Talk:Behavioral engineering

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Read Walden Two. Skinner.

NICE SOURCES! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.127.124.178 (talk) 23:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I believe that this page is starting to come nicely Jcautilli2003 (talk) 00:06, 23 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Has anyone come up with a Immersion or Augmented reality tech to reprogram detainees to be less brutal. Similar to the film, "Demolition Man" where Mr. Stallone wanted to knit due to the "behavioral engineering program" Truthfully this wouldn't be to hard to create all is needed is to creating a repetitive game/program that uses the Oculus Rift. Maybe even give detainees time reduction for volunteering to use the "behavioral engineering program."

Merging with the Applied behavior analysis (ABA) Wikipedia page?

Behavioral engineering is another term for ABA, and I think this page should merge into the ABA Wikipedia page. See here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403907/ (the study titled "The psychiatric nurse as a behavioral engineer" that was published in the Journal of EAB in 1958 became the basis for the founding of the Journal of ABA 10 years later) and https://www.amazon.com/Behavior-Analysis-Learning-Biobehavioral-Approach/dp/1138898589/ (the 2017 textbook written by two behavior analysts in the field wrote that "ABA is also called behavioral engineering") ATC^{. Talk} 00:30, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, yes, it's bizarre to have two entries if we're claiming they're the same thing. I'm not sure they are synonymous though: a Google Scholar search seems to mostly show this phrase being used in other contexts. I wouldn't necessarily take the word of ABA textbook-writers; behaviourists have sometimes been known to claim things as their own when others would firmly disagree. Oolong (talk) 07:52, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that as they stand, the two entries would benefit from merger. If the concepts each describes are significantly different, the entries should explain how.Transient-understanding (talk) 01:59, 19 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion has received no replies for 2 years and yet the issue still stands that these are essentially the same topic. 134.215.176.89 (talk) 21:05, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]