• Applied Behavior Analysis is a specialty that has been evolving since the mid-1960s as an area of extensive basic and applied research and as a profession of behavior change. Applied Behavior Analysis can be differentiated from other areas in psychology in that it is focused on analyzing and modifying behavior using well-established principles of learning that stress environmental variables that can be manipulated directly to improve performance.
  • FSU has been a leader in the generation of behavior analysis research and has achieved “Top 50” status in the world in both author's published and educational institutions represented. The Florida Panhandle has become a center of professional behavior analysis activity in the past fifteen years with over a dozen PhDs with specialty training in behavior analysis on the faculty of FSU or in active professional behavior analysis practice in the community.