Lessons worth repeating: Sidman's Tactics of Scientific Research

Murray Sidman's (1960) Tactics of Scientific Research: Evaluating Experimental Data in Psychology just celebrated its sixtieth anniversary. It is without doubt one of the most influential books in the history of Behavior Analysis. This review outlines the rationales for, and details of, methods for the investigation of the behavior of individual subjects that Sidman presented. Many of his observations and recommendations are as timely as ever, maybe even more so, given the reproducibility crisis and one of its major origins.

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Murray Sidman's book Tactics of Scientific Research is one of the most influential in the history of Behavior Analysis, presenting methods for investigating individual subject behavior. His observations and recommendations remain relevant and possibly even more important in light of the reproducibility crisis.