Looking into the head

After all, if organic disease is suspected, or known to exist. introspection - looking into the head or
the body - is warranted and necessary.  Under normal circumstances, you don't feel what happens
inside; i.e., only if something is wrong do you feel your heart weaken or beating strong.
This may explain why we take the normal state of affairs so much for granted, we don't even ask
why people are normal and friendly.
Mostly, we think like internists: the source of mental retardation, delusion, hyperactivity,
self-damage, etc., has to be genetic.
Yet scientific data, derived from reflex and operant analysis, illustrate external sources: reinforcing contingencies in laboratory settings as well as applied science environments.
I employ the term "science" for a functional analysis and "scientific" to denote the measurement
which Skinner called his basic dependent variable:
probability of response that emerges in cumulative records and reflects the partial movements
made by every single subject. Today, apathy for expansion in the way Skinner predicted will be fruitful (personal letter) is interfering with progress and the welfare of behavior analysis.

More and more people - albeit unknowingly - side with BF Skinner when he declares himself most concerned with the possible relevance of a behavioral analysis to the problems of the world today.
There is no doubt about that relevance but alone, behavior scientists will not save the world.
Humans need to unite: terrorists and freedom fighters, patriots and traitors, behaviors are the
same on all sides of political, or ideological, or geographical borders.
Many people know what human means, physically, biologically and behaviorally.
And just in case anyone thinks I worked all this out by myself: I had the best teachers and mentors.
Their articles still exist and I owe more to them than I can say.