Night of the Shaping Dead: Zombie Behavior, Shaping, and Resurgence
Criminal Behaviorology
\nNight of the Shaping Dead: Zombie Behavior, Shaping, and Resurgence
\nBeing as it is the Halloween season, we can have some fun, right? Dr. Kennon Lattal wrote two blogs for the Aubrey Daniels Institute about zombies from a behavior analytic perspective. Why not? Dr. Lattal is on sabbatical currently, but was gracious enough to respond to my email questions. Let\u2019s suspend the \u201cdead man rule\u201d in behavior analysis (where we say that if a dead man can do it we do not accept it as an intervention, i.e., \u201cstay in one place,\u201d \u201cdon\u2019t make any noise,\u201d etc.) and instead apply an undead rule as we seek to understand how to deal with zombies through behavior analysis.
\nShow Highlights:
\n- Why is shaping as a concept so important, and is it misunderstood \u2013 or just NOT understood at all?
\n- What makes social relevance important and how do we determine what might be socially relevant in one instance or another?
\n- How does one go about deciding where to start in terms of shaping behavior and how fast one should proceed from one step to the next? Do you find people are frustrated in the success of shaping because, with zombies or people, the progress can be quite slow?
\n- What is resurgence, and how can it serve as an explanation for societal problems such as addiction or criminal recidivism?
\n- How can resurgence result in behavior generally seen as positive (unlike what we usually see out of zombies)?
\nDr. Lattal\u2019s page on West Virginia University:
\nhttps://psychology.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-directory/kennon-lattal
\nHow to Shape a Zombie
\nhttps://www.aubreydaniels.com/blog/how-shape-zombie
\nZombies and Resurgence: A Halloween Analysis
\nhttps://www.aubreydaniels.com/blog/zombies-and-resurgence-halloween-analysis
\nArticle on Shaping (Ekerman, et al., 1980):
\nhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1332956/pdf/jeabehav00082-0006.pdf
\nArticle on Resurgence in the Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis:
\nhttp://rmac-mx.org/category/vol-41-no-2-numero-monografico-2015/
\nDay of the Dead (1985)
\nhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088993/
\nNight of the Living Dead (1968)
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\nZombie (1979)
\nhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080057/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
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