Every trainer has faced it: a behavior that should work on paper but falls apart in practice. You've done everything right: high rate of reinforcement, clear criteria, incompatible behaviors. And yet the problem persists or even worsens. This is where the constructional approach reveals something...
Is fear an action or an emotion? It's a question worth sitting with. Because how we answer it shapes everything about how we respond when a bird displays fear or aggression in training. Emotions as Contingency Descriptors Here's a reframe that might change how you think about this:...
If you’ve ever hit a wall in your training and thought, “Well, that didn’t go like I imagined,” welcome to the club. One of the things we talk about a lot at the Lab is how nonlinear analysis helps us see beyond behaviors we want...