• The International Congresses provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of conceptual, theoretical and empirical issues related to behaviorism and its place in the sciences of behavior.
• The main focus of the Congress is equally on behaviorism as a philosophy of science, and the general empirically based issues in the sciences of behavior.
• Contributions from all scholarly perspectives, whether or not favorable to behaviorism are equally welcome, the quality of scholarship being the only criterion for acceptance.

Overpopulation, the impoverishment and pollution of the environment, and even the possibility of a nuclear war are often dismissed as matters of a fairly distant future.

In spite of their privileges, many are bored, listless, or depressed. They are not enjoying their lives. They do not like what they are doing; they are not doing what they like to do. In a word, they are unhappy.

Something like the current life style in the West is what most of the world look forward to as something to be enjoyed when they have solved the other problems.

1. Most of what they produce does not directly reinforce their behavior. 【労働が付加的随伴性により強化されることにより、行動内在的強化の喜びが欠落。】
2. Those who are helped by others when they could help themselves. 【サービス過剰、機械化、自動化が進む中で、主体的自立的に行動し強化される機会が奪われてしまった。】
3. They avoid the cost of exploring new contingencies.【マニュアルやガイドブック、助言などに頼るあまり、自分で創造、探索、開拓する喜びが奪われてしまった。】
4. The personal consequences that "justify" the rules or laws are indirect and usually long deferred. 【ルール、法律、道徳などに従うことにより直後的に強化される機会が奪われ、それぞれの行動の本来の意義が分からなくなってしまった。】
5. The only behaviors reinforced are looking, listening, and watching.【体を動かして直接体験するよりも、音楽を聴いたり映像を眺めて楽しむといったレスポンデント的な行動が大半を占めるようになった。】