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JEAB Book Reviews

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These reviews were published between 1997 and the present time:

Review of the book Sniffy the Virtual Rat Pro Version 2.0.
James J. Jakubow. 2007 March 87(2): Pp. 317-323.

Cui bono? A review of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon by David Dennett.
Howard Rachlin. 2007 January: 87(1): Pp. 143-149.

Herbert Spencer’s contributions to behavior analysis: A retrospective review of Principles of Psychology.
Julian C. Leslie. 2006 July; 86(1): 123-129.

Naming our concerns about neuroscience: A review of Bennett and Hacker’s Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience
D W Schaal 2005 November; 85(3): 683-692.

Behaviorism makes its debut: A review of Lattal and Chase’s Behavior Theory and Philosophy
G E Zuriff 2005 May; 83(3): 315-322.

The accidental behaviorist: A review of The New Behaviorism by John Staddon.
W M Baum 2004 July; 82(1): 73-78.

Data in search of a principle: A review of Relational Frame Theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition.
D C Palmer 2004 March; 81(2): 189-204.

Rational thought and rational behavior: A review of Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox.
H Rachlin 2003 May; 79(3): 409-412.

You can lead an Ape to a tool but...: A review of Povinelli’s Folk Physics for Apes: The Chimpanzee’s Theory of How the World Works.
A Machado and F Silva 2003 March; 79(2): 267-286.

Evolution, behavior pinciples, and developmental systems: A review of Gottlieb’s Synthesizing Nature-nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior.
S Schneider 2003 January; 79(1): 137-152.

Psychological essentialism: A review of E. Margolis and S. Laurence (Eds.), Concepts: Core Readings.
D Palmer 2002 November; 78(3): 597-607.

The function, mechanism, and evolution of learning: A review of Sara J. Shettleworth’s Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior.
M Zeiler 2002 September; 78(2)): 225-235.

From patterns to prosperity: A review of Rachlin’s The Science of Self-control.
E Fantino and S Stolarz-Fantino 2002 July; 78(1): 117-125.

Universal Plotkinism: A review of Henry Plotkin’s Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge
C Wynne 2001 November; 76(3): 351-361.

Review of The War between Mentalism and Behaviorism: On the Accessibility of Mental Processes by William R. Utall.
H Reese 2001 July; 76(1): 115-130.

The philosophical terrain of behavior analysis: A review of B. A. Thyer (Ed.), The Philosophical Legacy of Behaviorism.
P A Lamal 2000 September; 74(2): 255-264.

Philosophical behaviorism: A review of Things that happen because they should: A Teleological Approach to Action, by Rowland Stout.
H Rachlin 1999 September; 72(2): 273-277.

The man who listens to behavior: Folk wisdom and behavior analysis from a real Horse Whisperer.
V Farmer-Dougan and J Dougan 1999 July; 72(1): 139-149.

Pragmatism, science, and society: A review of Richard Rorty’s Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1.
S Leigland 1999 May; 71(3): 483-500.

Operants were never “emitted,’ feeling is doing, and learning takes only one trial: A review Of B. F. Skinner’s Recent Issues in the Analysis of Behavior.
J Malone 1999 January; 71(1): 115-120.

A century of effect: Legacies of E. L. Thorndike’s Animal Intelligence Monograph.
K A Lattal 1998 November; 70(3): 325-336.

Varieties of contrast: A review of Incentive Relativity. by Charles F. Flaherty.
B Williams 1997 July; 68(1): 133-141.


Variations and Selections: An Anthology of Reviews from JEAB was published in 1996, containing over 60 book reviews that had appeared in the journal up to that time, along with introductions to the eleven topics under which they are presented. All these reviews are now available in the PDF format from the V & S site.


The following reviews appeared before the publication of V & S but were not included in that volume because of space limitations:

Reading and writing about research methods in behavior analysis: A personal account of a review of Johnston and Pennypacker’s Strategies and Tactics of Behavioral Research (2nd ed.) and others.
J G Osbourne 1995 September; 64(2): 247-255.

The experimental analysis of reasoning: A review of Gilovich’s How We Know What Isn’t So.
S Stolarz-Fantino and E Fantino 1995 July; 64(1): 111-116.

Interpreting cognitive phenomena: Review of Donahoe and Palmer’s Learning and Complex Behavior.
R L Shull 1995 May; 63(3): 347-358.

Gallistel’s The organization of learning: This is not creation science
J D Dougan 1994 November; 62(3): 435-444.

The LAD was a lady, or the mother of all language learning: A review of Moerk’s First Language: Taught and Learned.
K Salzinger 1994 September; 62(2): 323-329.

Behavior analysis and social psychology: A review of Lana’s Assumptions of Social Psychology.
B Guerin 1992 November; 58(3): 589-604.

Nature = f(nurture): A review of Oyama’s The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution.
B D Midgley and E K Morris 1992 July; 58(1): 229-240.

Cultural contingencies: A review of Marvin Harris’s Cannibals and Kings.
E Vargas 1985 May; 43(3): 419-428.

On the further maturing of behavior analysis: A review of Commons, Herrnstein, and Rachlin’s Matching and Maximizing Accounts.
H L Miller, Jr. 1984 July; 42(1): 159-164.

On resisting extinction: A review of Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth
J A Nevin 1982 November; 38(3): 349-353.

The demise of behaviorism—exaggerated rumor? A review of MacKenzie’s Behaviourism and the Limits of Scientific Method
G E Zuriff 1979 July; 32(1): 129-136.

Is problem-solving language? [A review of Premack’s Intelligence in Apes and Man.]
H S Terrace 1979 January; 31(1): 161-175.

Are schedules of reinforcement necessary? A review of W. N. Schoenfeld and B. K. Cole’s Stimulus schedules: the t-τ systems.
J R Platt. 1974 March; 21(2): 383-388.

Varied approaches to aversion. A review of Aversive Conditioning and Learning edited by F. Robert Brush.
P N Hineline 1973 May; 19(3): 531-540.

Strategy in studies of attention: A commentary on D. I. Mostofsky’s Attention: Contemporary Theory and Analysis.
B A Ray 1972 March; 17(2): 293-297

Aversive control: A review of B. A. Campbell and R. M. Church’s Punishment and Aversive Behavior.
R C Bolles 1971 September; 16(2): 283-288.

Information on conditioned reinforcement: A review of Conditioned Reinforcement, edited by Derek P. Hendry.
L R Gollub 1970 November; 14(3): 361-372.


Some articles on book reviews and reviewing in JEAB.

On attending at the “having” of reviews
A. Charles Catania 1976 November; 26(3): 317-320.

Editorial: Conceivable book reviews
A. Charles Catania 1984 September; 42(2): 165-169.

Selections, intentions, intuitions, and chaos: Some capsule reviews.
A. Charles Catania 1989 July; 52(1): 77-79.

Contingent reviews (Editorial)
A. Charles Catania 1991 November; 56(3): 591-598.

Preface. [An editorial written upon the publication of Variations and Selections: An Anthology of Reviews in JEAB.]
Richard L. Shull 1996 May; 65(3): 661.

Postscript to An Anthology of Reviews
A. Charles Catania and Philip N. Hineline 1996 May; 65(3): 663-666.


Mining our archives.

Because all back issues of both JEAB and JABA have been scanned and served by the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, we can present several new pages that are largely based upon articles that were not previously available in an electronic format.


Revised February 20 2008 (vgl)