Jim Johnston

My last post on this blog was October 2019.  It announced the publication of the fourth edition of S&T, with the updated title, Strategies and Tactics of Behavioral […]

Back in 2017, I published a post titled, “Research methods as a way of talking about behavior.” The piece explained the relationship between how we talk […]

The predominant challenge facing students of behavior analysis, not to mention those well into their careers, is dealing with the insidious and pervasive contributions of mentalism […]

There’s nothing that will teach you about operant learning as well as being handed a rat and told to get it to press the lever only […]

What do we mean when we say we’re confused? We certainly know what it’s like to be or “feel” confused. We may be struggling with instructions […]

How many times a day do we express how we’re feeling? Surely so many that we don’t notice the circumstances or pay attention to what our […]

We all know that moment when we’re talking with someone we’ve just met and they ask that question that you don’t really want to answer – […]

We all do it. We pounce on an offending statement in a discussion by saying it isn’t logical, as if this alone should settle the matter. […]

Early on there were just behavior analysts. There was no official definition of what it meant to say that you were a behavior analyst; it was […]