The early reception of Science and Human Behavior in Brazil

Authors

  • Rodrigo Lopes Miranda
  • Bruno Angelo Strapasson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18761/shb037023dc

Keywords:

History of Psychology, History of Psychology – Brazil, translation

Abstract

This article historicizes the reception and circulation of Behavior Analysis in Brazil
concerning the translation of the book Science and Human Behavior (S&HB) into Brazilian
Portuguese. Published biographies and autobiographies, epistolary exchanges, and interviews
with participants of the aforementioned history were used as primary textual sources.
Secondary sources were also used. In the United States of America (USA), a nation with a long
tradition of experimental psychology, S&HB was developed as a teaching resource. However,
it became known and disseminated mainly for its comprehensive exposition of a science of
human behavior. In Brazil, its appropriation through translation, which occurred in the first
half of the 1960s, although it also had a didactic purpose, was influential in helping to consolidate
the importance of the experimental foundation of a science of behavior in the context
of creating the new Psychologist profession that was establishing itself in the country. S&HB
was a milestone in the development of Behavior Analysis in the USA and Brazil. However,
the process of appropriating the book in Brazil had its own configurations in the context of
our country.

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Published

2023-12-20

How to Cite

Miranda, R. L., & Strapasson, B. A. (2023). The early reception of Science and Human Behavior in Brazil. Perspectivas Em Análise Do Comportamento, 14(2), 036–047. https://doi.org/10.18761/shb037023dc

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2023): v. 14 n. 2 (2023) & Special Issue: Science and Human Behavior at Seventy

Section

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