Global Sustainability: A Behavior Analytic Approach

Gelino, Brett W.; Erath, Tyler G.; Seniuk, Holly A.; Luke, Molli M.; Berry, Meredith S.; Fuqua, R. Wayne; Reed, Derek D.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45421-0_11

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“…Yet variability is important for advancing the science (Skinner, 1981 ), and few would argue that behavior science does not have an important role to play in understanding the contingencies that evoke and sustain human behaviors that contribute to larger social issues. We are not doing so well as a species—from a global pandemic and economic crisis (Brownson et al, 2020 ) to climate change (Alavosius & Houmanfar, 2020 ; Gelino et al, 2020 ; Grant & Forrest, 2020 ), racism (e.g., Mattaini & Rehfeldt, 2020 ), and violence (Roose & Mattaini, 2020 ), these social issues are all rooted in human behavior and the contingencies that support it. CBS may provide us with the best opportunity to not only understand these grand challenges but also construct more socially and environmentally just communities and systems (Cihon & Kazaoka, 2021 ; Cihon & Mattaini, 2019 , 2020b ).…”

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Research and Training in Culturo-Behavior Science

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Culturo-behavior science (CBS) is a developing area and recently formalized specialization in behavior science that brings together principles and techniques from behavior analysis (e.g., Skinner, 1953 ), behavioral systems analysis (e.g., Brethower, 2008 ), cultural analysis (e.g., Glenn et al., 2016 ), and cultural systems analysis (Mattaini, 2020 ). Culturo-behavior scientists typically work within a selectionist and/or (ecological) systems perspective to advance our understanding of how cultural phenomena develop and change over time and how more effective cultures and systems can be designed (Cihon & Mattaini, 2019 , 2020b ). The purpose of the current article is to describe CBS, to introduce the recently formulated Association for Behavior Analysis International verified course sequence (VCS) and certificate program in CBS, and to present different pathways to training in CBS. We do this through the presentation of examples from the literature and from four universities that have adopted the CBS VCS and certificate program that are illustrative of how different programs may approach research and training in CBS.

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