• DOI:10.1007/s40617-018-0222-3
Corpus ID: 207502667

Emotional Overtones of Behavior Analysis Terms in English and Five Other Languages

@article{Critchfield2018EmotionalOO,
  title={Emotional Overtones of Behavior Analysis Terms in English and Five Other Languages},
  author={T. Critchfield and Karla J. Doepke},
  journal={Behavior Analysis in Practice},
  year={2018},
  volume={11},
  pages={97-105}
}

• T. Critchfield, Karla J. Doepke
• Published 2018
• Psychology, Medicine
• Behavior Analysis in Practice

It has been suggested that the language of behavior analysis is not always consumer-friendly, but the very limited empirical support for this claim comes from examining jargon in English. We consulted publicly available data sets to shed light on one specific aspect of the jargon problem: how non-English speakers may react emotionally to the technical vocabulary of behavior analysis. Previous research has suggested that English speakers may experience English technical terms as unpleasant. Here… Expand

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