BEHAVIORAL BLOGS
Monday, January 7, 2013 at 5:22PM 
JRC is a special needs school in Canton, Massachusetts serving ages 3-adult. For 41 years JRC has provided very effective education and treatment to both emotionally disturbed students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems and developmentally delayed students with autistic-like behaviors. Read more to hear about Dr. Malott's recent visit!
Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 3:51PM I really am thrilled and delighted when my forsythias and daffodils start blooming in early spring. And I always feel a need to photograph them each spring. Took these photos this morning, April 18, 2011.
Dick
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 5:09PM 
Carefully Chose to Bear a Burden, a Joy, a Child:
Most women become mothers by accident, some by choice a few by social pressures and a couple by habit.
This year, nearly 100,000 women will become mothers of disabled children. Did you ever wonder how mothers of disabled children are chosen?
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 4:40PM 
Welcome to Holland
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability- to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel.
It’s like this…
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 3:55PM 
Hi Dick,
I'm sending the suggested edits that I recorded during your CalABA Dream Chasers presentation. I wasn't able to keep up with the edits and pay close attention to your presentation simultaneously, so there's a chunk missing.
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 9:18PM 
Rather than work on my talk for BAAM due this Friday, I got sucked into Sigrid Glenn's behavioranalysishistory.pbworks.com More specifically /Palmer_DC (Check them out and for a little context, see the footnote [1].)Friday, October 15, 2010 at 5:58PM 
A concern about dissemination of behavioral technology results from a concern about the limited impact of behavior analysis. Before looking at the impact of behavior analysis on the world of action, let us first look at its impact on the world of ideas, if you will pardon my dualism. It would be of interest to get a historical perspective on how much impact behavior analysis has had.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 1:14PM 
-Save the world with behavior analysis.
-Better living through behaviorism.
-Nothing in moderation; if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess.
-The best predictor of future behavior, is past behavior.
-If it feels too good, watch out, because it's liable to bite you in the butt, when you're not looking.
-Aversive control is your friend.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 1:11PM 
Was Skinner a Nativist?
Skinner argued that dog’s barking could not be conditioned. And Kurt Salzinger got a PhD degree from Columbia for proving him wrong. Check with Kurt on the details.
Unfortunately, from my view, Skinner was much more of a nativist, than many of us environmentalists would like to think. In a major speech at ABA, he casually mentioned that intelligence was inherited; he said this way before his protégé Richard Hernstein co-authored The Bell Curve. Skinner’s talk dealt with the origins of language, or as we say in the biz, verbal behavior.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 1:11PM
Is it Morally Defensible to Use the Developmentally Disabled as Guinea Pigs?
Others have argued that we can justify the developmentally disabled spending some of their time as research subjects by considering it part of the tuition they pay. And we might make the same argument for college sophomores in Introductory Psych when they serve as subjects; however, we are obligated to provide the sophomores with an educationally valuable debriefing, in return for their participation.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:54PM 
My Everyday Jesus Christ
Let's see. Whom do I admire? Well, the Man, of course.
B. F. Skinner
Of course, of course. But why? Because he was the best theoretician in the field, by far. Because he could deal with the most complex of issues without slipping into a mentalistic mire, never losing his foothold on the high ground of objective data language. And because he provided objective data language. And because he provided the framework, the system in which it all fits. Every little bit of it fits right in there. Nothing left out; and if there is, we'll take care of it in the next few years. Without him, you and I would still be giving Rorschach tests or worrying about habit strength and anticipatory goal gradients.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:52PM 
This blog discusses my favorite peckerwood, Brother Bill Clinton, along with my least favorite, guess who, and the man himself, Skinner, with questions about how they got from where they started to where they ended at their peaks.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:51PM 
This ain't no scholarly critique of Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve. Ain't based on the book. It's a pop reaction to the Reader's Digest/Classic Comics version as presented in a two-cassettee recording, read by Dr. Murray.
In the first part, the majority of the book, the authors are clearly just humble scientists in search of the cold, buck-naked truth. Just scholars looking with dispassionate objectivity at vast amounts of data, letting them IQ points fall where they may. Weighing the evidence pro and con. No agenda, hidden or otherwise. But an intellectually honest, thoughtful reading of the large amounts of scientific data prove at the .05 level of confidence that 60% of the Negro's stupidity is inherited and 40% is learned.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:50PM 
Dialogue between Dick Malott and Jorge Luis Rios
Note: Dick Malott's reactions are in ALL-CAPS.
Dear Richard:
I am 37 years old, I have a mayor in electrical engineering and been married for 10 years. We have no kids. We visited los Horcones (www.loshorcones.org) two years ago and were invited by Juan Robinson to live there which we tried hard but everything went wrong, especially Juan stroke.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:46PM 
Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:19 AM
Peggy:
I’m taking the liberty of sharing this email with a few hundred close friends because it’s so morally instructive.
After our Departmental Honors Thesis Orals, I had only two small, silver-dollar-sized scones (which I chose to classify as non-desserts) and announced that I would abstain from any of the other tempting pastries.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:45PM 
White-Trash Graduation Garb
Foot gear
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:43PM 
Subject: 2 brief questions for a project on behaviorism
Dr. Malott,
My name is Chris Perrin and I currently am a doctoral student at OSU working with Nancy Neef.
I am writing because I was hoping that you would be interested in contributing to a project that I am doing for a behaviorism class I am taking with Bill Heward. The title of the project is "What's Behaviorism" and has its roots in several questions that were once posed to Don Baer and eventually ended up in Cooper, Heron, and Heward's Applied Behavior Analysis. Because I thought that the answers Dr. Baer gave were very insightful I decided it would be interesting to interview other prominent figures in behavior analysis to get their view points and compile them into a class presentation.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:17PM About 18 hrs Kzoo to Oslo. I hate flying, the longer the flights, the stronger the hate. I’ll never do it again.
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:15PM 
About 18 hrs Kzoo to Oslo. I hate flying, the longer the flights, the stronger the hate. I’ll never do it again.I hate newness, like where do you stick your credit card, and what buttons do you push, and is this the right ticket to get me on the train from the airport to the the Radisson, and is it the Radisson I’m supposed to go to, and which door do I go through, and which train do I get on, and is this really my stop, and, and, and, ...
Friday, October 1, 2010 at 12:14PM 
The reason you're not as cool as me is that you don't have a $200 Flip Mino HD video recorder. If you did, then you could make cool videos like this, at least if you're Oslo, Norway. I love my Flip almost as much as my new iPhone 3Gs, for which I paid $600 for the upgrade, so I'd have a compass to guide me around Oslo. The Flip is only 0.66 the size of the iPhone and 1.3 times as cool.I love the lady in the opening shot. She's so sweet. She sign-motioned me to show her what I'd videoed. When I shoot people on the street like this, I wish I could give them a copy, people who probably don't have internet.
So please check out my Oslo Street Music video by pasting the following address into your internet browser.
