The International Behaviorology Institute (TIBI) has released another bookmark. This new bookmark celebrates the announcement of another new behaviorology book title.

The new bookmark celebrates the announced release of Stephen Ledoux’s 2022 book, Work Takes a Holiday—Confessions of a Natural Scientist of Behavior. This book provides a fully analyzed and documented autobiography focused on the contingencies that affected the directions, drama, and products of the author’s life. This book also introduces the possibility of a new grammar, one that provides more support for the natural science of behavior by reducing reliance on the personal pronouns that imply inner agents supposedly responsible for behavior. These pronouns should be taken as verbal shortcuts for longer, inconvenient, but more accurate phrases like “DNA–based carbon–unit locus of contingency effects.” That shows the value of verbal shortcuts!

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.

The Spring 2022 issue—Volume 25, Number 1—of Journal of Behaviorology is now available online. This issue of TIBI’s fully peer–reviewed journal is its first “monograph–style” issue. As such it features just one long article plus the usual information resources.

The long paper in this Spring 2022 issue, by Lawrence Fraley, is “Cultural seduction considered via the natural science of behavior.” In this paper Fraley considers (a) cultural effects of the question of the philosophical compatibility of science and mysticism, (b) the behavior/body and life/death distinctions, (c) the motives and mechanisms of some cultural seductions, and (d) some common examples of cultural seductions (e.g., academic operations, religion, and symbolic patriotism).

The JOURNAL–Published Issues page contains this new issue. Click HERE for the Spring 2022 issue, Volume 25, Number 1, of Journal of Behaviorology.

The Fall 2021 issue—Volume 24, Number 2—of Journal of Behaviorology is now available online. This issue of TIBI’s fully peer–reviewed journal, under the Action Editorship of James O’Heare, features two articles plus the usual information resources.

The first paper in this Fall 2021 issue, by Lawrence Fraley, is “The cultural and academic regard for a natural science of human behavior.” In this paper Fraley contributes to the discussion of behaviorology’s place in the cultural community. In particular, it draws attention to the distinction between, and the implications of, a naturalist and a mystical set of philosophical assumptions. This article exposes the unfortunate compromise that religious forces imposed on early natural scientists. For them to avoid burning at the stake (at least most of them) they had to accept religion as the sole arbiter of answers to questions about human behavior while they were then allowed to study everything else from their natural scientific perspective. The long–term result, for the last 400 years or so and still dangerously present today where it delays effectively solving global problems, is the ongoing prevention of natural–science units in higher education from offering curricula in the natural science of behavior, the natural science that we call behaviorology. Instead accounts for behavior, especially human behavior, are mostly limited to the non–scientific accounts offered in social “science” departments. Humanity cannot afford this situation to continue much longer if it is to survive.

The second article, entitled “Can conduct be analyzed,” is an excerpt from Murray Sidman’s 2001 book, Coercion and Its Fallout Revised Edition. Originally drafted in the late 1980s, this excerpt reminds us of the long history over which natural scientists of behavior have been discussing the accelerating rise of world problems and some steps needed to address them. These steps include correcting the errors in higher–education curricular arrangements to which Fraley’s article alluded so that increasing numbers of natural scientists of behavior become available to help solve global problems.

The JOURNAL–Published Issues page contains this new issue. Click HERE for the Fall 2021 issue, Volume 24, Number 2, of Journal of Behaviorology.

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.

Several science–oriented authors have created a book on more of the connections between science and politics. Some historically repetitious and tragic developments occurred in the summer of 2020 (e.g., the police murder of George Floyd) 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. Those points were part of a brief “Open Letter” that was one outcome of those discussions. A related outcome led to a book about the connections between science and politics occurring in more ways that may previously have been entertained.

In that 200–page, 2021 book, after an Introduction chapter, that “Open Letter” leads to eight more chapters, by six different authors relating to the book’s topic as stated in its title, Some Intersections of Science, Coercion, Equality, Justice, and Politics—A Teapot Tempest Stirs Sciences (published by ABCs of Los Alamos, NM, and available, with a list price of $19, through “Print–On–Demand” at www.lulu.com).

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.

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.

Whether as a society member, scientist, or both, that means you too. So check the book out. See the BOOKs page for details.

In an article in the newly available issue of Journal of Behaviorology (the Spring 2021 issue, Volume 24, Number 1) TIBI announces its latest educational offering. The “Applied Behaviorology Credential for BCBAs” is specifically designed to enable Board Certified Behavior Analysts (a) to go deeper into the science that grounds their applied interventions, and (b) to consider some additional areas in which society needs their knowledge and skills to help an increased diversity of clients. Find the most thorough information in the first article of the Spring 2021 issue, or visit the “EDUCATION-TIBI Current Certificates” page.

While expressing sympathy for everyone affected by the 2020 pandemic as it continues into 2021, TIBI members continue to produce materials that can help people deal with pandemic effects in various ways. Parents and teachers, dealing with unusual home and school considerations, will find numerous science–based possibilities in the latest books to help improve their efforts, particularly in the realm of programming materials for distance education at home. The same holds for many other audiences, particularly for two books of newspaper columns that have received updates, while another book is expanded to increase the fun, from reading it, or discovering some benefits of science for enhancing the workings of our culture.

The publisher of all three books has released them for green, “Print–On–Demand” status at www.lulu.com (just click the magnifying glass and enter the author’s name).

The first book of newspaper columns is Explaining Mysteries of Living (Expanded). While the original edition remains available (at less cost) the expanded edition now features numerous color graphics to support the columns. The 72 columns in this book cover many of the basic principles, concepts, and applications of the science. Half a dozen column–supporting papers, are included.

The second book of newspaper columns is Science Is Lovable—Volume 2 of Explaining Mysteries of Living (Expanded). The original edition of this book also remains available (at less cost). The expanded edition also features numerous color graphics to support the columns and also now contain several column–supporting papers. The 72 newspaper columns in this book deal with deeper topics in the science. Most of these topics concern some initial scientific answers for some of humanity’s ancient but as yet inadequately answered questions. The ancient–question topics include values, rights, ethics, morals, language, consciousness, personhood, life, death, and reality. Some more recent topics also receive some coverage, topics such as the Law of Cumulative Complexity, evolutions, experimental and applied research methods, and robotics. Together, both books present 144 columns by Stephen Ledoux.

The third “expanded” book is Michael Shuler’s novel, A World of Our Own Making—A Sequel to Walden Two. This book presents a network of Walden–Two–type communities that bring B. F. Skinner’s late–1940s novel, Walden Two, into the 21st century. As a sequel this novel imagines these cooperating Walden–Two communities spread around North America and elsewhere. They are all grounded in behaviorology, the natural science of behavior. They operate with a worldview that advocates experimentation with cultural practices using science–based principles of behavior, while reducing the current ubiquitous use of coercive practices. This experimentation provides the foundation of societal activity in these Walden–Two communities. The communities pursue increasing self–sufficiency, and each produces unique art, products, services, and technologies with whatever redundancy the maintenance of civilized society necessitates.

The BOOKS page at www.behaviorology.org features images of the covers and detailed descriptions of all three books.

The Spring 2021 issue—Volume 24, Number 1—of Journal of Behaviorology is now available online. This issue of TIBI’s fully peer–reviewed journal, under the Action Editorship of James O’Heare, features two articles plus the usual information resources.

The first paper in this Spring 2021 issue announces TIBI’s latest educational offering, the “Applied Behaviorology Credential for BCBAs” (i.e., the “ABC for BCBAs”). This ten–course coursework credential is specifically designed to enable Board Certified Behavior Analysts (a) to go deeper into the science that grounds their applied interventions, and (b) to consider some additional areas in which society needs their knowledge and skills to help an increased diversity of clients. (Some BCBAs may already have covered some of the required courses, according to the TIBI Equivalency Committee.)

The second paper, by Lawrence Fraley, is “Why the Delays in Advancing the Natural Science of Behavior.” In this paper Fraley considers some of the interrelations among philosophy, natural science, and society that have affected developments in the natural science of behavior. Typically these interrelations have delayed developments. Meanwhile circumstances are making delays less and less tolerable for humanity. Global problems, caused by human behavior, cry out for solutions that require changes in human behavior, but the traditional interrelations continue to interfere. Even as the global problems shrink the time frame that humanity has to establish the solutions, humanity must sweep aside these interfering interrelations and so release the natural science of behavior to make its full contributions to helping solve global problems.

The JOURNAL–Published Issues page contains this new issue. Click HERE for the Spring 2021 issue, Volume 24, Number 1, of Journal of Behaviorology. Also, find further information about the “ABC for BCBAs” on the EDUCATION–TIBI Current Certificates page.

The publisher, ABCs, has released another book that contains newspaper columns about the natural science of behavior. This book, Science Is Lovable—Volume 2 of Explaining Mysteries of Living, by Stephen Ledoux, contains the author’s second set of 72 newspaper columns. The first 72–column set, which featured columns about the basic principles, concepts, and applications of the science, was previously collected in a book, along with half a dozen column–supporting papers, under the title, Explaining Mysteries of Living.

In this second set, the columns deal with deeper topics in the science. Most of these topics concern initial scientific answers for some of humanity’s ancient questions, because the ancient—and many current—answers to these questions remain inadequate. The ancient–question topics include values, rights, ethics, morals, language, consciousness, personhood, life, death, and reality. Some more recent topics also receive some coverage, topics such as the Law of Cumulative Complexity, robotics, evolutions, and experimental and applied research methods.

Together, both books present 144 columns. The BOOKS page on the TIBI website features detailed descriptions of both the earlier book of columns and this new one, along with images of the covers and information about the sources from which you can obtain copies.

The International Behaviorology Institute (TIBI) has released another bookmark celebrating the announcement of a new behaviorology book title. 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). The new bookmark celebrates the announced early release of Stephen Ledoux’s 2021 book, Science Is Lovable—Volume 2 of Explaining Mysteries of Living. This book provides another set of 72 newspaper columns, this time dealing with deeper topics in the natural science of behavior, topics that address initial scientific answers for some of humanity’s long–standing questions, questions for which ancient and many current answers remain inadequate, such as questions about values, rights, ethics, morals, language, consciousness, personhood, life, death, reality, and even questions about more recent topics such as the Law of Cumulative Complexity, experimental and applied research methods, robotics, and evolutions. For details on this book, see the BOOKS page, and check out the BOOKMARKS page for this book’s bookmark.