Abstract
Our 1980 paper arose from seminar discussions about basic and applied behavior analysis occasioned by Sam Deitz's (1978) article in the American Psychologist. Frank and I complained that the ABA meetings and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) at that time seemed to be less concerned with contingencies of reinforcement (basic science) and more focused on clinical issues of treatment, helping clients, evaluation, and outcome. We decided to compile some evidence on the behavior of applied behavior analysts, using Volume 11 (1978) of JABA as our source. After coding articles and references in this volume, we found that the actual analysis of behavior was at low levels while cure-help behavior was flourishing. Armed with this evidence, Frank and I wrote the article in hopes of increasing the analysis in applied behavior analysis.
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