Awards
- National Academies - 1946
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
About Sidney Bijou
Sidney William Bijou was one of the most influential scholars of behavior analysis and he worked at Indiana University with B.F. Skinner from 1946 to 1948. Born in Arlington, Maryland on November 12, 1908, Bijou earned his B.A. in business from the University of Florida in 1933, M.A. from Columbia University in 1936, and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1941. He was a psychologist at the Delaware State Hospital and Mental Hygiene Clinic (1937-1939) and a child psychology researcher at the Wayne County Training School, in addition to serving in the U.S. Air Force, before joining the faculty of IU for two years.
He later served as professor at the University of Washington for more than twenty years. A consultant with the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Child and Human Development, U.S. Office of Education, and others, Bijou applied his understanding and research on child behavior to clinical settings across the country. Bijou authored: Behavior Analysis of Child Development (with D.M. Baer) (1978); Child Development: The University Stage of Infancy (1965); Child Development: Readings in Experimental Analysis of Behavior (with E. Ribes-Inesta) (1965); Behavior Modification: Issues and Extensions (1972); Child Development: The Basic Stage of Early Childhood (with E. Rayek-Zaga) (1978).
He was founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. He received Career Research Scientist Award from the American Association of Intellectual and Development Disabilities, Distinguished Scientist Award from Arc of the United States, and was fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A Fulbright-Hays Fellow in 1976, Bijou was a fellow of the American Psychological Association, recipient of the G. Stanley Hall Award in developmental psychology, the Don Hake Award in basic and applied psychology, and the American Bar Association International Award. Bijou died June 11, 2009.