Forty years after the publication of “Behavior theory: A field and parametric analysis”

Abstract

With our younger readers in mind, this presentation must begin by noting that the publication of the work that the “Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis” (MJBA) deemed worthy of celebration is no small matter in the history of Mexican psychology, nor in the history of psychology in general. In the former case, we are speaking of what is surely the only unifying theory on psychological phenomena developed within our own academic circles. This theory aims not only to offer a fruitful conceptual, organizational, and research framework for understanding such phenomena from a scientific perspective, but also to contribute to the technological application of the knowledge thus generated. This aims both to preserve the dignity of professional practice and to redistribute the potential benefits of this transformation of knowledge in a manner befitting an academic project historically supported by the public university.