Anthony Biglan
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@abiglan is a Senior Scientist at @OregonResearch. His new book, Rebooting Capitalism is a road map to evolving a society that works for everyone.
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We cannot treat our way out of the obesity epidemic Original
A spate of recent reports on obesity shows that the U.S. continues its extraordinary 40-year rise in obesity. The reporting focuses on its genetic roots and the need for more treatment. In a segment on 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl interviewed Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford who stated that the number one cause of obesity is genetics. Similarly, New York Times reporter Gina Kolata summarized the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) new guide in a podcast episode, which also notes genes as part of the problem.
We're studying everything but human behavior to combat climate change
Amy Impson is a behavioral scientist with 24 years’ experience helping hundreds of people change their behavior. She lives in Louisiana, where unprecedented rainfall and rising sea levels have repeatedly harmed her state. She is one of thousands of skilled behavioral practitioners who could be put to work helping every community mobilize to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Sadly, there is no funding to support such large-scale but vital efforts.
How and Why the Food Industry Makes Americans Sick
Print This Post My son Michael is addicted to sugar. About three years ago he announced on Facebook that he would not be eating anything that had added sugar–no cookies, cakes, ice cream, even my coleslaw to which I always add a bit of sugar. He immediately lost 15 pounds. Mike was not terribly overweight; about 210 at 6 foot 1 inch.
How Cigarette Marketing Killed 20 Million People
All of my work over the past three years had come down to this moment. David Bernick, the wiry little high-paid lawyer for Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, was cross-examining me with the air of a skilled hunter about to eviscerate his prey. Others told me he was nasty and clever, that his law firm billed $1,000 an hour for his time, and that he had won many high-profile cases. I, on the other hand, had never even testified in federal court. He was going to skewer me like a piece of meat.
The Cultural Evolution of Social Pathologies: Introduction to a Series of Essays by Anthony Biglan
One of the hardest lessons to learn about evolution is that it doesn’t make everything nice. It often results in outcomes that benefit some individuals at the expense of other individuals, some groups at the expense of other groups, or short-term benefits that are detrimental to everyone over the long term. It’s not as if evolution never results in outcomes that we would regard as benign and sustainable in human terms. It’s just that the appropriate selection pressures are required.
Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change
Abstract Humans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic science of intentional change centered on evolution; second, to provide examples of intentional behavioral and cultural change from the applied behavioral sciences, which are largely unknown to the basic sciences community.
A public health framework for the regulation of marketing
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Evolving a More Nurturing Society to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences
To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription. Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. AbstractThis article presents a framework for evolving a society that nurtures the health and well-being of its population. We review evidence that adverse social conditions, including poverty, conflict, discrimination, and other forms of social rejection, contribute immensely to our most ubiquitous psychological, behavioral, and health problems.
Evolving a More Nurturing Capitalism: A New Powell Memo
Is it possible that evolutionary theory can explain how the U.S. came to have the highest levels of child poverty and economic inequality of any developed nation? I think it can. It also can help us evolve a more nurturing form of capitalism, one in which people are more caring and productive, and they place greater value on the wellbeing of every member of society. We certainly have room for improvement.
Opinion | Where Terrorism Research Goes Wrong
Gray Matter March 6, 2015 TERRORISM is increasing. According to the Global Terrorism Database at the University of Maryland, groups connected with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State committed close to 200 attacks per year between 2007 and 2010, a number that grew by more than 200 percent, to about 600 attacks, in 2013. Since 9/11, the study of terrorism has also increased. Now, you might think that more study would lead to more effective antiterrorism policies and thus to less terrorism.
Boys Become Criminals by Talking About It First
"So what would you do if your girlfriend got pregnant? Shoot her?”“No, punch her in the stomach, real hard.” This conversation occurred in an observation room at Oregon Social Learning Center. Tom Dishion and his colleagues were trying to learn more about why some kids become delinquent. He and many other behavioral scientists knew that most adolescents who get in trouble do so with other adolescents. Delinquency is a group enterprise. But Dishion took the research a step further.
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