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| Presidential Address: Found in Translation |
| Saturday, May 24, 2025 |
| 6:00 PM–6:50 PM |
| Marriott Marquis, M2 Level, Marquis Salon 1-5 |
| Instruction Level: Intermediate |
| Chair: Kent Johnson (Morningside Academy) |
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| Presidential Address: Found in Translation |
| Abstract: The emergence and successful development of behavior analytic science and practice began with both being tightly integrated. However, as the field matured and the tremendous value of applied behavior analytic assessments and interventions was recognized, more specialization was required. Increasing specialization within behavior analysis has led to the development of distinctive cultures, institutions, and organizations that separate experimental and applied research and create gaps between research and practice. In contrast, a unifying force can be “found in translation.” Translational research bridges the differences between these cultures. I will briefly discuss several stories of successful translational research (e.g., stimulus relations, behavioral approaches to substance abuse, resurgence). These examples illustrate the historic and contemporary interplay between science and practice in which applied problems drive laboratory research questions and laboratory findings lead to new applied research directions. The ultimate effect is to provide improved applications and theoretical advances. These examples also show the continuing interdependence between behavior science and practice—indeed behavior analysts at all levels of training are in many ways scientist-practitioners. I will argue that this interdependence is largely responsible for many of the advances that have made behavior analysis so successful. For our field to continue to thrive, future behavior analysts will need a broad understanding of the field that includes both the principles and methods of behavior science as well as applications and technology. |
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| MARK GALIZIO (University of North Carolina Wilmington) |
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 Dr. Mark Galizio earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and currently serves as professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, having previously served as department chair (2004–2011). Dr. Galizio’s highly productive research career includes more than 80 published articles and chapters, a textbook now in its seventh edition, an edited book, more than $1 million in grants, service as associate editor and editorial board member of multiple prominent behavior analytic journals, and extensive leadership service to the field (e.g., president of APA Division 25, NIH Study Section on Biobehavioral Regulation, Learning, and Ethology). His contributions have included empirical, conceptual, and methodological advances across an impressive range of specialties within the experimental analysis of behavior, including rule-governed behavior, aversive control, complex stimulus control, behavioral pharmacology, and learning and remembering. His work exemplifies the best of the benefits of translational research, taking a thoroughly behavior analytic approach to issues of broader interest in the behavioral, social, and biological sciences, for which he has been recognized as a Fellow in four different divisions of APA. Dr. Galizio’s teaching and mentorship are also noteworthy, and have resulted in numerous awards and recognitions. |
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