Carolina Bori helped establish behavior analysis and the scientific study of psychology in Brazil. Many in the thriving community of Brazilian behavior analysis today can trace their intellectual roots to the early work of Dr. Bori and Fred Keller.

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Dr. Carolina Bori passed away on October 4th, at 2:50 pm, causing a national sadness among Brazilian psychologists. She was the first president of the Brazilian Psychological Association, and one of the most important constructors of scientific psychology in Brazil. She was the first woman president of the Brazilian Association for the Advancement of Science and was very well known as a strong defender of democratic principles and of autonomy for universities in Brazil. With Fred Keller, she started the first Experimental Analysis of Behavior graduate program in Brazil, at the University of São Paulo. She kept teaching there until some weeks ago as an Emeritus Professor, although she was 80 years old!!!

Generous and strong at the same time, she has been the bulwark of Brazilian psychology and, until her last days, she worked tirelessly in defense of a better curriculum for psychology courses in Brazil, promoting the science and rigorous methodological work in behavioral research. Behavior analysts, her descendents, now have more responsibility in keeping alive her great work!

Martha Hübner
President of the Brazilian Psychology Association

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