Beginning in 1998 TIBI has published two issues a year, Spring and Fall, of its journal. Volumes 1 through 4 of the journal appeared under the title “TIBI News Time.” Most of the articles in these first eight issues were reprinted in the two extra–large issues of volume 5, which were the first issues with the title changed to Behaviorology Today. As of volume 16, number 1, the name again changed, this time to Journal of Behaviorology, due to the change to full peer review of all content starting with volume 15, number 1.
In the volumes of the Behaviorology Today journal preceding Volume 15, three papers had undergone a full peer review prior to inclusion in the journal. While you can find the other papers from these earlier volumes in the issues on the Published Issues page, or sometimes in The First 10 Years Archive, here are these three earlier peer–reviewed papers:
1. “Behaviorology Curricula in Higher Education,” from Behaviorology Today, volume 12, number 1, Spring 2009, pp. 16–25.
(For an update, after 25 years of curricular course and resource experience and expansion, see the Addendum to Appendix 3, on pages 314–326, in the book, Origins and Components of Behaviorology—Third Edition. The BOOKS page features details about this book.)
2. “Increasing Tact Control and Student Comprehension through such New Postcedent Terms as Added and Subtracted Reinforcers and Punishers,” from Behaviorology Today, volume 13, number 1, Spring 2010, pp. 3–6. Since this paper (which we call the terminology paper) was published, behaviorologists have begun to recognize some further terminology improvements that are more consistent with natural sciences. For one, this paper uses the term “accidental,” but this term can cause misunderstanding, as it implies an impossible spontaneous origination of events; the term “coincidental” avoids this misunderstanding. The other terminology improvement involves the term “discriminative,” which is only mentioned at the end of this paper. But this term too can cause misunderstanding, as it implies an impossible mystical inner agent that initiates discriminating; the term “evocative” avoids this misunderstanding.
(An updated version that reflects such improvements appears on pages 199–204, in the book, Origins and Components of Behaviorology—Third Edition. The BOOKS page features details about this book.)
3. “Multiple Selectors in the Control of Simultaneously Emittable Responses,” from Behaviorology Today, volume 13, number 2, Fall 2010, pp. 3–26. This paper reports research that establishes a laboratory procedure for studying human behaviors that overlap one another as they occur, even occurring at the same time, which is fairly typical of human behaviors.
(An updated version, with a slightly more accurate title, appears on pages 205–242 in the book, Origins and Components of Behaviorology—Third Edition. Also, see Appendix 5 in this same book for an update on 21st century human operant research equipment. The BOOKS page features details about this book.)
In addition to those articles that the TIBI journal editorial team fully peer reviewed, these
articles that appeared in the TIBI journal were also fully peer reviewed but by other
journals before being reprinted in the TIBI journal:
- An introduction to the origins, status, and mission of behaviorology: An established
science with developed applications with a new name. Reprinted (2004) in
Behaviorology Today, 7 (1), 27–41. Originally peer reviewed for publication (1992) in
Behaviorological Commentaries, Serial No. 3, 11–31. - An introduction to the philosophy called radical behaviorism. Reprinted (2004) in
Behaviorology Today, 7 (2), 37–41. Originally peer reviewed for publication (1993) in
Behaviorological Commentaries, Serial No. 4, 3–10. - Behaviorology in China: A status report. Reprinted in translation into Chinese (by Ma
Wen & Li Laishou) in (2002) in Behaviorology Today, 5 (1), 37–44, and in English in
(2009) in Behaviorology Today, 12 (2), 3–10. Originally peer reviewed for publication
(1993) in Behaviorological Commentaries, Serial No. 4, 24–36.