Behavioral Psychology

Behaviorism is a theory of learning that states all behaviors are learned through conditioned interaction with the environment.

Emerging during the mid-20th century, Wolpe's work aligned with the rise of behaviorism in psychology and represented a shift from psychoanalysis.

The theory is still somewhat controversial within behavioral psychology, however.

ACT has been called a "commonly used treatment with empirical support" within the APA-recognized specialty of behavioral and cognitive psychology.

Considered one of the justice theories, equity theory was first developed in the 1960s by John Stacey Adams, a workplace and behavioral psychologist, who asserted that employees seek to maintain equity between the inputs that they bring to a job and the outcomes that they receive from it against the perceived inputs and outcomes of others.

Jacob Robert "J.R." Kantor (August 8, 1888, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1984, Chicago, Illinois) was a prominent American psychologist who pioneered a naturalistic system in psychology called interbehavioral psychology or interbehaviorism.