Julio Varela’s accessible, concept-by-concept guide to interbehavioral psychology — everyday examples paired with precise definitions from Kantor, Ribes & López.
“Fields indicate that events consist of systems in which things or processes are in intimate relation with each other so that descriptions and explanations can be made without supernatural or transcendental powers, forces, and causes”(Kantor, 1984, p. 171)
For J. R. Kantor (1888-1984), psychology studies not just the person. Psychological events emerge from the interaction over time of several factors: individuals, environmental stimuli, setting factors, and media of contact (Kantor, 1959, pp. 15-16). Based on this conceptualization, Kantor developed a naturalistic viewpoint, interbehavioral psychology or interbehaviorism. Among his other contributions, Kantor co-founded a scholarly press, the Principia Press (1932), founded a journal, The Psychological Record (1937), and published twenty books and many articles. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago (1917) and served on the psychology faculty at Indiana University (1920-1959) (Mountjoy & Cone, 1997, 2006).
Edited by Richard M. Lerner and Gary Greenberg, The Heredity Hoax: Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories of Human Development is a comprehensive collection of scholarly work that systematically dismantles the premise of genetic reductionism. The core mission of the book is to challenge the "fatally flawed science" associated with accounts that view human behavior and development through a strictly...
Ivan Pavlov, a Russian life in science. Daniel P. Todes. “Contrary to legend, Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936) never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell. In over three decades of research and tens of thousands of experimental trials, he and his coworkers used a bell only in rare, unimportant circumstances. Indeed, the iconic bell would have proven totally useless to his real goal, which...
Por paradójico que parezca, sigue siendo cierto que la psicología ha luchado en vano durante siglos por convertirse en una ciencia porque intentó modelarse sobre la física. El autor revisa brevemente esta circunstancia, aparentemente inconsistente, como un trasfondo para considerar uno de los últimos intentos de moldear los datos psicológicos sobre el lecho procusteano de la física. (1) La física...
In “The Myth of Mind: A Challenge to Mainstream Psychology and Its Imposed Constructs” (Available as audiobook) Noel Wilson Smith critiques the foundations of mainstream psychology, arguing that its reliance on concepts like “mind” and “consciousness” hinders scientific progress. Instead of viewing these concepts as distinct entities or causal agents...
“Psychological Linguistics” by J.R. Kantor (this book is available in our web in Spanish as Lingüística Psicológica), presents a comprehensive framework for understanding language as a complex system of behavior. It critiques traditional linguistic approaches, which often focus on abstract structures and mentalistic concepts, and argues for an objective, scientific understanding of...
The book An Outline of Social Psychology (also available in Spanish as Un esbozo de Psicología Social in this web) explores the interaction between biological and psychological phenomena. It challenges the notion that human nature consists of innate powers, forces, and capacities, arguing instead that human personality is shaped by reactional experiences. The book emphasizes the importance of...
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