BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AROUND THE WORLD: BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA --A PERSONAL MEMOIR

Abstract

A considerable portion of the development of behavior analysis in Britain occurred during a period when Pie writer was an active participant. Here, in a personal account, these developments and the present state of behavior analysis in Britain are described. Further, the development of a graduate program in behavior analysis in the USA is described, with some observations on the present state of behavior analysis in that country. Some comments are made on the dramatic changes that are now taking place in universities in the USA and in sorne other countries, and the prospects of behavior analysis in the context of those changes are briefly discussed.