William M. Baum is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and a Research Associate at the University of California, Davis. He has published over one hundred journal articles and has over twenty years’ teaching experience at universities including Harvard and the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include choice, cultural evolution, behavioral processes, and the philosophy of behavior.

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xiPart I Multiscale Behavior Analysis 11 The Correlation-Based Law of Effect 32 Quantitative Prediction and Molar Description of the Environment 243 The Trouble With Time 364 From Molecular to Molar: A Paradigm Shift in Behavior Analysis 485 The Molar View of Behavior and Its Usefulness in Behavior Analysis 736 Molar and Molecular Views of Choice 787 Rethinking Reinforcement: Allocation, Induction, and Contingency 918 Driven by Consequences: The Multiscale Molar View of Choice 1209 Reinforcement 13310 Avoidance, Induction, and the Illusion of Reinforcement 13911 Multiscale Behavior Analysis and Molar Behaviorism: An Overview 17112 Behavior, Process, and Scale 195Part II Molar Behaviorism 20313 Radical Behaviorism and the Concept of Agency 20514 Commentary on Foxall, "Intentional Behaviorism" 22315 Behaviorism, Private Events, and the Molar View of Behavior 22916 Ontology for Behavior Analysis: Not Realism, Classes, or Objects, but Individuals and Processes 24817 Berkeley, Realism, and Dualism 26018 What is Suicide? 26419 Relativity in Hearing and Stimulus Discrimination 266Part III Culture and Evolution 27320 Rules, Culture, and Fitness 27521 Being Concrete about Culture and Cultural Evolution 29522 Behavior Analysis, Darwinian Evolutionary Processes, and the Diversity of Human Behavior 318References 345Index 367

William M. Baum is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and a Research Associate at the University of California, Davis. He has published over one hundred journal articles and has over twenty years’ teaching experience at universities including Harvard and the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include choice, cultural evolution, behavioral processes, and the philosophy of behavior.

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xiPart I Multiscale Behavior Analysis 11 The Correlation-Based Law of Effect 32 Quantitative Prediction and Molar Description of the Environment 243 The Trouble With Time 364 From Molecular to Molar: A Paradigm Shift in Behavior Analysis 485 The Molar View of Behavior and Its Usefulness in Behavior Analysis 736 Molar and Molecular Views of Choice 787 Rethinking Reinforcement: Allocation, Induction, and Contingency 918 Driven by Consequences: The Multiscale Molar View of Choice 1209 Reinforcement 13310 Avoidance, Induction, and the Illusion of Reinforcement 13911 Multiscale Behavior Analysis and Molar Behaviorism: An Overview 17112 Behavior, Process, and Scale 195Part II Molar Behaviorism 20313 Radical Behaviorism and the Concept of Agency 20514 Commentary on Foxall, "Intentional Behaviorism" 22315 Behaviorism, Private Events, and the Molar View of Behavior 22916 Ontology for Behavior Analysis: Not Realism, Classes, or Objects, but Individuals and Processes 24817 Berkeley, Realism, and Dualism 26018 What is Suicide? 26419 Relativity in Hearing and Stimulus Discrimination 266Part III Culture and Evolution 27320 Rules, Culture, and Fitness 27521 Being Concrete about Culture and Cultural Evolution 29522 Behavior Analysis, Darwinian Evolutionary Processes, and the Diversity of Human Behavior 318References 345Index 367

William M. Baum is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire and a Research Associate at the University of California, Davis. He has published over one hundred journal articles and has over twenty years’ teaching experience at universities including Harvard and the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include choice, cultural evolution, behavioral processes, and the philosophy of behavior.

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xiPart I Multiscale Behavior Analysis 11 The Correlation-Based Law of Effect 32 Quantitative Prediction and Molar Description of the Environment 243 The Trouble With Time 364 From Molecular to Molar: A Paradigm Shift in Behavior Analysis 485 The Molar View of Behavior and Its Usefulness in Behavior Analysis 736 Molar and Molecular Views of Choice 787 Rethinking Reinforcement: Allocation, Induction, and Contingency 918 Driven by Consequences: The Multiscale Molar View of Choice 1209 Reinforcement 13310 Avoidance, Induction, and the Illusion of Reinforcement 13911 Multiscale Behavior Analysis and Molar Behaviorism: An Overview 17112 Behavior, Process, and Scale 195Part II Molar Behaviorism 20313 Radical Behaviorism and the Concept of Agency 20514 Commentary on Foxall, "Intentional Behaviorism" 22315 Behaviorism, Private Events, and the Molar View of Behavior 22916 Ontology for Behavior Analysis: Not Realism, Classes, or Objects, but Individuals and Processes 24817 Berkeley, Realism, and Dualism 26018 What is Suicide? 26419 Relativity in Hearing and Stimulus Discrimination 266Part III Culture and Evolution 27320 Rules, Culture, and Fitness 27521 Being Concrete about Culture and Cultural Evolution 29522 Behavior Analysis, Darwinian Evolutionary Processes, and the Diversity of Human Behavior 318References 345Index 367