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Behaviorology is a "verbal community that results from a scientific effort pursued in common."[1] The members of that community call themselves "behaviorologists".[2] "Behaviorologists discover, interpret, and gain control of the environmental variables that functionally determine the behaviors of individual organisms."[3]

Behaviorologists have organized several associations, including those listed below.

References
  1. ↑ Ernest A. Vargas, in Origins and Components of Behaviorology (Stephen F. Ledoux; 2002; New York: ABCs), page 36.
  2. ↑ Stephen F. Ledoux, "Defining Natural Sciences," Behaviorology Today, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 2002, page 36.
  3. ↑ Lawrence E. Fraley, General Behaviorology: The Natural Science of Human Behavior (2008; New York: ABCs) page 36.