DVD: Behaviorology and Education for Green Engineering and Sustainable Living (2013)
CD: August 1988 Interview of the Organizers of the First Behaviorology Convention (1998)

DVD: Behaviorology and Education for Green Engineering and Sustainable Living

TIBI provides a DVD recording of the two–hour–long, October 2013 interview of Dr. Stephen Ledoux by the Prosocial Progress Foundation (PPF) as a cooperative fund raising item for both TIBI and PPF. (The preparation for this interview appeared in Journal of Behaviorology, volume 17, number 1, Spring 2014, pp. 3–12, under the title “An interview on behaviorology supporting a sustainable society.”) As the DVD credits specify (in part), The International Behaviorology Institute (TIBI) presents an ABCs production of a Prosocial Progress Foundation (PPF) interview related to a BehaveTech Publishing BOOK: “Running Out of Time—Introducing Behaviorology to Help Solve Global Problems” by Stephen F. Ledoux, Ph.D., with Mr. Dale Hallatt interviewing Dr. Stephen Ledoux. The topics that the interview questions cover include these:

Q 1: Background article
Q 2: The natural science of behavior: Behaviorology
Q 3: Qualifications of a natural science
Q 4: The status of psychology
Q 5: General applications across society
Q 6a: Applications in the context of global problems
Q 6b: Global problems and overpopulation
Q 7: About “operant conditioning”
Q 8: About “contingencies of reinforcement”
Q 9: About “schedules of reinforcement”
Q 10a: Behaviorology and brain science
Q 10b: The overlap between physiology and behaviorology
Q 11: About the “environment”
Q 12: About “personal agency” and “free will”
Q 13: About “freedom”
Q 14: Increasing scientific talk about behavior
Q 15: About “behavior analysis”
Q 16: About “recombination of repertoires”
Q 17: About “stimulus equivalence relations”
Q 18: About “Project Follow Through”
Q 19: Moving toward sustainability
Q 20: Time available for behaviorology education
(This is Question 21 in the interview article.)
Q 21: The book that elaborates these questions and answers
(This is Question 22 in the interview article.)

Parts of this interview appeared in the British documentary film, Prosocial Progress: A Blueprint for Social Sustainability, for which the interview was originally conducted. This documentary focuses on the relevance of the natural science of behavior—under old or new labels—to various aspects and areas of prosocial change, particularly some of the contributions of behaviorology to contingency arrangements that could increase the scientifically informed, prosocial activities of citizens, specifically with respect to solving global problems. Along with five interviewees from Europe and Canada, the documentary features parts of interviews with three prominent North American behaviorologists: Julie Vargas, Janet Twyman, and Stephen Ledoux. You can access the documentary through the Prosocial Progress Foundation website at www.prosocialprogress.org or at the following link: http://vimeo.com/80155313.

Almost all parts of the video on this DVD appear as separate clips accompanying related newspaper columns on the author’s free–access website BehaviorInfo.com with the whole video also accessible from this website whenever a clip appears. Remember, however, that according to the author, the whole video—while aurally interesting—is visually boring to watch straight through its full two–hour length.

This DVD is a joint fundraising venture between TIBI and PPF, with a requested donation per DVD of $40 plus $2 for postage. After paying expenses incurred by printing the DVDs, TIBI and PPF share the remaining contribution equally, to help support their purposes. Thank you for helping, and we hope and believe that the information on this DVD will be of more value to you than mere entertainment. To watch the full DVD of Dr. Ledoux’s interview (which, he says, is aurally interesting but visually boring), order your copy by using this Media Order Form. Thank you for your interest.

CD: August 1988 Interview of the Organizers of the First Behaviorology Convention

About one half hour in duration, this CD recording presents the broadcast result of a public radio interview that Pat McKeown conducted with behaviorologists Lawrence Fraley, Stephen Ledoux, Ernie Vargas, and Julie Vargas on the eve of the first behaviorology convention, which was held at Clarkson University in Potsdam NY in August 1988. They were the organizers of that first behaviorology convention. The interview originally aired on North Country Public Radio (NCPR), in Canton NY, as an Evening Report. The interviewees addressed a number of questions pertaining to radical behaviorism and the natural–science study of human behavior, with topics ranging from genetics to child rearing and B. F. Skinner’s aircrib.

The recording was made possible through cooperation between NCPR and TIBI in preparation for the return of the behaviorology convention to the North Country (Northern New York), this time with Canton as the site of the 27th Behaviorology Anniversary Convention.

To enjoy and benefit from listening to the educational interactions among the interviewees, order your copy of this CD (for a requested donation per CD of $10 plus $2 for postage) by using this Media Order Form. Thank you for your interest.