In a 1982 address, B. F. Skinner asked a question that is still relevant today: Why are we not acting to save the world? Watching any news station will reveal a number of current global and social issues that our world is facing including, but not limited to, poverty, genocide, and climate change. Although there have been attempts to resolve these issues, these problems continue to cost lives and threaten the planet. These human-created problems are complex in terms of influencing factors and the human behavior involved and, therefore, require an objective, systematic approach. Behavior analysis is a science that studies environmental variables influencing human behavior, which allows for the prediction and creation of interventions that change behavior in a socially significant way. The present article uses the Syrian refugee crisis to illustrate how the principles of behavior analysis, specifically relational frame theory, Glenn’s (2004, “Individual Behavior, Culture, and Social Change,” The Behavior Analyst, 27, 133–151) analysis of macrobehavior and metacontingencies, and Goldiamond’s nonlinear analysis (1974, “Toward a Constructional Approach to Social Problems: Ethical and Constitutional Issues Raised by Applied Behavior Analysis,” Behaviorism, 2, 1–84), could be used to address global and social issues. The authors propose a model that may be used to analyze other social or global issues using behavior-analytic principles. This article is intended to demonstrate the breadth of potential applications of behavior-analytic principles and to serve as a call to action to the field to research interventions to address current social and global issues.

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解决社会和全球问题：通过行为分析视角看待叙利亚难民危机

在 1982 年的一次演讲中，BF Skinner 提出了一个今天仍然相关的问题：为什么我们不采取行动拯救世界？观看任何新闻台都会揭示我们世界面临的许多当前的全球和社会问题，包括但不限于贫困、种族灭绝和气候变化。尽管已尝试解决这些问题，但这些问题仍在继续以生命为代价并威胁着地球。这些人为问题在影响因素和所涉及的人类行为方面是复杂的，因此需要一种客观、系统的方法。行为分析是一门研究影响人类行为的环境变量的科学，它允许预测和创建以具有社会意义的方式改变行为的干预措施。本文使用叙利亚难民危机来说明行为分析的原则，特别是关系框架理论，Glenn's (2004, “Individual Behavior, Culture, and Social Change,”The Behavior Analyst, 27, 133–151) 对宏观行为的分析和元偶然性，以及 Goldiamond 的非线性分析（1974 年，“Toward a Constructional Approach to Social Problems: Ethical andConstitutional Issues Raised by Applied Behavior Analysis”，Behaviorism, 2, 1-84），可用于解决全球和社会问题。作者提出了一个模型，该模型可用于使用行为分析原理来分析其他社会或全球问题。