Recently added articles from Behavior and Social Issues:
EDITORIAL NOTE: CHANGES TO JOURNAL PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
Oct 01, 2008; ... Beginning with Volume 18 (2009), Behavior and Social Issues will publish articles online immediately upon final acceptance, thus making journal content more quickly available to scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners. At the end of each calendar year, all articles published during that year ...
EDITORIAL: LICENSING BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS
Oct 01, 2008; ... According to a recent communication from the Association for Behavior Analysis: International (ABAI) office: At its fall meeting in November 2008, the ABAI Council unanimously approved the Practice Board's strategic initiatives as described in the document, "Working to Meet the Needs of ...
BICYCLIST AND MOTORIST ENVIRONMENTS: EXPLORING INTERLOCKING BEHAVIORAL CONTINGENCIES
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: This paper argues that collisions between bicyclists and motorists are the result of faulty interlocking contingencies. This theoretical assertion suggests the need for dedicated evaluation methods, tools, and data systems sensitive to relevant behavioral variables operating at ...
THE EFFECTS OF APPOINTMENT DELAY AND REMINDERS ON APPOINTMENT-KEEPING BEHAVIOR
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Two experiments investigated the effects of appointment delay and phone reminders on college students' appointment-keeping behavior. A significantly higher percentage of students kept their appointments in the 1-day appointment delay condition than in the 15-day delay condition with no ...
THERE'S A POLICY FOR THAT: A COMPARISON OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF WORKPLACES REPORTING INCIDENTS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: It has been more than 25 years since the Equal Employment Opportunity Council first published guidelines on sexual harassment. In response, many companies developed policies and procedures for dealing with harassment in their workplaces. The impact of sexual harassment policies on ...
COMMENTS ON "THERE'S A POLICY FOR THAT": INTERDISCIPLINARY ANALYSES OF HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENTS
Oct 01, 2008; ... The article "There's a Policy for That: A Comparison of the Organizational Culture of Workplaces Reporting Incidents of Sexual Harassment" (Hertzog, Wright, & Beat, 2008, this volume) explores organizational variables related to reports of sexual harassment and other negative behaviors in ...
A POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT PROGRAM IN A 19TH CENTURY PENAL COLONY
Oct 01, 2008; ... From the late 18th Century until 1868 more than 150,000 convicts were "transported" from England to its colony, Australia. Most of the convicts, male and female, had been city dwellers and eight in ten were thieves. Almost all were laborers and destitute. As Robert Hughes points out in ...
GUEST EDITORIAL: BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IN ITS HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
Apr 01, 2008; ... These reflections arise from recent discussion on the BFSR listserv regarding the prioritization of social problems. I have not participated actively in the discussion, although I have followed it closely. The "blogging" type of communication which the technology appears to encourage does not ...
EDITORIAL: BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL ISSUES ADVANCES
Apr 01, 2008; ... As most of our readers know, Behavior and Social Issues is published both in a print version and in an open-access, online version. With the dramatic expansion of electronic publishing and the emergence of the critically important open access movement for expanding public knowledge worldwide, ...
EDITORIAL NOTE ON SCIENTIFIC TONE
Apr 01, 2008; ... In recent years, it has sometimes happened that the tone of some work submitted to Behavior and Social Issues (and other journals) has become somewhat more personal than scientific. Scientific advance requires the freedom to criticize the work of others, and to make a strong case for one's own ...
PROPENSITY TO REPORT INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA: COMMUNITY DEMOGRAPHICS
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has devastating consequences both for the individuals involved and the community more widely. The role of the community in the prevention of IPV has been noted both in the literature and in recent initiatives within Australia ....
BELIEF IN FREE WILL: MEASUREMENT AND CONCEPTUALIZATION INNOVATIONS
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: Though the existence of free will seems to be a background assumption in Western life, very little research has examined the belief, and the handful of studies that have done so suggest only a modest endorsement and unclear relationships to other variables. However, ...
FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF SELF-INITIATED MALADAPTIVE BEHAVIORS: A CASE STUDY
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: This study sought to perform a Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and develop a data-based behavior intervention plan (BIP) in order to address a student's maladaptive behaviors as exhibited in the regular education classroom setting. Of particular interest in this study ...
A RELATIONAL FRAME THEORY CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to investigate the transformation of stimulus functions from socially relevant to arbitrary stimuli as a model of social stigmatization and categorization. Specifically, participants were trained to respond to arbitrary stimuli as if they were ...
NEW MYTHS AND HARSH REALITIES: REPLY TO PAUL ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF PAUL AND LENTZ (1977) FOR GENERALIZATION FROM TOKEN ECONOMIES TO UNCONTROLLED ENVIRONMENTS
Apr 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT: As part of a larger argument about why token economy treatment for schizophrenia was largely abandoned despite demonstrated behavioral gains, I (Wakefield, 2006) analyzed Paul and Lentz's (1977) classic study of social-learning treatment of schizophrenia, sometimes cited as the ...
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE
Oct 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT: Scientific discoveries and technological advances are achieved through the expenditure of human and material resources. Clinical research and program development in mental health services are no exceptions. In the present rejoinder to Dr. Wakefield's second critique, this point ...
EDITORIAL: THE PROBLEM WITH EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
Oct 01, 2007; ... The basic aim of science is theory. Perhaps less cryptically, the basic aim of science is to explain natural phenomena. (Kerlinger, 1986, p. 8) Within many helping professions, there is a powerful movement at present toward evidence-based practice as a process, and relying on ...
IS BEHAVIORISM BECOMING A PSEUDOSCIENCE? REPLIES TO DRS. WYATT, MIDKIFF AND WONG
Oct 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT: Wyatt and Midkiff (2006a) and Wong (2006a) argued that the eclipse of token economy treatment for schizophrenia was due not to scientific judgments but to the biological politics of the mental health field. I argued that the treatment's fate was due to its own limitations, ...
ARE WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, ASIANS, AND SOUTHERN EUROPEANS INHERENTLY INFERIOR TO NORTH-EUROPEAN MALES? A HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM-A CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL AND INTELLECTUAL DISGRACE-AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING "MENTAL ILLNESS"
Oct 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT: Biological determinism is the view tht biological or genetic factors are the main or even the sole cause of important behavioral differences between people, even when those behavioral differences involve complex behavior-environment interactions. However, biological determinism ...
BEHAVIOR ANALYTIC APPROACHES FOR RECRUITING INDIVIDUALS TO COMMUNITY-BASED PREVENTION PROGRAMS
Oct 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT: A number of primary-intervention studies with typical adults and children in open-community settings have been conducted in the area of applied behavior analysis. For example, communities and researchers have attempted to reach out to certain populations by designing and ...