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Effective Dissemination Requires Effective Talk: a Comparison of Behavior-Analytic Journals
James W Diller1, Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault1, Alana R Gallagher1
1Department of Psychology, Eastern Connecticut State University, 83 Windham Street, Willimantic, CT 06226 USA.
Abstract:
We explored language used in three behavior-analytic journals (the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA), the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB), and Behavior Analysis in Practice (BAP)) to evaluate differences in factors related to the ease of comprehension. Using a linguistic analysis tool, we compared the first three paragraphs of the introductions of research articles in ten issues of each of the journals. JEAB was found to use language that was less concrete, meaningful, and imageable than the two applied journals. Implications for the field are discussed.
