Contingencies shape and maintain behavior that affects individual choices, social justice, and environmental protection. The search for contingencies that enhance these outcomes, instead of ignoring them, is a concern of this site.
General information on and description of performance management, plus articles, newsletter, book reviews, links to international performance management consultancies.
Rich set of resources for research, professional advancement, and applications to education, industry, and special populations. Sections on aging, autism, parenting, behavioral safety, organizational behavior, pets and animals, and verbal behavior.
University of South Florida's programs; resources in behavior analysis.
Companion website to the click-l mailing list. Clicker Training, based on Karen Pryor's book, "Don't Shoot the Dog", is about using a bridge (secondary reinforcer) to shape behavior. Check out "Gems" section in particular.
Dr. Verplank has spent 50 years doing behavior analysis, research, and a little psychophysics, in the lab and in the real world.
Article written "to strip the confusion surrounding behaviour therapy and to explain its scientific base." Not entirely based on science.
Online tutorial on positive reinforcement. Also serves as an example of the self-instructional "distance learning" exercises used in many Athabasca University (Canada) courses.
This systems approach to schooling is a registered trademark developed and held by Dr. R. Douglas Greer of Columbia University Teachers College. The site provides information about a behavioral model of schooling that draws on the experimental and applied branches of the science of behavior. Information about the model and the schools offering it are available here.
Resources for behavioral intervention for autism: research, professionals, schools, support groups, curriculum materials, and special education and legal resources.
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