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
2/23 Melanson, I.J., Fahmie, T.A. & Livingston, C.P. Access to Arbitrary Stimuli During Fixed-Lean Schedule Thinning. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01161-5
3 kids with challenging behaviors maintained by access or access and escape were given continuous attention (not functionally related to the behaviors), or no attention, during wait times for schedule thinning. Both conditions saw similar reductions in challenging behavior, but 2/3 participants and 1 participant parent preferred the attention condition 

Chastain, A.N., Dixon, M.R. Using Equivalence-Based Instruction to Teach Value-Congruent Action Identification to Autistic Teens. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01152-y
(Open access) 3 autistic teens learned (A) value-congruent actions, (B) outcomes, and (C) values/ They were trained on A-B and B-C relations; 2 participants learned A-C (transitive) relations without training, while 1 participant required multiple exemplars to learn the A-C relations

2/24 Elliott, TC.C., Wise, C.N., Torelli, J.N. et al. Matched Sensory Stimulation to Reduce Automatically Maintained Challenging Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01140-2
(Open access) In a literature review, 32 studies were identified that used matched stimuli (e.g., crunchy food freely available to compete with pica) versus unmatched stimuli (e.g., crunchy food freely available to compete with elopement) and control conditions. Matched stimuli was more effective at reducing challenging behaviors

2/25 Kranak, M.P., Shawler, L.A., Andzik, N.R. et al. Research Productivity of Behavior-Analytic Programs and Faculty: An Update. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01168-y
The authors updated previous research, finding significant turnover in the most productive roles at universities

2/26 Sandoz, E.K., Kaplan-Reimer, H. Evolving Values, Expanding Contexts, and Centering Care: Introduction to the Special Issue on Compassion in Behavior Analysis. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01166-0
(Open access) Arguing for more compassion is currently not popular 

Valentino, A.L., Zimmerman, V.L. A Proposed Framework for Organizational Quality Planning to Enhance Service Delivery in Applied Behavior Analysis for Autism Service Providers. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01172-2
A complete blueprint for quality. Maybe this will become a book?

Journal of Organizational Behavior Management *
2/22 Davis, T. A., Tereshko, L. M., Weiss, M. J., & Creem, A. (2026). Using the teaching interaction procedure (TIP) to train staff on building electronic clinical programming books in CentralReach. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061.2026.2632249
TIP (not so different from BST) was used to teach CentralReach software skills and it worked

Behavioral Interventions *
2/28 Keene, Hannah, Erin Elfers, and Sally B. Shepley. 2026. “ A Component Analysis of Behavioral Skills Training for Teaching Data Collection to Preservice Professionals,” Behavioral Interventions: e70071. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70071
In a component analysis, modeling was found to be most effective for teaching data collection. A previous study found that feedback is more effective than modeling

Behavior and Social Issues
2/27 Shea, P. Implementing Safe Spaces for 2SLGBTQ+ Communities: Principles Derived from a Culturo-Behavior Analysis. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-026-00248-6
The author examines two communities in Canada

Journal of Behavioral Education
2/25 Tanious, R., Onghena, P. On the Need to Address Serial Dependency When Dealing with Data from Single-Case Experimental Designs. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09624-z
(Open access) Serial dependency is (as near as we can tell) the fact that values can be predicted from previous values or from the passage of time. That is, three data points rising in value, leading to a 4th point that rises in value, can be predicted statistically. Therefore, because data is typically related in SCED, serial dependency should be considered in statistical measures 

Fowler Riem, K., Skinner, C., Cole, C. et al. Social Skill Performance: Using a Multi-Element Design to Investigate the Moderating Influence of Activities While Tootling. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09618-x
Tootling is an intervention that is akin to the opposite of tattling: privately reporting positive behavior to adults, or writing it down. The authors implemented a tootling intervention directly after teaching social skills, and found increased utilization of the skills 

Ebner, S., Romines Parks, G. & Aspiranti, K. Combining the Concrete Representational Abstract Approach and Video Modeling to Increase Basic Addition Skills for First Grade Students. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09623-0
A math intervention worked, but it was hard to read about because The Authors capitalized Random words Inexplicably 

Norwine, L., C. Bouck, E. Going Beyond Data Analysis: Training Preservice Special Education Teachers to Select Instructional Strategies Through the Learning Stages Framework. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09622-1
(Open access) The authors trained preservice teachers to make data-based decisions on instruction, which increased their skill 

Tincani, M. The Inductive-Deductive Research Continuum and Single-Case Experimental Design. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09625-y
(Open access) An argument that most SCED studies are deductive (e.g., will x improve y) versus inductive (e.g., what is the effect of x on y). He argues that there should be a clear delineation, and that if there is a hypothesis it should be preregistered 

Ford, K.R., Simmons, C.A. Comparison of Instructional Methods With and Without Physical Guidance When Teaching Chained Tasks. Educ. Treat. Child. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-025-00173-0
The authors used a multiple opportunity probe (e.g., presenting every step of a task whether or not the previous step was completed correctly) and compared it to physical guidance with 3 autistic kids who had severe challenging behaviors. The MOP procedure was more effective and efficient, and resulted in fewer challenging behaviors, and therapists preferred it 

Barall, R.J., Shillingsburg, M.A., Lin, G. et al. A Systematic Review of Direct Instruction for Individuals with Acquired Brain Injuries and Chronic Brain Disorders. Educ. Treat. Child. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-026-00175-6
Across 44 years, the authors found only 5 studies (and none after 2009) that examined DI with people with TBI

Book publications

Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market

Upcoming:
Personal Narratives on the Behavior Analysis of Human Language and Cognition:

Stories from Around the World, Harte et al. (Eds.) (Jul 2026)
WAVE Prosocial Assessment and Curriculum, Rehfeldt & Dixon (Pre-order)
Digital Technologies in Behavior Science: Theoretical and Practical Applications, Crone-Todd, Hantula, Layng (Eds.) (Pre-order Feb 25, 2026)
AIM Navigators, Dixon (Pre-order)
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

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Podcasts

ABA Inside Track
Preschool Life Skills Three-view

Behavioral Observations
Developing Rapport and Sustaining Motivation in Autism Treatment: Session 325 with Alice Shillingsburg

Blogs

Generally these are produced by professionals

ABAI
The Top 5 Experiences That Shaped My Approach to Conceptually Systematic Services
A short but interesting guest post

How to Better Understand and Approach Everyday Ethics
Approaching ethics as a constant evaluation

The Philosophical Pillars of Radical Behaviorism
Excavating the historical antecedents to radical behaviorism

Steve Hayes
The People Who Never Made It to the Room: Sometimes the walls keeping people out are ones we built without ever noticing.
A few thoughts on acceptance

Licensing & professional organizations

ASAN
Take Action to Protect Our Right to Vote!

Business world

Autism services, behavioral health, etc.

Improved outcomes at Vanderbilt children’s hospital

Implementing new multidisciplinary workflows helped reduce behavioral health boarding admissions by 78% and shorten patients’ length of stay by more than 50%. And consultations by a recently hired board-certified behavioral [sic] analyst significantly improved patient care and reduced restraint utilization by 67%.

Vanderbilt might be a uniquely receptive location when it comes to hiring a BCBA. Nevertheless, hospitals are typically receiving patients every day who are in crisis, and there is a real need to reduce force and coercion in treatment.

Accidentally behavior analysis

A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis

With reading scores slipping, Massachusetts is changing course. Some teachers aren’t happy, The Hechinger Report
and

The Maryland School District ‘Doing the Improbable’ in Teaching Kids to Read, The74
In a low-income majority Maryland school district, one school outperforms the state in reading scores. Strong leadership has aligned practices, and teachers adopt successful practices.

In Massachusetts, long a leader in education, “just 42 percent of third graders in the state met reading expectations on 2025 state tests.” But a potential law that would prescribe specific curriculum caused teachers to balk, as they want to control their classroom – whether or not their curriculum is effective is apparently secondary.

These two articles illustrate the “problem” with literacy: 1) it is a solved problem, and we know how to teach the vast majority of people to read, and 2) it is politically unpopular to do so.

Continuing education

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Flashback

Noam Chomsky is Bad, actually

Noam Chomsky infamously tackled Skinner’s Verbal Behavior in 1959. While Verbal Behavior is not beyond criticism – for one thing, it’s a conceptual analysis and uses virtually no data – Chomsky’s criticism is strident and aggressive, yet vacuous.

Chomsky tends to believe that humans have special innate grammar. Indeed, from that 1959 paper:

The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or "hypothesis-formulating" ability of unknown character and complexity.

To Chomsky, it was absurd for Skinner to speculate that responses are under the control of a stimulus, or that making sounds can be automatically reinforcing. But Chomsky’s conclusion was that humans have “data-handling ability.” In the same way that Kuo criticized the nature of instinct, Chomsky might have recognized the failings of his own hypothesis: if humans have special innate grammar, there’s no need to look further.

But if we look to the environment, we see that birds of various kinds, bees, octopuses and whales communicate. Additionally, human language is only similar if you’re not familiar with the nonwhites.

Also he was in the Epstein files.