College of Charleston Honors College student Annie Galizio was presenting a research poster at a conference for behavioral psychologists when she heard Dr. Aubrey Daniels speak. She was so inspired, she approached Dr. Daniels and convinced him to come to the College of Charleston.

“He was an incredibly compelling speaker with insightful ideas into how behavioral principles can be applied in everyday life, specifically in the workplace,” explains Galizio, a psychology major and William Aiken Fellow.

Dr. Daniels will speak at the College on November 21, 2013 at 3 p.m. in the Wells Fargo Auditorium in the Beatty Center (5 Liberty St.). His lecture, which is free and open to the public, is entitled “A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing.”

“Anyone who wishes their workplace ran more smoothly can learn from Dr. Daniels,” Galizio says. “Hearing Dr. Daniels speak is a great way to learn about reinforcement and how it works in the real world and how to use it in your own lives.”

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“We love to see our students take initiative,” says Trisha Folds-Bennett, dean of the Honors College. “A couple years ago, with the leadership of members of our Honors Advisory Board, a Speaker’s Fund was established to facilitate bringing nationally known speakers to campus. I’m so happy to see that the interests of one of our students will be supported by that fund.”

Daniels’ lecture will focus on how organizations and individuals can apply principles of behavioral science to accelerate performance. Behavior analysts have profound knowledge that offers effective and efficient solutions to many of the world’s most pressing problems. Situations where behavior analysis has been systematically applied have led to, in many cases, spectacular results. Yet, the science is relatively unknown and often misunderstood by the general population.

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When Galizio met Dr. Daniels, she was presenting her research, which focuses on transitive inference, for example, the ability to make inferences about stimuli based on the property of transitivity – if A>B and B>C, then A>C – and how we come to make these decisions.

The lecture is sponsored by the Honors College and the William Aiken Fellows Society.

For more information, contact Chris Bailey at aikenfellow@cofc.edu.