the history of marriage

What Behavior Analysis Has To Say About Gay Marriage

June 16, 2015 bsci21 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 […]

ABA Practice

4 Simple Steps to Supercharge Instruction with Behavioral Fluency

May 2, 2018 0

4 simple ways behavioral fluency from Chartlytics. It’s oh-so-easy for students to immediately forget what they worked so hard to learn. Students practice, but as football coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Practice does not make […]

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 […]

Lifestyle

Your behavior says you’re lying!

June 10, 2015 0

By Todd Ward, PhD, BCBA-D (todd.ward@bsci21.org) Founding Editor, bSci21.org Behavior analysts have talked a little about lying. For example, Skinner (1957) regarded lying as a distorted tact. For him, lying was indicative of a certain […]

Lifestyle

How parents can practice self-compassion during COVID-19

July 29, 2020 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA bSci21Media, LLC The global COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down. Unemployment is at record levels. Most of those who still have a job work from home. And […]

Society

Shifting Macrocontingencies: Renewable Energy Overtakes Coal

May 7, 2019 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Dr. Tony Biglan, a noted behavior analyst known for his work on a variety of large-scale social issues, introduced behavior analysts to the concept of negative externalities in […]

Business/OBM

Five Strategies For Managing Generational Differences

May 21, 2015 4

By Manny Rodriguez, M.S., bSci21 Contributing Writer Values, Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors Cultural norms can simply be defined as a pattern of values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of specific groups. These patterns are learned from parents, […]