ABOUT TIBI (The International Behaviorology Institute) and Journal of Behaviorology:
TIBI is a non–profit professional organization incorporated in New York State with the consent of the State Education Department, and with 501-c-3 tax status (see “Donations” under the GENERAL menu for information).
TIBI exists to focus behaviorological philosophy and science on a broad range of individual and cultural—local and global—problems. TIBI sponsors an association (the TIBI Association, or TIBIA) for interested people to join, supporting the mission of TIBI and participating in its activities. Journal of Behaviorology (which was previously entitled Behaviorology Today) is the peer–reviewed journal of the Institute. The authors of articles in Journal of Behaviorology write on the full range of disciplinary topics including historical, conceptual, educational, philosophical, experimental, and technological considerations.
WELCOME TO MORE DETAILS ABOUT BEHAVIOROLOGY
As a natural science, behaviorology remains unrelated to any disciplines—theological or secular—that approach the topic of human nature or human behavior magically (i.e., by including mystical—untestable, ummeasureable—inner agents in explanations of why behavior happens, agents such as psyche, soul, mind, spirit, or self) even if these disciplines use common scientific methods. That is, behaviorology is not any kind of theology or psychology. Behaviorology maintains a complete separation and independence from such disciplines.
ABOUT BEHAVIOROLOGY—Definition, Action, and Benefits:
Behaviorology is an independently organized discipline featuring the natural science of behavior. Behaviorologists study the functional relations between behavior and its independent variables in the behavior-determining environment. Behaviorological accounts are based on the behavioral capacity of the species, the personal history of the behaving organism, and the current physical and social environment in which behavior occurs. Behaviorologists discover the natural laws governing behavior. They then develop beneficial behavior–engineering technologies applicable to behavior–related concerns in all fields including child rearing, education, employment, entertainment, government, law, marketing, medicine, and self-management.
ABOUT BEHAVIOROLOGY—Naturalistic Foundations:
Behaviorology features strictly natural accounts for behavioral events. In this way behaviorology differs from disciplines that entertain fundamentally superstitious assumptions about humans and their behavior. Behaviorology excludes the mystical notion of a rather spontaneous origination of behavior by the willful action of ethereal, body-dwelling agents connoted by such terms as mind, psyche, self, muse, or even pronouns like I, me, and you.
ABOUT BEHAVIOROLOGY—Independence:
Among behavior scientists who respect the philosophy of naturalism, two major strategies have emerged through which their respective proponents would have the natural science of behavior contribute to the culture. One strategy is to work in basic non–natural science units and demonstrate to the other members the kind of effective science that natural philosophy can inform. In contrast, behaviorologists are organizing an entirely independent discipline for the study of behavior that can take its place as one of the recognized basic natural sciences.
See various articles in TIBI’s journal, or various behaviorology BOOKS, for more complete discussions of those and other considerations.
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