Basically, the next step involves you and me and other readers supporting, perhaps even agitating for (Dare I say “campaigning for”?) establishing more university behaviorology programs and departments. We all require these to meet growing needs. (See the wanted poster at the end of this column, and show it to those people who are in positions to help.)
We can share and apply more than morals about what we have discovered regarding human nature and human behavior. We may finally be arriving at some scientifically, as well as emotionally, satisfactory and difference–making answers across science disciplines working to solve human problems.
We approach the story of behavior and its causes as natural scientists. Traditional natural sciences cover the basic subject matters of energy, matter, and life forms as well as their related extensions. These thus include physics, chemistry, and biology, along with astronomy, geology, physiology, and so on.
Consider a little detail on some superseded alternatives from the early days of behaviorology. This can help clarify the current directions of this science. Across the over 100 years of its existence, several types of behaviorism sequentially grappled, with increasing success, with the question of how, effectively, to handle private events.
