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After roughly twenty years as a software developer, my wife (Kay Jones) and I moved from the Washington, DC, metro area to a rental house on the southern coast of Oregon to enjoy the scenery and the quiet while I figure out what comes next. After a couple of years in Brookings, Kay and I put all of our belongings into storage, and hit the road in an RV. We are now "fulltimers", that is, we live in and travel in a RV full time.
Prior to becoming a professional nerd, I trained as an experimental behavior analyst in the Psychology Department at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia where I worked with Don Hake.
Okay, if you followed the experimental behavior analyst link, you may have noticed that it was a doctoral program, yet I only have a masters. So what happened? Well, while doing the coursework, practicum placements, etc., I was also playing with computers as part of my animal research, and was doing a computer science minor. I got so enthralled by computing that I barely got around to defending my masters thesis, let alone doing the comprehensive exams, dissertation, and so on (many thanks to Julie Vargas, who pushed me to defend my masters!).
During the first few years after leaving the program I occassionally toyed with the idea of going back to complete my doctorate, but my addiction to computing is too strong, and then there was a daughter to support, a mortgage, car payments, etc. Now it is way too late. I have done some work that was very loosely related to Behavior Analysis, but mostly I have worked in information retrieval (see my Work History for more details).
This page does not get updated very often. My visit to Denton, TX, to see my old buddy Cloyd Hyten in April, 2005, prompted some updates. There were a LOT of broken links!
General information and links to my favoriate sites related in some way to Behavior Analysis.
Also see the Behavior Analysis category in the Open Directory.
If you feel like helping the field out financially and would like to get a tax break in the process, give to a Behavior Analysis related non-profit.
My favorite B.A. charity is:
Don F. Hake Fund for Behavior Analysis
West Virginia University Foundation, Inc.
3168 Collins Ferry Road
P.O. Box 4533
Morgantown, WV 26504
304-598-2700Contact John C. Fisler, Assistant VP for Development, for more information.
Another nice one is:
The "Behavior Analyst Today" is interesting in that it is an online-only journal. You can download entire issues in PDF format. It would be nice if the site were searchable, and it were possible to download individual articles. It would also be nice if the abstracts of articles were available on the web site as plain text.
You can search "Behavior Analyst Today" using Google by including the phrase:
site:behavior-analyst-online.org
as part of your query. As in this query that finds the issue with Cloyd Hyten's 2002 article "On the Identity Crisis in OBM" in vol 3, #3. Just for fun, there is the abstract (all typos are mine):
Hyten, C. (2002) On the Identity Crisis in OBM. Behavior Analyst Today, 3, 301-310. Some confusion exists at present in the OBM community regarding the subject matter of the discipline and how concepts from outside the tradition of behavior analysis should be handled. Some of the confustion is traced to differences in historic definitions of the field, as well as issues concerning the compatibility of systems analytic concepts. Systems models used in performance-oriented analyses of organizational functioning are reviewed and compared to behavior analytic approaches. A strategy of analyzing the behavior of managers in large corporate systems is suggested as a way to better integrate systems analytic and behavior analytic approaches to understanding and improving performance.
Journals Containing Some Behavior Analysis:
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