Scholarly publications

Includes peer reviewed journals within and adjacent to behavior analysis

(Starred journals available to BCBAs through the BACB portal)

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis *
11/3 King, H. C., Mitteer, D. R., Kelly-McFarland, H., & Marobo, S. J. (2027). A preliminary evaluation of mitigating relapse of countertherapeutic caregiver behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 60(1), e70098. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70098
6 caregivers were taught to manage challenging behavior during a BST roleplay. 3 caregivers got standard roleplay, while 3 got "enhanced" roleplay, with additional challenging behavior and variable communication. In a later test with challenging conditions, the enhanced group had less resurgence behavior (i.e., reinforcing challenging behaviors/treatment nonadherence) 

11/5 Metzler, M., Campos, C., & Hangen, M. (2027). Using remote teach-back to train graduate students to implement latency-based functional analyses. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 60(1), e70093. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70093
3 grad students were taught via telehealth to implement a latency-based FA with teach-back; 2/3 reached mastery with 1/3 requiring additional feedback to reach mastery. The supporting info has fidelity checklists etc. 

Journal of Organizational Behavior Management *
11/3 Sasaki, G., & Yaegashi, Y. (2026). Organizational behavior management in Japan: Development, challenges, and contextual adaptation. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061.2026.275752
Japan has a unique work environment, and the authors detail the differences and the adaptations to OBM that follow (famously, Toyota has been an internationally inspirational case) 

Behavior and Social Issues
11/2 Jin, C., Vohlers, C., Erman, O. et al. A Preliminary Investigation of Brief Video-Based Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Waste Sorting Among University Students. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-026-00276-2
A 14-minute long training on waste sorting using video modeling and in-vivo rehearsal with feedback, with all participants improving from baseline. Extra feedback was necessary to get some subjects to 100% 

Behavior Modification *
11/2 Leary, M., Hui Toh, M., Whatnall, M., Evans, T., Collins, R. A., Burrows, T. L., & Skinner, J. A. (2026). Fidelity of Intervention Delivery in the TRACE Programme Randomised Controlled Trial, a Complex Behavioural Intervention for Food Addiction. Behavior Modification, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01454455261497708
In a RCT for disordered eating, there were 3 groups: telehealth with dieticians, self-paced workbook, and control. The telehealth group had fidelity monitored by measuring duration and content, with average fidelity being good but individual sessions sometimes missing content. Nevertheless it's not clear if this treatment actually worked (???) 

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior *
11/6 Martinez-Perez, C. N., Williams, J., Ritchey, C. M., Kuroda, T., Ekvall, K. O., & Podlesnik, C. A. (2026). Brief stimulus changes signaling extinction enhance resurgence. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 126(3), e70153. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70153
Stimuli signaling extinction appears to increase resurgence; the authors speculate that it could be that a stimulus change is similar to a context change 

Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions *
11/5 Melgarejo, M., Rose, M., Solis, M. R. S., Schetter, P., & Suhrheinrich, J. (2026). Characteristics of Tier 3 Behavior Intervention Plans for Autistic Students. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10983007261477428
120 "adequate" BIPs from 2 schools in California were examined for evidence-based practices. Aggression and off-task behavior were the most common, with the most common function as escape. An average of 7.4 EBPs were included, with the most common being reinforcement. The authors conclude that many of these interventions could be easily qualified as tier 1 or 2, rather than tier 3 

The Analysis of Verbal Behavior
11/3 Chang, H., Kim, J.Y. & Baldonado, L. The Effects of Multiple Exemplar Instruction on the Emergence of Vocal and Written Spelling Responses for Preschoolers. Analysis Verbal Behav (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-026-00236-2
With 5 preschoolers, they taught words to mastery with either written or spoken topography, then tested for the mastered words for the alternative topography, with only 8% generalization. For a second set of words, they rotated topographies until mastery was reached in both, then tested the original set, where untaught topographies increased to 78%. After teaching a 3rd set of words in only 1 topography, the untaught topography reached 76%, implying that multiple exemplar training resulted in emergent learning 

11/6 Wengrat Pichler, T., Rodrigues Vitti, G. & Laurenti, C. The “Unburned Bridge”: A Conceptual Analysis of the Roles of Literature in B. F. Skinner’s Life and Work. Analysis Verbal Behav (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-026-00234-4
(Open access) The authors discuss the influences on Skinner, though focused on literature and not philosophy (notably absent from the article, then, are Russell, Popper, Wittgenstein, etc.) 

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
11/7 Sarilho, C., Monteleone, T.V., Franklin, B.M. et al. Burnout Among Professionals in ABA-Based Services in Brazil. J Autism Dev Disord (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-026-07606-8
In Brazil, burnout within ABA is most prevalent among people with more than 10 clients on their caseload, which holds true across salary ranges 

Behavior and Philosophy
(Just published in the 2025 issue) Guazi, T. S., Mizael, T. M., & Fernandes, D. M. (2025). Beyond the discourses of quantitative and qualitative methods: A meta-scientific evaluation. Behavior and Philosophy, 53, 47–60.
(Open access) (link) The authors argue against the false dichotomy of quantitative and qualitative research from a philosophical perspective

Book publications

Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market

Upcoming:
An Ethics-Focused Guide for BCBA® Fieldwork: Shaping the Future, Solley & DePriest (Feb 2027)
Clinical Handbook of ABA Interventions for Autistic Learners: Research, Training, and Practice, Leaf, Ferguson, Cihon & Sanders (Eds.) (Dec 2026)
Performance Management and Supervision: A Behavior Analytic Perspective, Gravina & Jimenez-Gomez (Eds.) (Nov 2026)
Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice, Layng, Andronis, Codd, Abdel-Jalil (Eds.) (Nov 2026)
Handbook of Applied Behavior Analysis in the Classroom: Integrating Research into Practice, Jessel (Eds.) (Oct 2026)
Optimizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Translating Research Into Practice, Twohig & Levin (Eds.) (Oct 2026)
Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis, Abdel-Jalil & Linnehan (Eds.) (Oct 2026)
WAVE Prosocial Assessment and Curriculum, Rehfeldt & Dixon
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
November preview
Episodes will include:

• Self-Monitoring with Video Feedback

• Gestalt Language Processing

• Finding Buy-In with Classroom Management

Behavioral Observations
When Staying Home Works: Understanding School Refusal and Chronic Absenteeism

All Things Behavior
Suggestions for Repeated Measurement of Sleep and Behavior for Children with Autism Receiving Behavior Analysis Service w Lindsay Lloveras

Functional Relations
#48 - Finding a Job that Doesn't Suck w/ Liat Sacks

Blogs

Generally these are produced by professionals

ABAI
Research Opportunities in Environmental Sustainability
A few sources that include hundreds of research ideas 

OAR
New Definitions Proposed for Profound Autism
This debate has gone back and forth over the past year, and this blog post summarizes a few recent events

Licensing & professional organizations

ACQ
ACQ Clarifies Existing Worker Classification Compliance Expectations
Clarifying expectations around "worker classification compliance" -- could this be related to unionization efforts at Verbal Beginnings? (though they are not accredited by ACQ) 

Business world

Autism services, behavioral health, etc.

A company named “The Perfect Child” is under investigation for fraudulently billing over $800 million dollars (or perhaps something less eye-popping, like $160m) since just 2021. The gimmick is to make fake shell companies to bill out of network, while insisting to families that the parent company is actually in network. This is such an obscene trick that Lori Unumb published an op-ed in the WSJ insisting that fraud is not a typical facet of treatment

Accidentally behavior analysis

A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis

Peta releases video showing experiments on infant monkeys at University of Washington and OHSU’s leadership proposes a compromise for the primate research center
Technically these are centers focused on medical research, not behavioral research. Nevertheless, does this signal a reluctance to pursue research on primates, or even animal research altogether? (Commercial nonsense, like putting electrodes in a monkey brain so it can control a computer mouse, is skating by at the moment). On the other hand, free operant animal research is particularly possible for behaviorists.

Continuing education

UPCOMING:

BehaviorLive has free events: 11/10, 11/18, 11/19 (ETH), 11/23

Flashback

Beyond Freedom and Autonomy

In the Spring 1975 volume of Behaviorism, Mark Mendelsohn presents a very short (~3 page) but relatively convincing argument that man is free, but nonautonomous. 

His point is that humans engage in precurrent behavior – arranging their environment in such a way that reinforcement is contacted only indirectly. Humans are not “free” in the sense that their behavior is without cause or maintaining variables, but “free” in the sense that they may choose from an array of possible operants.