The Futures of Behavior Analysis

What is it about?

To ensure futures for Behavior Analysis (BA) several things must happen. We must learn that data have little value until embedded in a coherent narrative; and the best of those are called theories. The biological BA must reach levels up to biology/ethology/ecology; and levels down to physiology/neuroscience. The psychological BA must recognize the value of bringing into our tool-box treatments of states such as affects and dispositions; operations such as attention, rumination, goal-setting, and reframing; and craft a better understanding of belief systems in general. The social BA must strive to generalize basic laws formulated in open-loop controlled laboratory settings to dynamic interactive closed-loop processes with two or more interacting systems. To be successful these endeavors require respect for other approaches to these phenomena, and collaborations with scientists who know more about them than we yet do.

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