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Published on: April 19, 2024
Joseph Vincent Brady (1922-2011)
William Hodos1, Lewis R Gollub, Nancy A Ator
1University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
Abstract:
Joseph Vincent Brady was born in New York City on March 28, 1922. Joe died on July 29, 2011. Joe was a pioneer in bringing the methods and philosophy of behavior analysis to the emerging field of behavioral pharmacology. In 1960, with David Rioch, Joe founded the nonprofit Institute for Behavioral Research (later the Institutes for Behavioral Resources, or IBR), which continues to the present day. True to his belief in the importance of the environmental determinants of behavior, when interviewed about his accomplishments in so many varied fields, Joe replied that in each area he had been "the beneficiary of a fortuitous environment."
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