Women in Behavior Science: Observations on Life Inside and Outside the Academy - Tapa blanda

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Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, PhD, BCBA-D, is currently Dean at Waubonsee Community College. She has a 20+ year history of mentoring graduate students in behavior analysis, and has won a number of awards for her teaching and research while a faculty member at Southern Illinois University. Ruth Anne served as Editor for The Psychological Record, President for the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), and is Fellow of both the Association for Behavior Analysis International and the Association for Contextual Behavior Science. Her research has focused on interventions for teaching language and cognitive skills in a variety of populations and settings.

Traci M. Cihon was an associate professor at the University of North Texas while this volume was completed. She is the current editor of Behavior and Social Issues, an active member of the Behaviorists for Social Responsibility Special Interest Group of ABAI, and maintains an active research agenda related to include culturo behavior science and behavioral systems analysis, social behavior and social action, behavioral approaches to education (e.g., language acquisition, reading instruction, Precision Teaching), and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Erin B. Rasmussen is Professor of Experimental Psychology at Idaho State University. Her research interests are broadly in the area of behavioral economics and behavioral pharmacology. Her specific work, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on behavioral economic factors that influence food-based choice related to obesity in both humans and rats.