Health, Sport & Fitness

A Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavior Analysis:  International
Clip art illustrating the top of an Ionian column, representing the academic nature of the HSF special interest group. We are primarily comprised of university professors and students, as well as professionals working in private and government sectors.A dumbbell with "HSF-SIG" written beneath it has become the unofficial logo of the Health, Sport, and Ffitness speciall interest group of the Association for Behavior Analysis. The logo appears at the top right of each of the SIG's web pages.

HSF-SIG Home

The Health, Sport, and Fitness (HSF) special interest group (SIG) supports research in and application of behavior analysis in health, sport, and fitness.

We share a commitment to applying elementary principles of behavior to promote health, sport and fitness, and to using single-subject design whenever feasible to accurately identify causal influences on the behavior of individuals.  Often enough, we also apply these principles to our own lives to accelerate healthy behaviors, develop skills in our favorite sports or fitness activities, and to gain access to performance-related reinforcers.  The group provides opportunities for networking, collaboration, and collegial support through an electronic mailing list, a Yahoo! group, and an electronic newsletter.  It is not necessary to be a member of ABA in order to join.

Michael A. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., BCBA

Chair/Treasurer HSF-SIG of ABA

Psychology Department

Wheeling Jesuit University

316 Washington Avenue

Wheeling, WV  26003

To contact us:

Phone: 304-243-4429

Fax: 304-243-4441

E-mail: mkirkpatrick@wju.edu

We are grateful to Wheeling Jesuit University for hosting the HSF SIG pages.
The logo for Wheeling Jesuit University, hyperlinked to the university's homepage.A hurdles runner illustrates our interest in organized individual and group sport activities.

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