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The Effect of Nurture: Tony Biglan Discusses the Importance of a Positive Environment
Tony Biglan has been an advocate, researcher and behavior analyst. His 2015 book, The Nurture Effect, covers many areas including adolescent behavior problems, cigarette smoking, mental health treatment, and corporate influence through precise, behaviorally-derived marketing campaigns. In this discussion, Tony Biglan gives us an optimistic worldview, but shows the need for how behavioral science is the key to making a better world.
This interview can be viewed in its entirety at our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/Q4_dNfmaZQA
The views of our guests do not necessarily reflect those of Criminal Behaviorology, nor our sponsors, if we had any.
Show Highlights:
- Tony’s personal journey in seeing how behavior analysis can be used to solve interpersonal and mental health problems.
- The Good Behavior Game and the reduction in child misconduct.
- The teaching of self-regulation.
- Private prisons and criminal justice.
- The “third wave” in behavior therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Schizophrenia and ACT as a treatment.
- Corporations marketing to the young: What all parents should be aware of.
- Tony’s thoughts on capitalism and modern society.
- The cigarette manufacturers. The significance of the Powell memo.
- The 2018 Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) Substance Abuse Conference in Washington, D.C.
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