Behavior analysis has uncovered dozens of behavioral principles. Principles rarely act one at a time, though. We study how they combine and interact into the behavior of a whole organism: over time, across contexts, and from the molecular, moment-to-moment control of behavior up to its molar, aggregate patterns.
That question runs across a basic, translational, and applied continuum. In the lab, human operant experiments and artificial organisms let us test how processes combine. Out of the lab, that work moves into settings of social significance (e.g., ethics, clinical and autism service delivery, substance use, and even baseball). A common methodological backbone runs through all of it: rigorous science, a growing pile of data, and quantitative analysis.
The throughline is integration: molecular to molar, basic to applied, and back again.
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