world

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, […]

Business/OBM

Technologies to help manage employees: Mobile performance support.

January 10, 2018 1

By Barbara Bucklin, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer This is the first installment in a series on technology to help manage employees. We’ll start with Mobile Performance Support (think mobile job aids). In recent years, technology […]

Society

Our Behavior is Sabotaging Us

December 4, 2020 0

Dr. Todd Ward bSci21.org We know from research in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, that experiential avoidance, or avoiding thinking about unpleasant things, is a source of many psychological problems. It can also be a source […]

Lifestyle

Increase your productivity with Behavioral Momentum and the Premack Principle

January 16, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates Let’s be honest for a second – we aren’t always motivated to work. Sometimes we just can’t get “in the […]

Society

The Paradox of Testimonials: Why They are Unethical and Why We Can’t Stop Using Them

December 20, 2015 5

By Adam Ventura, M.S., BCBA CEO of World Evolve, Inc. It was a hot and overcast day in May 2015, and I was standing dangerously close to the water in the middle of San Antonio’s […]

Business/OBM

Feedback: Taking the Criticism out of Constructive Criticism

October 24, 2017 0

Harla B. Frank, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer It’s not a proper feedback if it’s given to flatter and/or belittle someone. True feedback should be given to empower someone [sic] perform better. — Assegid Habtewold I […]

Lifestyle

The place before “I” – Undercutting your Deictic Relations

November 3, 2019 4

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA bSci21Media, LLC I cooked dinner tonight… or did I? As Dr. Scott Herbst said before on this site, “I” is just a bit of language. It only exists as […]