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Behavior Bitches

The Behavioral Lens of Psychopaths with Presley Wanner (Part 2)

Behavior Bitches

Study Notes ABA, LLC

Social Sciences, Science

51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for round two as Presley dives even deeper into the dark and twisted world of Jeffrey Dahmer—but this time, through the behavior analytic lens you didn’t know you needed. In Part 2, we dissect Dahmer’s behavior chain step by step, breaking down the environmental variables, reinforcement histories, and learned behaviors that shaped one of the most infamous serial killers in history. It’s true crime meets ABA, and it’s as fascinating as it is disturbing. Tune in as we explore how behavior doesn’t happen in a vacuum—and why understanding the “why” behind even the darkest actions matters.

Behavior Concepts Covered:

Behavior Chain

Learning History

Antecedent

Establishing Operation

Motivating Operation

Conditioned Reinforcement

Stimulus Generalization

Extinction

Private Events


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CrimeandBehavior.com

Crime & Behavior Analysis Academy

ABAI Special Interest Group

LinkedIn

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's behavior, bitches.

0:05.2

Okay, so now I, yeah, I know when we spoke originally, you were telling me about like this,

0:11.1

was that your thesis that you did on Dahmer or what was it?

0:14.4

That was actually just a little funzies project I did for a presentation.

0:19.7

Okay, so, and I was like, can you send it over? So you sent

0:22.6

this project over. And actually, if I have your permission, while we talk about some of it,

0:27.5

I want to know if like when we put the video up, if there's like a few slides that they could see

0:30.9

with your permission, because it's just some of it's easier to see visually. I love how you put

0:36.4

this Jeffrey Dahmer, this behavior analytic conceptualization up here. It's a beautiful for anyone, if you're listening

0:43.2

in the car, I'll try to do my best to explain it, but you also will have this available on YouTube.

0:47.5

I love how you put it into the beautiful primary unit of analysis that we use in ABA, the ABC.

0:53.5

Also, I just want to say, like,

0:54.8

Dommer's a good-looking guy. Yeah, he very much was. I mean, and he's on trend. These

1:00.1

glasses have come back in style. So he could definitely fit in Brooklyn, uh, 20, 25. Yeah. So, okay, so let's,

1:08.6

let's take a look at what you did here. So I just, I want to take a little bit and kind of take this episode to doing a little bit

1:14.5

of a case study, a mini case study on Dahmer himself.

1:19.4

Today's behavior concepts covered are behavior chain, learning history, antecedent, establishing

1:27.4

operation, motivating operation, conditioned reinforcement,

1:33.4

stimulus generalization, extinction, and private events. I think it's something cool also for

1:44.1

if anyone is studying for the exam, okay, this is like,

1:47.1

I'm going to preface this for a few people. If you're studying for the exam, this is a great

1:51.8

example of how we look at all these, well, in the three-term contingency of the ABC,

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