Introducing bell hooks to teachers of behavior analysis
8 bell hooks (1952-2021) born Gloria Jean Watkins, was a scholar, educator, feminist, activist and so much more. hook was a Distinguished Professor at Berea College, KY, which houses the …
Applied Behavioral Musicology: Classic Behavior Analysis Publications, In Song
Got to pay your dues if you wanna sing the blues… but for AI it comes easy.
Climate Change Books include Behavior Change – A (Somewhat) Hopeful and Inspiring Sampler
I got alerted to the dangers of climate change back in the late 1980s. As for so many others, it was NASA scientist James Hansen’s testimony before Congress that did …
Community Engaged Scholarship in Verbal Behavior: Lessons Learned from Bridging Research, Practice, and Community Impact
5 Haven Niland, PhD, BCBA-D Dr. Haven Niland is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education and The Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research at Texas Tech …
When the Archives Sang: A Startling Discovery in the Harvard Audio Collections
A strange, wonderful, and entirely unexpected collaboration.
Dismantling Ableism in Applied Behavior Analysis: A Call for Reflective Practice
ABA has long been a cornerstone in supporting Autistic individuals, but its practices are not immune to ableism—a system of bias that views disabled people as inferior.
ABA Isn’t Just for the Kids: How Behavior Analysts Use Self-Management to Survive (and Thrive in) Doctoral Training
2 Written by: Tania Nainani and Sanam Rahimi Edited by: Ka’ala Bajo Doctoral training in behavior analysis often feels like a carefully arranged schedule of competing contingencies. In a single …
A Boojum Worth Taming: Theory, Behavior Systems, and “Constraints on Learning”
Guest post authored by Shamim Samipour, Middle East Technical University Lewis Carroll’s (1876) The Hunting of the Snark, follows a hunting party’s quest to catch an elusive, but tasty, snark …
How to Steer People Away From Pseudoscientific Treatments — Without Scaring Them Away From Us
Explaining treatment effectiveness evidence.
You Do Not Actually Have a “Bad Memory,” I Promise
2 Dr. J. Stephanie Gonzalez, PhD, BCBA-D, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at the University of North Texas and director of the Gonzalez Applied Behavior …
Cultural Troubles and Issues
Jeff Kupfer and Ron AllenUniversity of Colorado (Denver) and Simmons University (Boston) It seems that with every blog we post about our culture, conditions worsen for many individuals. Personal lives …