Everyone, thanks for joining me in this episode of behavioral observations. This is the 14th installment of the Inside Jaba series, and Dr. John Barrero, Java's editor-in-chief, and I are joined by Dr. Brett Jolino and Derek Reed, and we discuss a novel study that they and their colleagues conducted on the University of Kansas campus. The study, which culminated

in the paper, tobacco-free policy reduces combustible tobacco byproduct, shows how a group of

behavior analysts teamed up with university policymakers to craft and evaluate a campus-wide

tobacco-free initiative. Now, I know what some of you might be thinking.

On the one hand, policy evaluation or policy development may sound like a dry topic.

But if you step back and think about this for a minute, this is really a cool example of how

we can use behavior analytic concepts and principles to solve socially relevant problems

and basically to solve them at scale, which we don't get to do a lot in our work.

So, you know, another way to perhaps think about it is, like, how many times have you seen a well-intended policy get derailed because people haven't thought through the unintended consequences because they didn't have sufficient background in just what

what drives behavior, what drives human behavioral patterns. So to my mind, this piece of

research is really exciting and promising. There's a lot of cool things we get into in this

particular conversation. And there's a lot of things that, even though this was

written up and published in Java, there's a lot of things that couldn't get into the paper itself.

So this conversation represents an opportunity to really tell the complete story behind this project.

And if you care about dissemination, if you care about, again,

using behavior analysis to solve problems at scale, this is the podcast for you. And whether or not

you care about tobacco-free campuses or not, think of this as a template or an example. So I really

hope you enjoyed the conversation as much as I did.

As all Inside Java series shows, are this one's available for CEUs.

So if you're interested in learning more about that, go to behavioral observations.com forward slash get CEOs.

We'll also have a list of links in the show notes, and you can check out the

heat map. If you don't know what the heat map is, we talk about it in the show. I'll have a

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