Topography-based and selection-based verbal behavior: A further comparison

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - Michael (1985) identified two types of verbal behavior, topography-based (e.g., speaking or using sign language) and selection-based (e.g., using a symbol board)....     

The Pigeon Parlance Project

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior - A student laboratory procedure for teaching simple analogs of verbal behavior to pigeons is described. The three kinds of stimulus-response relations are analogs...     

Sleep hygiene practices and sleep duration in rotating-shift shiftworkers

Alcohol, caffeine and tobacco intake, exercise, activities on going to bed, and sleep-enhancing measures were assessed in 72 rotating-shift shiftworkers to determine whether these variables differ following day shifts and night-shifts, and which are related to sleep duration. Only alcohol intake and exercise prior to sleep, and feeling drowsy when retiring, differed following the night-shift. Workers generally followed recommendations concerning alcohol intake, sleeping immediately on retiring, and exercising, but acted contrary to recommendations concerning caffeine and nicotine intake. The only behaviour clearly associated with poor sleep was smoking, which reduced sleep duration.     

Friendship

This article questions the definition of man-sharing arrangements of 11 legal and 11 consensual wives as polygamy. The holistic approach of anthropology would negate Scott's definition of man-sharing as polygyny. The article concludes that though a deviant form of family formation exists, American culture does not socially or legally recognize polygyny.