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Thank you for being a behavior analyst.

Travel to your clients house and back again.

Your functional contextualism is true. You're a scientist who builds rapport.

And if you ran discrete trials, invited everyone you knew

You would see the greatest responding would be from me

And the consequence would be my saying

Thank you for being a behavior analyst.

Articles discussed this episode:

Loomis, K. Morales, L., Yeo, Y., & Fienup, D.M. (2026). Turning the page: Increasing young children's preference for looking at and engaging with books. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 59. doi: 10.1002/jaba.70051

Bigwood, L., Staples, E., & Sharp, R. (2026). Making preference assessments more acceptable and effective for people with dementia. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi: 10.1007/s40617-025-01145-x

Kaplan, B. A., Gelino, B. W., & Reed, D. D. (2018). A behavioral economic approach to green consumerism: Demand for reusable shopping bags. Behavior and Social Issues, 27, 20-30. doi: 10.5210/bsi.v.27i0.8003