Scholarly publications

Includes peer reviewed journals within and adjacent to behavior analysis

(Starred journals available to BCBAs through the BACB portal)

Behavior Analysis in Practice
7/8 Wessel, M.A., Sears, K.R., Stephens, M.J. et al. Further Analysis of Keynote and Invited Speakers at State-Level Behavior Analysis Conferences: Encouraging Progress, Potential Challenges, and Paths Forward. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01211-y
There are now more female than male keynote speakers (reflecting the field as a whole), but the best predictor of being a keynote speaker is previously being a keynote speaker 

Behavioral Interventions *
7/6 Fuhrmann-Knowles, Angela, Julia Ferguson, Justin B. Leaf, and Joseph H. Cihon. 2026. “ A Comparison of Simultaneous Prompting and Flexible Prompt Fading in Teaching Autistic Children to Label Stimulus Sets,” Behavioral Interventions: e70126. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70126
In a Justin-Leaf-y study, "flexible prompt fading" was compared to simultaneous prompts, with findings that FPF was more effective in mastering more sets. SP was more efficient. Other results were mixed 

7/8 Yensen, Christian P., and Chata A. Dickson. 2026. “ Using Graduated Exposure Without Extinction to Increase Cooperation With Medical Procedures,” Behavioral Interventions: e70125. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70125
2 autistic men with challenging behaviors learned to tolerate 2 medical procedures without escape extinction in less than 40 minutes. Escape was available following problem behavior or cooperation; reinforcement was available after cooperation; and the procedures were faded in by proximity and duration 

7/11 Liang, Jingqi, Salvador Ruiz, Lauren Schnell-Peskin, and Benjamin S. Riden. 2026. “ Using a Hybrid Behavioral Skills Training Intervention to Teach Behavior Technicians to Implement Functional Communication Training,” Behavioral Interventions: e70127. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70127
3 subjects were taught to implement FCT using BST delivered through telehealth and in-person, with role play. The 3 subjects implemented the skill correctly in further role play 

Perspectives on Behavior Science
7/7 Tennyson, A., May, R. & Mc Tiernan, A. Establishing Core Outcome Sets to Advance Evidence Synthesis in Behavior Analysis. Perspect Behav Sci (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-026-00507-2
(Open access) Core outcome sets are generally agreed-upon standards for change. The authors suggest a balance between behaviorist values (e.g., measurable, observable) and stakeholder values (e.g., well-being, satisfaction) 

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior *
7/7 Bernardy, J. L., Avellaneda, M., Santiago, J. B., de Oliveira Siqueira, J., Silveira, P. S. P., & Benvenuti, M. F. (2026). Performance and feedback function on variable differential reinforcement of low rates: Tempus urgit vel abundat? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 126(1), e70122. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70122
Rats in a variable DRL schedule are required to wait at variable durations before responding for reinforcement. The authors find that the responding is "structured" 

7/8 Hinnenkamp, J. E., Neal, J., & Galizio, A. (2026). Investigating the effects of olfactory stimuli on rats' choices for probabilistic reinforcers. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 126(1), e70121. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70121
Organisms generally prefer high probability food deliveries, but in pigeons, if there is a signal for when the food is delivered, it can lead to choosing a less-probable food delivery. There have been mixed findings with rats, but the authors in this study found that the majority of rats chose a lower-probability delivery 

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
7/8 Shnitzer-Meirovich, S., Aviad, S. & Gur, A. Psychological Flexibility, Community Resilience, and Distress in Parents of Children With Autism and Typical Development During Wartime. J Autism Dev Disord (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-026-07407-z
(Open access) Waging war on people is bad for your health, but then again it’s worse for the people killed

Journal of Behavioral Education
7/10 Riggleman, S., Lane Schell, C., Hirsch, S. et al. Barriers and Facilitators to Obtaining Supervised Fieldwork Hours: A Survey of Behavior Analysis Trainees. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09641-y
A survey of 429 people who are "seeking supervision" finds that payment for supervision, supervisor disorganization, and access to clients are the most common barriers to supervision. Only 16% of those surveyed reported no barriers

Book publications

Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market

Upcoming:
Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice, Layng, Andronis, Codd, Abdel-Jalil (Eds.) (Nov 2026)
Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis, Abdel-Jalil & Linnehan (Eds.) (Oct 2026)
WAVE Prosocial Assessment and Curriculum, Rehfeldt & Dixon (Pre-order)
AIM Navigators, Dixon (Pre-order)
Personal Narratives on the Behavior Analysis of Human Language and Cognition: Stories from Around the World, Harte et al. (Eds.)
Digital Technologies in Behavior Science: Theoretical and Practical Applications, Crone-Todd, Hantula, Layng (Eds.)
Promoting Language for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Verbal Behavior Guide for Practitioners, Vladescu & Kissamore (Eds.)
Navigating Ethics in Behavior Analysis: Dealing with Gray Areas, Carr

Recent:
2025
2024
2023

Podcasts

ABA Inside Track
Preparing for Public School Practice w/ Dr. Kristin Foley + Dr. Fina Robertson

Blogs

Generally these are produced by professionals

ABAI
Before the First Word: The Science Behind Early Language
A brief overview of best-practices in childhood language development 

What else is going on with ABAI blogs? This week, 6 blog entries were posted (1 2 3 4 5 6), all with some kind of AI disclosure. Frankly it’s not necessary to disclose – it’s obvious because the way AI writes is stupid and bad. The blogs are the definition of “content,” a sub-wikipedia presentation of a bland idea, written in perfect “front of book” voice. It’s technically competent, a Hallmark movie aimed at film students. So, anyway, no thank you

Licensing & professional organizations

BACB
New portal
Long overdue

ASAN
Submit IACC comments by July 17th

Business world

Autism services, behavioral health, etc.

‘The economics just don’t work’: CMS’ ACCESS model draws scrutiny
Medicare wants to dip its toes into a form of value-based care, a topic that hasn’t come up lately. Perhaps this is why: it’s a funding cut, even for quality providers. Outcomes are notoriously difficult to agree on (though see POBS this week), and any outcome tied to money is sure to be manipulated. 

Accidentally behavior analysis

A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis

Why avoiding temptation may work better than resisting it, CBC
What if “self-control” is not a matter of internal willpower that you can’t change? Rather, what if it were a skill, one that behaviorists might call “precurrent behavior.” If it were a skill, it could be taught, and failures would be less damaging.

Continuing education

UPCOMING:

BehaviorLive has free events: 7/15, 7/20, 7/22 (ETH), 7/23 (SUP), 7/27 (SUP), 7/29

Flashback

A human operant laboratory

Alexandra Rutherford, who has written a number of interesting historical accounts of behaviorism, writes about Ogden Lindsley and BF Skinner starting a translational lab with human subjects in 1953.

Initially, institutionalized men with schizophrenia were placed in rooms where they could pull levers for reinforcers such as coins or pictures of scantily-clad women (no women were research subjects in case their period affected their behavior – yes, really). The response patterns were similar to those of other organisms.

Rutherford notes that the initial name, “Studies in Behavior Therapy,” may have been chosen for public acceptance, while the founders were clearly committed (at least initially) to experimental work.

A few years later, Skinner was hardly involved, but Lindsley was still there – though the name had been changed to the Harvard Medical School Behavior Research Laboratory – and working in behavioral pharmacology. In his work with schizophrenic patients, he used automatic sound recording to capture self-talk and electronic floor mats to capture pacing. When lever pulling was put on extinction and self-talk was reinforced, self-talk actually decreased, increasing again when not directly reinforced.

In 1965, Lindsley closed the lab, but during its operation it was visited by people who may have been directly influenced, including Azrin & Ayllon.