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Although Jack Michael has greatly influenced the field of behavior analysis, very few have had the opportunity to be directly supervised by him. In this article, I share my personal history as one of Jack’s last graduate students to illustrate his teaching and mentorship approach. Jack was a caring advisor who has had a long-lasting impact on both my personal life and my professional career.
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I attended the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo in Brazil as a psychology major.
PSYC 181: Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
I also had just published a tutorial on EOs in Portuguese (Miguel, 2000). Jack thought the main reason I did not like the new term was that I would then have to write another paper to introduce the MO concept.
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Miguel, C.F. Jack and Me. Analysis Verbal Behav 37, 266–271 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-021-00158-1
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