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Promoting Hygiene and Safe Drinking Water across Africa and Asia

June 3, 2019 bsci21 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Behavioral science and industrial design have merged to improve healthy behavior in schools across Africa and Asia. Artefact, an industrial design firm, and Splash, an international development organization, […]

Society

Crowd Behavior Analysis from the Sky Aims to Prevent Tragedy

July 11, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Computer scientists at Middlebury College are working on a way to improve public safety at large public events through computer vision algorithms that detect anomalies in crowd behavior […]

ABA Practice

How parents can use noncontingent reinforcement

February 9, 2017 0

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer “Dear Behavior BFF, I’ve read several of your articles and notice a theme of always giving your child something they want as reinforcement. But as a dad, […]

Ivory Tower

A Behavioral Look at Superstition

October 16, 2017 0

By Melissa Druskis, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Black cats, the number 13, finding a four-leaf clover, or walking under a ladder are all arbitrary events that can signify either good or bad luck for […]

ABA Practice

The ABCs of Caregiver Attendance Behavior

June 5, 2017 1

By Daniel B. Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer Most people with experience providing clinical ABA services to children with developmental disabilities would agree that caregivers play a critical role in the overall success in the treatment […]

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

Twitter Predicts Heart Disease – Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Can Help

January 31, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The Washington Post recently reported on a new study claiming that Twitter predicts heart disease better than the combined factors of diabetes, education, income, and smoking. […]