The study of human and animal behavior as well as the method of utilizing observable behavior of organisms as a basis of data gathering, analysis, or inference.
Contingencies shape and maintain behavior that affects individual choices, social justice, and environmental protection. The search for contingencies that enhance these outcomes, instead of ignoring them, is a concern of this site. www.bfsr.org
General information on and description of performance management, plus articles, newsletter, book reviews, links to international performance management consultancies. www.p-management.com
Rich set of resources for research, professional advancement, and applications to education, industry, and special populations. Sections on aging, autism, parenting, behavioral safety, organizational behavior, pets and animals, and verbal behavior. www.behavior.org
Companion website to the click-l mailing list. Clicker Training, based on Karen Pryor's book, "Don't Shoot the Dog", is about using a bridge (secondary reinforcer) to shape behavior. Check out "Gems" section in particular. www.click-l.com
Article written "to strip the confusion surrounding behaviour therapy and to explain its scientific base." Not entirely based on science. members.tripod.com/rbt/index.html
Online tutorial on positive reinforcement. Also serves as an example of the self-instructional "distance learning" exercises used in many Athabasca University (Canada) courses. server.bmod.athabascau.ca/html/prtut/reinpair.htm
This systems approach to schooling is a registered trademark developed and held by Dr. R. Douglas Greer of Columbia University Teachers College. The site provides information about a behavioral model of schooling that draws on the experimental and applied www.cabas.com
IABA is an organization that advances the use of non-aversive, person-centered procedures in the field of challenging behavior. This site offers a number of publications for professionals as resources and guides to applying positive reinforcement procedur www.iaba.com
Resources for behavioral intervention for autism: research, professionals, schools, support groups, curriculum materials, and special education and legal resources. rsaffran.tripod.com/aba.html
Behavior Analysts, Inc., seeks to provide high-quality, effective interventions for children with developmental disabilities, and to provide training to other professionals in the delivery of these services. www.behavioranalysts.com
Resource for people interested in behavioral safety, injury prevention, behavior-based quality and other applications of behavioral technology. News, results data, articles, discussion groups and listings of seminars and BST products. www.bstsolutions.com
Abstracts of published articles and presented papers on joint control. Highly technical. Application of Skinner's concepts of verbal behavior to a rigorous, behavioral description of those human performances commonly ascribed to hypothesized psychological www.calstatela.edu/faculty/zlowenk
A Walden Two community (after the book by Fred Skinner) founded in 1973. Los Horcones is an experimental culture. It functions as a social laboratory where cultural practices or macrocontingencies are scientifically studied from a behavioral analytic pe www.loshorcones.org.mx
Paper given by Verplanck on his scientific career in various sorts of behavior analysis. Really interesting history. web.utk.edu/~wverplan/biblio49.html
Listserv for the discussion of behavioral principles as they are applied to the training and modification of animal behavior. Anyone interested in discussing or learning how behavior analysis is used to train animals is encouraged to join. www.scs.unt.edu/orca
Tom's home page shows that a career in behavior analysis can get sidetracked by those seductive computers found in the behavior lab. But he's maintained an excellent webpage that links to Internet resources on behavior analysis. www.mactom.com/BehaviorAnalysis/index.html
Describes the science and terminology of operant conditioning and how it can be used in animal training. Explores the use of conditioned reinforcers and "clicker training", too. www.wagntrain.com/OC
Free online introductory tutorial on Behaviorism. Focuses on the distinction between methodological and radical behaviourism. psych.athabascau.ca/html/Behaviorism