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DIVISION 25 RECORDER BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS Volume 36, Number 1 Summer, 2003 MARIAN BRELAND BAILEY: A GENTLE WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS ROBERT E. BAILEY Hot Springs, Arkansas arian Breland Bailey (b. Kruse, December 2, 1920) died MSeptember 25, 2001. She was an accomplished scien- tist, teacher, writer, animal trainer, and humanitarian. She was my loving wife and a devoted mother. Marian also was the last of the Hot Springs, Arkansas Threesome that forever changed behavioral psychology, especially animal training. It is my priv- ilege to share for the first time the fascinating story of Marian and Keller Breland (d. 1965), and Grant Evans (d. 1997). Behavioral psychologists and other scientists know that Marian and Keller Breland were students and associates of B. F. Skinner. Sparked by their work on Skinner’s famous Pigeon in a Pelican project during the war, they left their nearly complet- ed psychology doctoral programs in 1943, formed a company called Animal Behavior Enterprises (ABE), and made their liv- ing applying Skinner’s laboratory work. The Brelands believed that making operant conditioning work commercially would In Memoriam: Marian Breland Bailey 1920-2001 speed the acceptance of Skinner’s discoveries and could accel- erate a humane approach to animal training. mal trainers would not change their methods simply because Keller and Marian knew that entertaining people was key to the Brelands said they should, the Brelands set out to validate their future business success. Rather than working exclusively their own case. with rats and pigeons, the Brelands knew that they must enter The Brelands based their new system of training on operant the exotic animal world usually reserved for circus and dog conditioning. Animal training was thousands of years old, but trainers. Part of their stated mission was to make animal train- trainers had not used reinforcement systematically. Marian pro- ing more effective and humane. Knowing that traditional ani- MARION BRELAND BAILEY: (continued on page 4) Marian Breland Bailey: The 2002 Don Hake Basic/Applied A Gentle Woman for All Seasons................... 1 Research Award Address................................. 8 For The Record ................................................. 2 Announcements............................................. 11 2002 Division 25 Award Recipients................ 3 Application for Membership......................... 12 American Psychological Association, Division 25 Convention Program ................... 6 In This Issue… BA FOR THE RECORD DIVISION 25 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHRISTINE E. HUGHES, RAYMOND C. PITTS, Editors, Division 25 Recorder PRESIDENT: Carol A. Pilgrim University of North Carolina at Wilmington e are very happy to complete our second issue of The PRESIDENT-ELECT: Recorder. Health issues have slowed us down this W Steven I. Dworkin past year, but we are approaching the end of our struggle and University of North Carolina at Wilmington wanted to send this issue before the conference. We apologize to Division 25 members for our delay and, especially, to the PAST PRESIDENT: contributors to this issue, who met our initial deadlines, but William J. McIlvane then had to wait so long for the product of their labors. University of Massachusetts Medical School – Shriver Center For this issue, Robert Bailey graciously wrote a memorial to Marian Breland Bailey (1920-2001). In his memorial, he MEMBERS-AT LARGE: describes the history of Animal Behavior Enterprises and the Mark Galizio many accomplishments of not only Marian, but also of Keller University of North Carolina at Wilmington Breland and Grant Evans - the “Arkansas Threesome.” Kathryn Saunders Also included in this issue is an article by the 2002 recipient University of Kansas - Parsons Research Center of the Don Hake Basic/Applied Research Award, Jack Michael. Bruce A. Thyer We hope that 2003 award winners will submit short articles Florida State University based on their APA addresses for consideration for publication SECRETARY: in The Recorder. We also would like to invite award winners Thomas S. Critchfield from the years 2000-2002 to submit articles based on their APA Illinois State University addresses if they are interested. An important feature of this issue is a copy of Division 25’s TREASURER: program for the upcoming APA conference in Toronto. Kate Larry A. Alferink Illinois State University Saunders has arranged an excellent program, and we thank her for her hard work. As “2nd program chair” this year, I (CH) COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE learned a lot about organizing and submitting the program from Eileen D. Gambrill University of California - Berkeley FOR THE RECORD: (continued on page 3) THE DIVISION 25 RECORDER he Division 25 Recorder is the official publication of Submissions should be sent to Dr. Christine E. Hughes Tthe American Psychological Association’s Division 25 (Co-Editor) or Dr. Raymond C. Pitts (Co-Editor), The for Behavior Analysis. Historically, it has been published Division 25 Recorder, Department of Psychology, University three times a year (Spring, Summer, and Winter) and of North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 S. College Road, received by the Division 25 membership, Division affiliates, Wilmington, NC, USA 28403-5612 (tel 910-962-7795 or student affiliates, and individual and institutional sub- -7293; email: [email protected] or [email protected]). scribers. The newsletter also is sent to the presidents and Subscriptions and changes of address for regular affiliate, newsletter editors of the other APA divisions, officers of student affiliate, individual, and institutional subscriptions APA, the American Psychological Society, the Association should be sent to Thomas S. Critchfield, Secretary Division for Behavior Analysis, and the Association for the 25, Department of Psychology, Illinois State University, Advancement of Behavior Therapy. Campus Box 4620, Normal, IL, USA, 61790-4620. Changes The Division 25 Recorder informs readers about the of address for APA members of the Division should be sent Division and APA governance and membership activities. It directly to APA. publishes letters to the editor, open letters to the Division’s Executive Committee, news and notes about experimental, Deadline for submissions for the next issue is applied, and conceptual analyses of behavior. The newsletter OCTOBER 1. is not an archival publication for scientific manuscripts, but BA will occasionally publish unsolicited comments and queries. 2 BA FOR THE RECORD: (continued from page 2) Kate and will put these skills to good use during this coming DIVISION 25 year. The deadline for submissions for the 2004 APA meeting STANDING COMMITTEES in Honolulu, Hawaii is sooner than we may think. I encourage AND CHAIRS and welcome any suggestions about and submissions of sympo- siums or presentations. ARCHIVES: This is the second issue sent electronically. We received very James T. Todd positive feedback about the format of the previous issue; this Eastern Michigan University reinforcement has strengthened our use of email for future dis- semination of The Recorder. In future issues, we would like to AWARDS COMMITTEE: highlight behavior-analysis doctoral and, especially, masters-level Cathleen C. Piazza programs or concentrations within programs. As our Division Marcus Institute and member-base is quite broad, we thought this would be a good Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine way of letting others, who may not come into contact with the programs, know about potential outlets for their students. BA FELLOWS: Mark Galizio University of North Carolina at Wilmington 2003 DIVISION 25 MEMBERSHIP: AWARD RECIPIENTS Eric A. Jacobs Southern Illinois University B.F. Skinner New Researcher Award: NEWSLETTER EDITORS: Sung Woo Kahng Christine E. Hughes Kennedy Krieger Institute Raymond C. Pitts University of North Carolina at Wilmington Don Hake Basic/Applied Research Award: NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS William McIlvane Kathryn Saunders University of Massachusetts – Shriver Center University of Kansas - Parsons Research Center Fred S. Keller Behavioral Education Award: POLITICAL ACTION: Linda Hayes Carol A. Pilgrim (President) University of Nevada-Reno University of North Carolina at Wilmington Steven I. Dworkin (President-Elect) Outstanding Applied University of North Carolina at Wilmington Research Award: Brian Iwata William J. McIlvane (Past President) University of Florida University of Massachusetts Medical School – Shriver Center Outstanding Basic Research Award: PROGRAM: Joseph Brady Kathryn Saunders (Co-chair) Johns Hopkins University University of Kansas - Parsons Research Center School of Medicine Christine E. Hughes (Co-chair) Outstanding University of North Carolina at Wilmington Dissertation Award: Jason Landon WEBSITE AND LISTSERV: University of Auckland M. Christopher Newland Auburn University Honorable mention: Erin Rasmussen – Auburn University 3 BA MARION BRELAND BAILEY: (continued from page 1) much to the consternation of those around nical manuals. He also was an inventor her. Her colleagues learned not to say and could build sophisticated and novel posed that the Brelands concentrate on much, however, because more than once hardware that worked. He was an intel- studying reinforcement, specifically the her phobia for discard saved the day. lectual in the truest sense of the word, secondary reinforcer, or bridging stimu- The Brelands recognized data as the enjoying math and logic puzzles as well lus, (a Breland-coined word, now com- lifeblood of experimental psychology, as reading classic
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