The International Behaviorology Institute (TIBI) has released another bookmark celebrating the release of another new behaviorology book title.
The new bookmark celebrates the release of the 2021 book, Some Intersections of Science, Coercion, Equality, Justice, and Politics—A Teapot Tempest Stirs Sciences (organized by Stephen Ledoux and James O’Heare, and published by ABCs of Los Alamos, NM, and available, with a list price of $19, through “Print–On–Demand” at www.lulu.com).
In this 200–page book, after an Introduction chapter, an “Open Letter” leads to eight more chapters, by seven different authors relating to the book’s topic. These science–oriented authors draw connections between science and politics. Some historically repetitious and tragic developments occurred in the summer of 2020 and these prompted some serious and controversial discussions among some of the members of TIBI, some of whom saw a need for the natural science of behavior, that they call behaviorology, to stand up against the use of coercion in society, where coercion, they say, supports the divisiveness that is hurting society so much.
While that science did not invent coercion, it has done the experimental research to discover how it works, what problems it causes, and what some alternatives can be. These points were part of the “Open Letter,” and led to this book about the connections between science and politics occurring in many ways that have not previously been widely recognized.
The authors take the general position that, because behavior science addresses behavior—which necessarily includes behaviors described as political—and its independent variables, behavior science, and indeed all sciences, because they are behavior, are all somewhat inherently political. Thus scientists cannot keep—and should not be kept—silent about what goes on in society; they must speak up, and be allowed, even encouraged, to speak up.
The BOOKS page at www.behaviorology.org (the TIBI Website) features a detailed description of the book along with the book’s covers, Table of Contents, Introduction chapter, some brief biographical information of each of the authors, and how to obtain it.
This bookmark joins the other bookmarks that TIBI has released. TIBI makes these bookmarks available to any member or contributor (details are available on the Bookmarks page).
For details on this book, see the BOOKS page, and check out the BOOKMARKS page for this book’s bookmark.