1. How to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
Or
I’ll Stop
Procrastinating.
When I get around to
it.
Preliminary Version
Fall 2006
Richard W. Malott
Holly Harrison
Plus Other Cool Ways to Succeed in School and Life
Using Behavior Analysis to Get Your Act Together
3. Hey, kids, turn this book over,
so the back cover is on top,
and leave it on your book when
Hey, kids, turn this desk over,
so the back cover is on top,
Mom and Dad come to visit.
and leave it on your all in big
Otherwise, we’re desk when
trouble. Works well to visit.
Mom and Dad come for that
Otherwise, we’re allwho’s
intellectual friend in big
trouble.riding your butt, too.
always Works well for that
intellectual friend who’s
always riding your butt, too.
Out of 20 students, 18 said they like the front cover; and one even
said her roommate picked it up and started reading it (not too
common among textbooks). But two said they didn’t like it. And we
mean to please; hence, the alternative cover.
4. A Behavioranalytic Treatise
on Auto-regulation
in Homosapiens
Richard W. Malott, Ph.D.
Holly Harrison, M.A.
Department of Psychology
Western Michigan University
