Authors frequently refer to gene-based selection in biological evolution, the reaction of the
immune system to antigens, and operant learning as exemplifying selection processes in the …

Modifiable behavioral risk factors such as cigarette smoking, physical inactivity, and obesity
contribute to over 40% of premature deaths in the USA. Advances in digital and information …

A common task facing any therapist is the assessment of a clinical problem in order to
determine the appropriate intervention to modify the problematic behavior, thoughts or …

A paradigm clash is occurring within behavior analysis. In the older paradigm, the molecular
view, behavior consists of momentary or discrete responses that constitute instances of …

Abstract" Analyzing Social Behavior"... provides the first full coverage of the social sciences
from the perspective of modern behavior analysis. The book provides an up-to-date …

Writers from a variety of disciplines recognize that culture is composed of or depends on
behavior, but is also somehow more than an unorganized collection of behavioral events …

Data on acculturation and ethnic-minority health indicate that acculturation has opposite
effects on the same health behavior among different ethnic groups; opposite effects on …

Social scientists can learn a lot from evolutionary biology-from systematics and principles of
evolutionary ecology to theories of social interaction including competition, conflict and …

We compared two sources of behavior variability: decreased levels of reinforcement and
reinforcement contingent on variability itself. In Experiment 1, four groups of rats were …

An argument is presented for making meaning a central dependent variable in
psychological science. Principles of operant psychology are then interpreted as providing a …