2021 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 111-127
The present paper reports a conceptual analysis of the relationship between the experimental analysis of behavior and radical behaviorism, and discusses (a) 4 features of the experimental analysis of behavior, based on the historical background of the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, (b) 3 features of radical behaviorism, (c) the relationship between the experimental analysis of behavior and radical behaviorism, and (d) behavior analysis and the replication crisis in psychology, as an example of the contemporary significance of such a conceptual analysis. Radical behaviorism does not refer simply to the scientific study of behavior, but rather it is an argument about the subject matter of psychology and its research methodology. Radical behaviorism could be viewed as the foundation of the experimental analysis of behavior. Its inextricably linked relationships provide a soundness for the replication crisis in psychology.
