Editorial: Verbal Behavior and Motivating Operations

Pétursdóttir, Anna Ingeborg

doi:10.1007/bf03393118

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“…A popular press book on child development by another former student (see Schlinger, 1995) heavily references Jack's publications on the EO/MO. Finally, a special section entitled "Motivating Operations and Verbal Behavior" recently appeared in The Analysis of Verbal Behavior (Volume 29, 2013), with one of Jack's former students providing the introductory editorial (see Petursdottir, 2013) and two students (also former editors of the journal) contributing topic articles (see Miguel, 2013;Sundberg, 2013…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

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“…Much of the professional literature that has emanated from Jack's work is currently being published in this journal, where Jack served as Editor from 2004 through 2007. Several subsequent editors have discussed the journal's trends and impact factor as well as improvements, changes, and direction for its future (e.g., Luke & Carr, 2015;Miguel, 2011;Petursdottir, 2013;Petursdottir et al, 2009).…”

Section: Teaching Contributionsmentioning

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A Bibliographic Tribute to Jack Michael

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2016

Analysis Verbal Behav

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In the late 1950's, Jack Michael, a bright but irritating young psychology instructor, moved from the Universities of Kansas to Houston to Arizona State. Along the way he befriended two nontraditional students, protected them through their Ph.D. programs, and turned them loose on the world: Teodoro Ayllon…and Montrose Wolf…" (Risley, 2001, p. 267). So begins Risley's chapter on the origins of applied behavior analysis. For almost 50 years, Jack Michael provided a model for us to "talk like Skinner" and to analyze behavior as Skinner would. For this, he has been widely respected and revered. The purpose of this bibliography is to explain to new and familiar readers alike Jack's contributions to the field of behavior analysis in areas of his primary focus: (a) behavioral function taxonomy, (b) motivation, (c) reinforcement, (d) response topographies, (e) multiple control, (f) duplic and codic verbal behavior, and (g) teaching. Throughout, we weave his role in the field's history and his leadership in its expansion, as these have been additional areas of significant contributions. Above all, we wish to highlight Jack's work, in bibliographic and narrative form, in a way that expresses a heartfelt tribute on behalf of his students and others whom he influenced to learn about psychology as a natural science and to think and talk like Skinner. Keywords Jack Michael. bibliography. verbal behavior. motivating operations. stimulus control This bibliography is written in a somewhat informal style to give readers a sense of Jack's affability, yet also to highlight his precise attention to the details of our "verbal behavior about behavior." In fact, he was a stickler for these details. Former students will recall his frequent NQR ("not quite right") written in the margins of a quiz paper, leading many to examine their own intraverbal and transcriptive behaviors and

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Section: Motivationmentioning

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Section: Teaching Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Bibliographic Tribute to Jack Michael

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Esch²

2016

Analysis Verbal Behav

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Authorship Trends in The Analysis of Verbal Behavior: 1982–2016

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Goyos

2017

Analysis Verbal Behav

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The Analysis of Verbal Behavior (TAVB) is the only journal focused on theoretical and empirical research in verbal behavior. An assessment of authorship trends can provide a critical perspective on practices in verbal behavior analysis (e.g., participation by non-US institutions, contributions by female authors). The present study examines authorship trends in all articles published in TAVB since its inception (between 1982 and 2016). All authors and their affiliations were listed and the first authors denoted as such. Authors were characterized as follows: prolificacy, new vs. frequent contributor status, number of co-authors, editor status, fellow status in a professional organization, and gender. Institutional affiliations were characterized as follows: academic vs. nonacademic institutions, prolificacy, and location (country). The review included 383 articles by 487 authors from 200 institutions. Our findings revealed areas in which TAVB is reaching maturity (e.g., author gender) and areas in which further action by contributors and editors is needed (e.g., international participation). Keywords Authorship trends. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Verbal behavior Verbal Behavior News was created in 1982 by the Verbal Behavior Special Interest Group (VB SIG) of the Association for Behavior Analysis. This newsletter provided up-to-date information on developments in verbal behavior (VB) research and teaching. More substantive submissions led to the creation of a journal, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior (TAVB), in 1985 (Sundberg, 1997). From its inaugural issue, TAVB has primarily focused on publishing original papers pertaining to verbal behavior (Skinner, 1957).

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