About Dick Malott
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Malott received
his BA in psychology at Indiana University in 1958 where he was privileged
to study with James Dinsmoor. He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University
in 1963 where, he had the additional privilege of studying with William
Cumming, W. N. Schoenfeld, and Fred S. Keller. And, like many before
and after him, he frittered away a few years of his life doing research
on schedules of reinforcement. Then he taught with the Kantorians
at Denison University from 1963 to 1966. In 1966, he helped start
the behavior-analysis program at Western Michigan University, where
he continues to teach. At WMU, he also helped start an intro psych
course that taught behavior analysis to 1000 students per semester,
with the aid of 500 lab rats and 100 Skinner boxes (1000 lever-pressing
rats per year). Now, his students only condition 230 rats per year,
but they also do 130 self-management projects and provide 13,500 hours
of training to autistic children each year. Malott and his students
have packaged their teaching/learning efforts in educational systems
known as the Student-Centered Education Project (aka The First Fly-by-night
Underground College of Kalamazoo), the Behavioral Social Action Program,
and the Behavior Analysis Training System. Currently, every summer,
he teaches the Behavioral Boot Camp, an intense 18-hour-per-week,
7.5 week, graduate-level, behavior-analysis seminar. He has been actively
involved in teaching African-American students and international students
behavior analysis and behavior systems analysis at the graduate level.
He and his students developed and run the Behavioral Research Supervisory
System, a performance-management system to help 40 BA, MA, and Ph.D.
students per year, complete their projects, theses, and dissertations
with high quality and in a timely manner. In addition, he and his
students developed and run the Behavioral Academic and Career Counseling
service, a behavioral-systems approach to helping 100 students per
year get into behavior-analytic graduate programs and get behavior-analytic
jobs. Malott helped start Behaviordelia (a now-defunct publisher of
behavioral comic books, etc.), the Association for Behavior Analysis
(ABA), ABA’s Teaching Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group,
ABA’s Education Board, ABA’s Behavioral Follies (previously
known as the Behavioral Performing Arts), ABA’s Social (Previously
known as the Behavioral Boogie), the Behavioral Bulletin Board on
CompuServe, and the Notes from a Radical Behaviorist bulletin board
in the Cambridge Center’s Behavioral Virtual Community (http://www.behavior.org).
He wrote the newsletter and column Notes from a Radical Behaviorist
and coauthored Principles of Behavior (the book previously known as
Elementary Principles of Behavior.) He is now (and has been for many
years) working on I’ll Stop Procrastinating when I Get around
to It and Applied Behavioral Cognitive Analysis. He has presented
in 13 countries and has received two Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards.
In 2002, he also received ABA’s Award for Public Service in
Behavior Analysis. Over the years, he has also worked extensively
with multi-media presentations, from seven-projector slide shows to
contemporary PowerPoint presentations, but always with jazz and rock
and roll lurking in the background and art and behavior analysis sharing
the foreground.
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