Episode 1010 - (UNLOCKED) Walden Two Book Club

08/14/24 • 128 min

UNLOCKED from our Patreon page, it’s the “Walden Two” Book Club! Interested in more Book Clubs? Want to vote on what we read next? Feeling FOMO at getting this a full year late? Wish your 2 CEs for listening to the episode were FREE??? Join us on Patreon to get all of our episodes a week early, access to these bonus episodes, plus other goodies.

Are you mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore enough to move out to the country to a semi-anarcho-communist society where the prinicples of human behavior have created a utopia? Well, then you’ll probably enjoy our Summer 2023 discussion of B.F. Skinner’s novel, “Walden Two”. We talk for over two hours about the historical context, plot, and our impressions of this optimistic view of how behavior science might just be able to save the world from your own backyard. Plus, Rob makes a potentially groundbreaking discovery about Skinner’s comic-book collection. Come for the four-hour workdays, stay for the 50 amateur piano concertos!

This episode is available for 2.0 LEARNING CEUs.

Content discussed in this episode:

Skinner, B.F. (1948). Walden two. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

Altus, D.E. & Morris, E.K. (2009). B.F. Skinner’s utopian vision: Behind and beyond “Walden Two”. The Behavior Analyst, 32, 319-335. doi: 10.1007/BF03392195

Todd, R. (1970, March 15). Walden two: Three? Many more? The New York Times.

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This episode is available for 2.0 LEARNING CEUs.

Content discussed in this episode:

Skinner, B.F. (1948). Walden two. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

Altus, D.E. & Morris, E.K. (2009). B.F. Skinner’s utopian vision: Behind and beyond “Walden Two”. The Behavior Analyst, 32, 319-335. doi: 10.1007/BF03392195

Todd, R. (1970, March 15). Walden two: Three? Many more? The New York Times.

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August 2024 Preview

Feeling hot, hot, hot? Cool off with these refreshing topics! The Summer of Book Club comes to a close with our unlocked Walden Two discussion. Then we bring our beach party to a close just in time for a good, old-fashioned Grab Bag and our summer Listener Choice all about measuring quality of ABA as a service. Put them all together and do we find ourselves in a behavior analytic utopia or a dystopia?

Articles for August 2024

(UNLOCKED) Walden Two Book Club

Skinner, B.F. (1948). Walden two. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

Altus, D.E. & Morris, E.K. (2009). B.F. Skinner’s utopian vision: Behind and beyond “Walden Two”. The Behavior Analyst, 32, 319-335. doi: 10.1007/BF03392195

Todd, R. (1970, March 15). Walden two: Three? Many more? The New York Times.

Grab Bag Summer Slam

Vargo, K. & Brown, C. (2020). An evaluation of and preference for variations of the Good Behavior Game with students with autism. Behavioral Interventions, 35, 560-570. doi: 10.1002/bin.1740

Kemp, J. M., Ethridge, A. N., Richling, S. M., Drummond, C. Z., & Soto, J. A. (2024). Is “M&M therapy” a misnomer or a concerning truth? A descriptive analysis of the use of edible reinforcers in applied behavior analytic research. Behavioral Interventions, 39, online first publication. doi: 10.1002/bin.2005

Price, R. A., Martin Loya, M. R., Folkerts, R., & Haidar, B. S. (2024). The ethical landscape of behavior analysis forums on Reddit. Behavior Analysis in Practice, online first publication. doi: 10.1007/s40617-024-00921-5

(LISTENER CHOICE) Quality Control in the ABA Service Industry

Behavior Analyst Certification Board. (2024). US employment demand for behavior analysts: 2010–2023. Littleton, CO: Author.

Max, C. & Lambright, N. (2022). Board certified behavior analysts and school fidelity of applied behavior analysis services: Qualitative findings. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 68, 913-923. doi: 10.100/20473869.2021.1926854

Silbaugh, B.C. & Fattal, R.E. (2022). Exploring quality in the applied behavior analysis service delivery industry. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 15, 571-590. doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00627-y

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Episode 285 - Grab Bag Summer Slam

We just wanna say to you all tonight, we’re very, very grateful to be here. A lot of people told us that we’d never podcast about behavior analysis again and that's all we do.

You know, if you live hard and play hard and you burn the candle at both ends, you pay the price for it.

You know in this life you can lose everything that you love, everything that loves you."

Now we don't hear as good as we used to, and we forget stuff. And we ain't as pretty as we used to be. But darn it, we’re still standing here and we’re "ABA Inside Track."

You know as time goes by -- as time goes by, they say:

"We’re washed up."

“We’re finished.”

“We’re losers.”

“We’re all through.”

You know what? The only one that's going to tell us when we’re through doing our thing is you people here.

You people here -- You people here are the ones who are worth bringing it for because you're our family.

We love all of you!

Thank you so much!

This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU.

Articles discussed this episode:

Vargo, K. & Brown, C. (2020). An evaluation of and preference for variations of the Good Behavior Game with students with autism. Behavioral Interventions, 35, 560-570. doi: 10.1002/bin.1740