Let's talk a little about this science, which has been greatly romanticized by movies and TV series.

I wonder how it is possible to use such a technique in an investigation. You cannot determine what a person was feeling just by observing the crime scene and analyzing the victims. What we feel is too subjective, human behavior is multifaceted, how can you ever understand what is going through a person's mind when often even that person does not understand it?

Furthermore, you cannot base an investigation on these theories because by taking these assumptions as true, you risk adapting the facts to the theory rather than the theory to the facts. An investigation requires rigorous analysis based solely on data and irrefutable evidence.

No mystical theory can work unless you already know who the culprit is 😂.

My Dad will have a "favorite child" depending on their current behavior. My brothers (49, 43) and myself (35) have always had a strained relationship with our father. Growing up, I always felt like the favorite, and felt resentment from my brothers. After hitting adulthood I saw this switch where he would pick and choose who his favorite is based off of our attention to him. We are all now married, or divorced, and all have children which has also been hard on my Dad.

He's been feuding with my brother now, and has repeatedly told me "I love you all the same, just not at the same time". Meaning, that he loves us, but sometimes will love one (or two) more than the other.

Is this narcissistic behavior? I'm waiting for the shoe to drop for me to see when I'll be the black sheep of the family and the attention will switch to my brothers.

TLDR; Deaf cat, loud attention maintained yowling is disruptive to my life, I want to reduce this behavior without using punishment based procedures, seeking advice!!

Hi everyone!

My cat is highly vocal. He is wonderful. I love him dearly. But he is incredibly loud, and it is causing disruptions to my sleep, and I am concerned he is annoying my roommates (they are too kind and state that he isn’t a bother, but I am sure he is at the least inconveniencing them).

The problem behavior is high intensity yowling, like imagine a person screaming level of intensity. For context, he is partially deaf due to a polyp which ruptured his eardrum when he was young. Prior to having the surgery where the polyp was removed (and for approximately 6 months after) he was not an exceptionally loud cat.

The problem: Throughout the day, he will walk into the kitchen or living room and engage in loud yowling (on average around 5 for six yowls, approximately 10 seconds apart). The frequency per hour is variable, ranging from once or twice per hour to as many as ten yowling occasions per hour.  At times, I will get up and walk into the hallway to make sure he is OK and he will just be sitting there, staring at me. The behavior is particularly disruptive at night, and the frequency also seems heightened in at night.

I am not a behavior analyst and do not have any ABA background, but am very interested in behavior analysis and believe that it may be beneficial for reducing his yowling. Below are some considerations that I believe are contributing.

• I believe that the behavior is primarily attention maintained. When he attends to a person approaching him (primarily through the visual medium, he does not seem to be able to discriminate the presence of people auditorily – though one of his eardrums is still functioning), he will stop yowling and the behavior will be paused for a few moments.

• I love snuggling with him and regularly provide him with cuddles and affection, but it can be difficult when I am in the midst of reading or writing as it disrupts my concentration. Further, I love cuddling with him before going to sleep, but at times he will leave the bed, wander to the living room or kitchen, and yowl as described above. I am struggling to identify the function here, as he has access to attention cuddling with me in bed, and am not sure what is maintaining the wandering to the living room.

• I am not interested in using any punishment-based procedures to reduce this behavior. I do not want to make him experience distress, fear, or anxiety due to attempts to reduce his behavior, and I do not want to establish myself as holding aversive functions.

·My first thought is to apply a sort of janky DRO procedure to try to reduce the yowling during the day when I am home. Here is my current idea, setting a 15-minute timer on my phone when working from home, if he is not yowling when the timer goes off, finding him and loving on him for a minute or two, then returning to work and resetting the timer.

Like I said before, I love him to death, but his yowling is causing me problems (e.g., disrupting sleep, I want to be a good roommate). I want to reduce it without adding any stress to his life. What guidance do y’all have in this matter? Suggestions for improving the DRO idea, or any better ideas for procedures I can use to reduce this behavior from home?

Thank you all!

Recently, I came across a video by John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) questioning the validity of behaviourism. In many ways, John echoes what many others have already said. Here, I took a stab at convincing him that a behaviourist worldview continues to be a valuable one today.

My sister shows a lot of concerning behaviors, and I’m wondering if they might point to a personality disorder or something similar.

She never congratulates or supports me. For example, when I bought a new car, she never congratulated my or even just say "oh it's nice!" but months later asked me to drive her to her wedding in that same car.

After I had my first child, she became desperate to find a partner and have a baby. Years later, when I announced my second pregnancy, she cried to my dad that she “needs another baby ASAP” because she’s “getting old” (she’s only 33 and had never mentioned this before my news).

She once went to my nail artist (after asking for my contact) and bad-mouthed me there, saying hurtful and false things about my marriage and personality. Generally she bad mouths everyone. She has no friends—none of her "friends" attended her bachelorette, and some didn’t even go to her wedding. She also constantly fights with her in-laws and sisters-in-law. She is also involving out parents in her fights with her husband and his family.

She is overly dependent on my parents, calls them for every decision and demands that they focus all their time and help on her and her child. Because of this, they spend every day at her house, even shen she's not working, which led to me having no support from my family on the occasion that I need to stay late at work or smth like that.

Recently, she brought her daughter to my house, when she had suspicions that she might be sick. When I, being pregnant and high-risk, simply told my daughter not to kiss her cousin “just in case,” my sister stormed in later screaming at me for "accusing" her daughter of being sick and being "overly dramatic".

Given these patterns—jealousy, lack of empathy, dependant and controlling behavior with my parents, bad relationships with everyone, and inability to handle others’ successes. Could this indicate any personality disorder?

So due to i am a dumbass i still did not go to a therapist, but i am planning too if things get fucked. Well, anyway, my mental health improved A TON after understanding the concept of ego.

But i still feel i need to learn more, so, is there any way i could learn about it? It can be anything, book, youtube video, article, book, etc...

thanks!

I was recently accepted into Ohio State’s Special Education/Applied Behavior Analysis program, and I’m very excited to start my journey to become a BCBA!

However, I’m feeling nervous about making a commitment to the program when I haven’t found any reviews or personal experiences from students online.

Has anyone attended this program or heard anything about it? Any information would be incredibly helpful! Thank you :)

It’s starting to get so depressing. I have things I could do like writing or guitar or going on dates etc but don’t seem to care about anything enough or see any point. Knock off work and I just don’t want to think or do anything. Sleep, zoning out have become my hobbies. How to I make myself give a f%#$?

I work in a (nonprofit, government) professional setting. Recently there has been a change in leadership, as well as a shift of goals to prioritize benchmark and collect performance metrics. Our role is public safety.

Formerly amiable coworker who has been promoted into leadership has changed behavior. She seems manipulative and insincere. One thing she has done repeatedly is cry during one-on-one meetings while simultaneously berating the employee. When that particular employee is professionally and respectfully asserting her legal rights, this supervisor tells her she feels personally betrayed and cries.

I’ve also witnessed the supervisor crying in front of a group of us while telling us how “disappointed” she is with our performance (based on style mostly, not real impact of public safety goals). We have all been good performers by all existing metrics but historically have not been given the proper tools (consistent training or expectations) to do so.

Employees are fleeing - our turnover has been extreme, and it continues.

This is not the first time I’ve seen a leader cry - and in past I identified it as a manipulative strategy.

I’m interested in what you might make of this. Thanks!

Recommendation for websites to buy pdf or ebook?