court filings and sentencings, a recent USA Today/Suffolk University poll found that 59% of Americans do not trust President […]

Refining the early detection of skin cancer with behavioral science.

December 12, 2018 bsci21 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 […]

Defused feedback is behavioral feedback.

October 31, 2018 bsci21 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates Open up any issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management and you are bound to find performance feedback to […]

How Pay for Performance Benefits Your Company

October 13, 2018 bsci21 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates As behavior analysts, our world view is based on the act-in-context. One of the most prevalent contexts that occasion our […]

A Review of OBM in Human Service Settings

October 1, 2018 bsci21 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Nicole Gravina and others recently published a study in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management which reviewed Organizational Behavior Management interventions from 1990 to 2016 conducted in Human […]