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Family dynamics (-), unethical plan? 

So my dad has this tendency to be really verbally explosive in his anger. It's annoying at best, intimidating at worst.

I'm considering taking ABC data (a type of behavior observation wherein I record the antecedent (precursor), behavior, and consequence) when he does this to determine the function of his outbursts. My guess is attention but I don't know.

I don't think I can do this w/o bias (or even should) but I'm also just super curious.

Family dynamics (-), unethical plan? 

Anyway I responded to one of his outbursts earlier by 100% ignoring him and he quickly shut up, so...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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