Paolo Moderato
University IULM of Milan
Paolo Moderato is Professor of Psychology at the University IULM of Milan (Italy), where he chairs the Department of Behaviour, Consumers and Communication G. Fabris. He is President of IESCUM, the Italian Chapter of ABAI and EABA, where he directs the postgraduate program BACB approved in applied behavior analysis. He is past-president of the European Association for Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies. He has been the Italian editor of Acta Comportamentalia since the time of its foundation, has been associate editor for the Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, editor of the Psychology Series by McGraw-Hill Italia. At present he is the editor of the Series Behavior and Cognitive Practice by Francoangeli Publishing. His books include Pensieri, Parole e Comportamento, which is the first Italian systematic presentation and discussion of Skinnerian and post-Skinnerian analysis of verbal behavior (co-edited with Philip N. Chase and G. Presti); Human Interactions, a contextualistic behavior analytic handbook of general psychology; and Roots & Leaves, an anthology of papers on behavior analysis and therapy. Paolo has served the field of behavior analysis through his editorial work and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. In 2002, he received the SABA Award for the International Development of Behavior Analysis.