Human Behavior in Today's World

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In this volume a distinguished group of scholars examines the contributions that behaviour analysis can make in meeting the crucial challenges that threaten the survival of individuals, families, societies, and nations as well as the planet itself. Beginning with the premise that human behaviour is the primary cause of our problems, the authors look at methods that allow us to change it and at how these methods may be applied in specific areas - ranging from international violence and environmental degradation to substance abuse, and training of the handicapped. The first part focuses on the critical problems created by human behaviour in the modern world and stresses the need for behaviour scientists to become more involved in meeting these global challenges. Part 2 offers clear explanations of behavioural theory and discusses recent experimental work. Part 3 describes applications of behaviour analysis to education, day care, and the training of the handicapped. Principles, methods, and applications of Stimulus Control are explained in Part 4. The remaining sections cover the negative effects of coercion, the use of behaviour analysis to achieve co-operation in the workplace, the relation of culture to behaviour, applications to the practice of psychology, and related topics. Effectively linking behaviour analysis to a broad range of practical concerns, this book should be of interest to professionals in psychology and other social sciences as well as educators, decision-makers in government and industry, and general readers.

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WARIS ISHAQ is Research Coordinator and a board member at Pacific Behavior Sciences Center, Inc., a nonprofit mental health research and service delivery organization in Eugene, Oregon, and a consultant in psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis in Stamford, Connecticut. He has been teaching university courses dealing with behavior analysis principles and procedures since 1976. Dr. Ishaq is currently working on a book, Behavior Analysis Made Easy, for students at the undergraduate level.