Maternal Behavioral Health: Fertile Ground for Behavior Analysis

Mathematical Analysis of the Behavior of Soft Ground Against Tunnelling

Mathematical Analysis of the Behavior of Soft Ground Against Tunnelling

Wilderness Management Dilemmas: Fertile Ground for Wilderness Management Research

Increasingly, wilderness managers must choose between the objective of wildness (“untrammeled” wilderness) and the objectives of naturalness and solitude. This dilemma has surfaced with awareness of the pervasiveness of human influence in wilderness and that regulation is often the only way to maintain outstanding opportunities for solitude. Should we trammel wilderness to compensate for unnatu...

Behavior analysis and behavioral neuroscience

Behavior analysis—the science of adaptive behavior—focuses on behavior as a subject matter in its own right, not as an index of cognitive events, and is, thus, not dualistic. Behavior analysis incorporates several laws of learning discovered by researchers using single-subject experimental designs. I argue that behavior analysis can provide neuroscientists with an experimental and a theoretical...

Emotional responses to behavioral economic incentives for health behavior change.

Many people aim to change their lifestyle, but have trouble acting on their intentions. Behavioral economic incentives and related emotions can support commitment to personal health goals, but the related emotions remain unexplored. In a regret lottery, winners who do not attain their health goals do not get their prize but receive feedback on what their forgone earnings would have been. This c...