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Sex, Drugs, and…behavior Analysis?

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Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a stereotypic picture of behavior analysis in practice before reading onward. If you are even remotely familiar with applied behavior analysis, you likely pictured a child sitting knee to knee with a therapist who is holding reinforcers with some academic-related task nearby. Alternatively, you may have imagined a classroom of students under the instruction of a teacher or a team of staff undergoing behavioral skills training in a workplace.

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Reed, D.D. Sex, Drugs, and…behavior Analysis?. Behav Analysis Practice 6, 80–81 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391808

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