This was the question posed by a study recently published in PLoS ONE, a peer reviewed, online, scientific journal. With this focus, aggregator sites quickly summarized […]
If you were watching “Jeopardy” and this title were the answer, your question would of course be, “What is The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, […]
In common parlance, it is natural to talk about someone’s actions as communicating something. We take note of something that someone does and infer what the […]
A recent question posted on the Students of Applied Behavior Analysis Facebook page focused on the nature of frustration and generated a fairly long thread that […]
A question was recently posed on Quora (one of my favorite websites) that I found intriguing. It asked, in essence, what would happen if an individual […]
Discussions of ways of improving stimulus control over a target behavior sometimes refer to augmenting the “salience” of antecedent stimuli. Such uses of this term are formalized […]
Our daily dialect is laden with implications. Take the words, “can” and “can’t.” When we say that we can do something, we make an implicit prediction. […]