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 *
4/21 Miller, K., Lewis, T. K., Cariveau, T., & Brown, A. (2025). Comparison of matching the compound or elements as a differential problem-solving response. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70011
(Open access) Five kids with reading difficulty were required to give an observing response, in this case matching either parts of words or whole words. The part-matching condition resulted in fewer trials to criterion, but was not preferred by the participants

4/24 Glodowski, K. R., & Hayashi, Y. (2025). Toward cross-disciplinary translation of the testing effect: A systematic replication. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70012
(Open access) The authors compared class conditions with no quizzes, 5 question quizzes, and 10 question quizzes. Quizzes improved test scores and some academic behavior, but length of quiz was not a factor

Behavior Analysis in Practice
4/23 Ramos, M.L.F. MIEBL: Measurement of Individualized, Evidence-Based Learning Criteria Designed for Discrete Trial Training. Behav Analysis Practice (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01058-9
(Open access) A data tool that can inform mastery criteria 

Patel, M.R., Ney, H.M. & Andersen, A.S. Using a Sequential Skills Training Model to Increase Oral-Motor Skills for Consuming Table-Textured Foods. Behav Analysis Practice (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01053-0
The authors designed a sequential pediatric feeding package to increase oral motor skills 

Morris, C., Morris, D.B., Ferrucci, B.J. et al. A Review of Behavior-Analytic Articles that Cite a Source of Misinformation about ABA. Behav Analysis Practice (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01061-0
The authors focus on 1 paper that has become notorious: Kupferstein 2018, which asserts that ABA causes PTSD. It is good to see the authors of this paper call out Kupferstein as misinformation, since the article itself uses an online survey to find that autistic adults who went through ABA have higher rates of PTSD-like symptoms than those who did not -- with the glaring error that there is no causality implied by those results

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior *
4/22 Klapes, B., & McDowell, J. J (2025). A contemporary quantitative model for continuous choice under reinforcing and punishing contingencies. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1–20.https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70009
In a complex study, the authors compared hypothetical models of punishment: additive, subtractive, and generalized matching law. They experimented with human subjects and found that performance most closely tracked the generalized matching law model

4/23 King, H. C., Spink, C., & Falligant, J. M. (2025). Discriminative properties of reinforcers modulate resurgence: A human-operant demonstration. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70010
A young autistic boy experienced reinforcement and alternative reinforcement; both deliveries mitigated resurgence, but alternative reinforcement slightly increased resurgence. This is very similar to a recent rat study published in JEAB, which found that alternative reinforcement resulted in increased resurgence 

Catania, A. C. (2025). Urcuioli's differential-outcomes research: Implications for our behavioral units. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70018
Catania, building off of Urcuioli's suggestion that we include consequences as a class (akin to a response class), discusses the possibility of categorizing consequences similar to other scientific concepts (e.g., a molecule within a cell)

Education and Treatment of Children
4/24 Greenwood, C.R., Bourque, K., Carta, J.J. et al. Introduction to the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project. Educ. Treat. Child. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-025-00157-0
Introduction to a special issue

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
4/23 Distinct Pathways to Well-Being: Exploring Valued Action and Mood Among Stoics and Non-Stoics
(In press) The Australian authors measured reports for a group they divided into "Stoics" and "non-Stoics"; the Stoics had little or no connection between well-being and valued action, while the non-Stoics had a clear relationship between valued action and well-being. The authors believe that this means that there are two paths to happiness

4/24 Evaluating the naturalistic implementation of a peer-coaching service to augment online acceptance and commitment therapy for college mental health
(In press) Peer coaches can help with adherence to digital mental health treatments (think: sponsors for AA). However, a small number sign up to be peer coaches and many drop out of coaching classes; additionally, people are not likely to engage with the coaching calls 

Latent Profiles of Processes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Their Associations with Eating Disorder Symptoms Among Adult Women
(In press) In a large sample of women at a Hawaiian university, 5 profiles were developed from survey results, and high flexibility and low inflexibility were associated with fewer symptoms of eating disorders

Book publications

Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market

Upcoming:
A.I.M. Explorers Curriculum Book Volume 2 Mountain Climb, Dixon (Pre-order)
Handbook of Operant Behavioral Economics, Reed, Kaplan & Gilroy (Eds.) (Available Jul. 1, 2025)

New this quarter:
Ethical Decision Making in Applied Behavior Analysis, Schwartz & Kelly
Leadership and Management Practices in Human Services Organizations, Gardner et al.
Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis for Behavior Technicians and Other Practitioners, 4/E, Wallace & Mayer
Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change, 6/E, Mayer, Wallace, & Sulzer-Azaroff 

Using Functional Analysis in Psychotherapy, Niklas Törneke
Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training, Edition 1, Sturmey & Maffei-Almodovar 

Research Methods in Applied Behavior Analysis (3rd Edition), Bailey & Burch
Multiculturalism and Diversity in Applied Behavior Analysis: Bridging Theory and Application (2nd Edition), Conners & Capell (Eds.)
Talk Behavior to Me: The Routledge Dictionary of the Top 150 Behavior Analytic Terms and Translations, Samuel
The Behavior of Social Justice, Parks et al.
A Practical Guide to Functional Assessment and Treatment for Severe Problem Behavior, Jessel & Sturmey (Eds.)
Handbook of Organizational Performance, Volume II, D. Johnson & C. Johnson (Eds.)

Recent:

2024

2023

Podcasts

ABA Inside Track
Episode 308 - You Forgot To Do Your Paperwork

Blogs

Generally these are produced by professionals

Steve Hayes
What If You Didn’t Need to Feel Better to Live Better? Why chasing happiness can backfire and what to do instead

Licensing & professional organizations

ASAN
ASAN Gravely Concerned by Administration’s Plans for Autistic People’s Medical Data
If you were out of the loop this week, lucky you – boiled ham and liquid dye-consumer RFK Jr. announced a typically worm-brained plan for an “Autism Registry,” but within 48 hours…

HHS Walks Back “Autism Registry” Plans
…they should have sent a poet. An autistic poet

Business world

Autism services, behavioral health, etc.

Expediting clinical trials for profound autism: Q&A with Matthew State
Some people feel that studies, treatment, and care for people with profound autism is lacking – and it is (one recent parent’s story in the NYT). Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, has an autistic child, and his foundation is committed to improving treatment in the following ways:

ARIA plans to invest in clinical infrastructure for these centers so that they can implement findings from basic and translational research carried out by “frontier science hubs,” State says, which will begin forming via an RFA later this year. The initiative seeks to develop diverse treatment modalities at these hubs, including genetic medicines, small molecules and neuromodulators. ARIA also intends to foster collaboration with researchers who work on conditions that overlap with autism, such as epilepsy and intellectual disability.

Accidentally behavior analysis

A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis

What Happens When Private Equity Owns Your Kid’s Day Care
Private equity buys nursing homes, where more residents subsequently die; buy apartments and subsequently jack up rents while cutting maintenance; buy up hospitals, squeeze them for a profit until they fail, and shift unsustainable amounts of care into emergency rooms; and buy up hospice chains where they do what they do best: allow people to die at a cost. They also manage to buy up ABA clinics, fail to manage them, and sell them at a loss. Now we learn that they own daycare chains where they apply CEO-brained logic: staff are a cost that you can cut. Maybe RFK can get in on this grift?

Continuing education

UPCOMING:

BehaviorLive is back to posting free events: 5/1 (SUP), 5/9, 5/13, 5/15, 5/28

Flashback

Is ABA “neoconservative”? Was Skinner a Marxist?

In 1991, Jerome Ulman discussed the Marxist possibilities of behaviorism. In 1985, Skinner discussed the potential Marxism/anarchism of Walden Two. 

In 2018, Mark Garrison argued that ABA is “neoliberal” – though he struggles to define “neoliberal.” While it is not easy to define, we believe that what was meant is the following: nominally liberal, but only within maintaining the status quo. That is, he posits ABA wants to mold learners into perfect citizens (employees, voters, taxpayers).

While it is a misunderstanding of ABA to suggest it is neoliberal, Garrison is correct that many practitioners choose to enforce an unthinking neoliberalism by working on skills that primarily are taught because the skills are expected by society.