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Publications and Presentations
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An Interbehavioral Science of Sociocultural Relations as Referential Events
This paper examines how a Kantorian conceptualization of referential events can be applied to understanding sociocultural phenomena.
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Fleming, W., Thomas, J., Abdala, M., & Filho, H. B. N. (2025). An interbehavioral science of sociocultural relations as referential events. Acta Comportamentalia, 33(2), 253–274. https://doi.org/10.32870/ac.v33i2.88581
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Does Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Interbehavioral Experimentation Need to be More Molar?
This presentation asked the question, "Is Kantor's psychological field equation enough to describe matching, other forms of molar organization, or focal relations of IRAP research?" We think not.
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Fleming, W. (2025, May). Does relational frame theory (RFT) and interbehavioral experimentation need to be more molar? Paper presented at the Annual Convention for the Association of Behavior Analysis International, Washington, DC.
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Interbehavioral Alternatives to Metacontingency Models, Pts. 1 & 2
These posters presented two alternative conceptualizations of sociocultural relations: one based on Kantorian interbehaviorism and one based on orientationalism.
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Thomas, J., Fleming, W., Abdala, M., Filho, H. B. N., & Hayes, L. J. (2024, October). Interbehavioral alternatives to metacontingency models, pt. 1: Sociocultural relations as referential events. Poster presented at the Theory and Philosophy Conference for the Association of Behavior Analysis International, Chicago, Il.
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Fleming, W. (2024, October). Interbehavioral alternatives to metacontingency models, pt. 2: Sociocultural relations as shared orientations. Poster presented at the Theory and Philosophy Conference for the Association of Behavior Analysis International, Chicago, Il.
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Absurd Camusian Thoughts on Contextual Behavior Science
This paper used similarities between Camusian absurdism and contextual behavioral science to analyze potential hegemonic scientific practices and to advocate for data collection on how community values change in relation to such practices.
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Fleming, W., & Hayes, L. J. (2024). Absurd Camusian thoughts on contextual behavioral science. Behavior & Philosophy, 52(1), 10-27. https://behavior.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/BP-V52-2-Fleming-Hayes.pdf
Figure 1. Pivoting away from the behavior stream as a series of psychological events to interacting, discontinuous patterns.