#168 Anthony Biglan: The Nurture Effect, Child Development, and Nurturing Societies
Dr. Anthony Biglan is a Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute and the Co-Director of the Promise Neighborhood Research Consortium. He has been conducting research on the development and prevention of child and adolescent problem behavior for the past several decades. His work has included studies of the risk and protective factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; high-risk sexual behavior; and antisocial behavior. He and colleagues at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences published a book summarizing the epidemiology, cost, etiology, prevention, and treatment of youth with multiple problems, called Helping Adolescents at Risk (2004). He is a former president of the Society for Prevention Research. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention. He’s also the author of The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World.
In this episode, we focus on some of the main topics of Dr. Biglan’s book, The Nurture Effect. We refer to the role of evolution in the behavioral sciences, and to aspects of the environment from families to schools and societies, and the negative effects of coercive environments. We also discuss specifically addictive behaviors involving tobacco, alcohol and drugs, risky sexual behavior, and anti-social behavior. In the latter part of the interview, we also talk about cultural evolution, psychological flexibility, and their relationship to the development of nurturing societies.
Time Links:
The role of evolution
The most important aspects of the environment
The influence coming from peers
Addictive and risky behavior
Anti-social behavior
Cultural evolution, and the importance of values
How to promote psychological flexibility
A nurturing society
Follow Dr. Biglan’s work!
Follow Dr. Biglan’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/2tPIbcv
Articles of Researchgate: https://bit.ly/2XxKX3p
Values To Action: https://bit.ly/2TfFi3J
Evolving a More Nurturing Capitalism: https://bit.ly/2tOIrs7
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science: https://bit.ly/2NODclz
Association for Behavior Analysis International: https://bit.ly/2mQqzHY
Society for Prevention Research: https://bit.ly/1CiEXuR
The Evolution Institute: https://bit.ly/1MmXlbv
Books:
The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World: https://amzn.to/2EoRwwt
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives: https://amzn.to/2NGekvV
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution: https://amzn.to/2ECm0LA