A Behavioral Systems Analysis of Behavior Analysis as a Scientific System

Hayes, Linda J.; Dubuque, Erick M.; Fryling, Mitch J.; Pritchard, Joshua K.

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“…Therefore, there is an existence of a behavioural system in group-based institutions. The behavioural system is a scientific system-product system-process system-feedback system-subsystems (Hayes et al, 2009). Based on the existing literature and research gap, the study aimed to investigate the behavioural system of SHGs.…”

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“…Also, the study suggests that future researchers explore group cohesiveness in SHG through a systems approach (Marmarosh et al, 2005), an important aspect of this study's psychological and behavioural input, process, output, and external environment. The validity of the behavioural analysis depends upon the extent to which the subsystem interacts for a specific outcome (Hayes et al, 2009). This study examined the behavioural systems in the SHGs but could not examine the interdependencies among various subsystems; therefore, future researchers should focus on it.…”

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An application of systems thinking to group‐based organisations

Panda

2024

Syst Res Behav Sci

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This study conceptualised self‐help groups (SHGs) from the behavioural systems perspective. It adopted the grounded theory approach for data collection and analysis; and the development of structural frameworks through causal inferences. The behavioural system of the SHGs had psychological and behavioural input (interest, motivation, intention, value, belief and need), psychological and behavioural process (adaptability, receptibility and cognitive ability), psychological and behavioural output (social behaviour, psychological behaviour, economical behaviour and ecological behaviour), and environment (macroeconomic environment, policy environment, social–cultural–political environment of village, and institutional environment of the village). The psychological and behavioural input, process, and output exhibited interdependencies. The conceptual categories within them showed causal interactions. The study provided a new lens to the debate on self‐help group‐based microentrepreneurship and group dynamics. The study found the systemic approach of SHG functioning and the peer pressure mechanisms built upon psychological and behavioural characteristics.

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An application of systems thinking to group‐based organisations

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2024

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“…This perspective fits nicely with the metacontingent perspective and the perspective taken in BSA. For example, Hayes, Dubuque, Fryling, and Pritchard (2009) proposed that we may define a behavioral system as, "an entity comprised of interdependent elements formed by individuals interacting toward a common goal" (p. 316). This perspective is also explicitly adopted by Glenn and Malott (2004) in their attempt to place IBCs and metacontingencies in the context of formal organizations.…”

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Culturo-behavioral Hypercycles and the Metacontingency: Incorporating Self-Organizing Dynamics into an Expanded Model of Cultural Change

Krispin

2019

Perspect Behav Sci

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“…In contrast, the systems perspective taken in BSA and in metacontingency theory assumes that system boundaries may be arbitrarily determined according to the interests of the observer. For example, Hayes, Dubuque, Fryling, and Pritchard (2009), borrowing from Malott (2003), defined a behavioral system as, "an entity comprised of interdependent elements formed by individuals interacting toward a common goal" (p. 316). As we mentioned earlier, Mattaini (2006) argued that arbitrarily defining a system as a series of interacting elements according to our own interests and agenda may result in key factors involved in the governance of those interactions being overlooked.…”

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Positive Feedback Loops of Metacontingencies: A New Conceptualization of Cultural-Level Selection

Krispin

2017

Behav. Soc. Iss.

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Couto and Sandaker (2016) proposed two complementary processes, selection of cultures and cultural-selection, as successors to the metacontingency in the process of cultural-level selection. They argued that the selective processes in the metacontingency were limited to within-groups selection, and might be included in the discussion pertaining to the selection of cultural practices. Further, they argued that the selection processes outlined in the metacontingency model failed to address the selection of cultural-social environments, which they suggested might result in the selection of between cultures, or between groups, features and would be more in line with the third level of selection processes which Skinner (1981; described as resulting in the evolution of cultures. This article incorporates an understanding of feedback from systems theory that is broader than the common application of the concept in the field of behavior analysis, and considers several examples that illustrate how positive-feedback loops between multiple metacontingencies may result in the between-groups, cultural-level selective processes described by Couto and Sandaker, and how such systems may emerge via processes of self-organization. KEYWORDS: cultural-level selection; cultural-selection; emergence; metacontingency; selection of cultures; self-organization Since the time of Darwin (1859), processes of selection have been integrated into a number of theories addressing processes of change in the world around us. Skinner (1981) suggested that there were three fundamental levels of selection by consequences. These levels were natural selection, which operates at the biological level; operant selection, which operates at the behavioral level; and cultural selection, which Skinner asserted operates at the anthropological level. Skinner (1953;1981;1989) believed that a "third kind" of selection by consequences (1953, p. 430; 1981, p. 502) resulted in the evolution of social environments or cultures.Even though the first two levels are relatively well-understood at this point, the processes operating at the third, cultural level remain somewhat elusive to attempts at definition. Dawkins (1984), in seeking to understand the parallels between the various levels of selection by consequences, pointed out that natural selection clearly defines both the replicator involved, and the consequences that are produced by the replicator. The replicators in the process are the genes; they are both the entity that is capable of forming a lineage across multiple generations of a species and the entity that is selected in natural selection. The consequences produced by the genes are the phenotypes that result in the various traits exhibited by the organism and by which the replicator is selected. He argued that, at the level of the evolution of cultures, Skinner (1981) was not clear 1 The author may be reached at jvkrispin@valdosta.edu.

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A Behavioral Systems Analysis of Behavior Analysis as a Scientific System

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

An application of systems thinking to group‐based organisations

An application of systems thinking to group‐based organisations

Culturo-behavioral Hypercycles and the Metacontingency: Incorporating Self-Organizing Dynamics into an Expanded Model of Cultural Change

Positive Feedback Loops of Metacontingencies: A New Conceptualization of Cultural-Level Selection

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