ABA International Fellows
Edward K. Morris
Dr. Edward K. Morris's extensive scholarship on the history and philosophy of behavior analysis has contributed significantly to our understanding of the place of behavior analysis in the broader context of the behavioral sciences. Author or co-author of more than 60 articles and chapters in a wide array of journals and books, Dr. Morris has consistently provided incisive analyses on topics ranging from the conceptual relations between inter-behavioral psychology and behavior analysis through to the experimental analysis of social transmission of superstitious behavior in preschool children. In a discipline that has paid scant formal attention to its own history, Dr. Morris has led the way in placing the unique perspectives of behavior analysis in the context of the broader behaviorist movement, with special attention to the works of Skinner, Watson and Kantor. In a discipline that tends toward isolationism, Dr. Morris has consistently sought avenues of rapprochement. Dr. Morris’s scholarly record is matched by an extraordinary range of service to the discipline. He has served on editorial boards of seven journals and as editor of three of them, including The Behavior Analyst. Dr Morris is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (President of Division 25 1995-1996), and a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society. He has served as President of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Division 25 of the American Psychological Association, Kansas Association for Behavior Analysis, and is currently President-Elect of the University of Kansas chapter of Sigma Xi. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (President 1991-1992), and the Board of Trustees of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (1990-1996 and 1998-2000).