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A Behavior-Analytic View of Sexuality, Transsexuality, Homosexuality, and Heterosexuality

Behavior and Social Issues

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Title A Behavior-Analytic View of Sexuality, Transsexuality, Homosexuality, and Heterosexuality
 
Creator Malott, Richard W.
 
Subject behavior analysis, sex, transsexual, homosexual, heterosexual
 
Description This article presents a behavior-analytic view suggesting that biological factors, whether genetic or otherwise, have little to do with our preference for same-gender or opposite-gender sexual stimulation. This view stresses the importance of behavioral history and current behavioral contingencies in understanding the causes of an individual’ s behavior and values. This view states that genetic and other biological factors are crucial in determining the behavioral processes that interact with our behavioral history and current behavioral contingencies; however biological factors have little direct effect on differences among human beings in their behavior and values. In addition, this behavior-analytic view suggests that the particular forms of behavior are arbitrary; whatever the human behavior with which we are concerned, the contingencies of reinforcement and punishment determine its particular forms.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Date 1996-12-16
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/288
10.5210/bsi.v6i2.288
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 6, No. 2 (Fall 1996)
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/288/2140