It is Time for Animal Behavior to Become Its Own Discipline

It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline. The Animal Behavior Society argues that animal behavior ...
Psychology Today

Where Operant Conditioning Went Wrong

Operant conditioning is B.F. Skinner’s name for instrumental learning: learning by consequences. Not a new idea, of course. Humanity has always known how to teach children and animals by means of ...
Nature

Initial experience of heroin use under a two-chained operant schedule influences drug-seeking behavior after one month of abstinence

To evaluate the influence of an initial heroin experience under a modified two-chained training schedule on drug-seeking behavior after a long abstinence period. In the present study, we aimed to ...
JSTOR Daily

First instances in phylogenic and ontogenic selection as captured by the verbal behavior of scientists and philosophers of science

Selectionist sciences such as evolutionary biology and behavior analysis depend on variations. Variations must emerge before environments can act upon them. Yet if first instances in ontogeny are not ...