Abstract
Six common sources of contingencies are suggested, to provide an overall framework for analysing behavior and taking account of the many variables which control human behavior. Controlling contingencies can be produced by the physical environment, by multiple contingency interactions, by meta-contingencies, by social behavior without a verbal community, by verbal communities, and through social rituals which reinforce behaviors that maintain the verbal communities. Different interventions are briefly suggested which are appropriate for each source of contingency. An example is given of how we might analyse smoking behavior and how smoking has been controlled by interventions appropriate to the six sources of control.
