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
1/23 Wilson, A.N. Introduction to the Special Section: Spotlight on Acceptance and Commitment Training. Behav Analysis Practice (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-024-01039-4
(Open access) Really going all-in on the "Training"
Semino, M., Riccio, E., Giannatiempo, S. et al. Evaluating a Treatment Package to Reduce Toe Walking and Improve Ankle Mobility in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Multi-Component Intervention. Behav Analysis Practice (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-024-01035-8
4 boys aged 3-6 with persistent toe-walking were treated with motor exercises, positive reinforcement, corrective feedback, and precision teaching. It worked, but they did not conduct a long-term follow-up or measure generalization
Behavioral Interventions *
1/21 Auten, E.M., Irwin Helvey, C. and Van Camp, C. (2025), Further Translational Evaluations of Efficacy and Preference for Isolated and Synthesized Contingency Procedures. Behavioral Interventions, 40: e2076. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.2076
(Open access) In an analog task, an FA detected function better than an SCA, but isolated and synthesized DRA had the same effect on behavior, while preference was split. In all: no strong findings for or against the IISCA model versus "traditional" FA
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior *
1/19 Shahan, T. A., & Avellaneda, M. (2025). The extinction burst: Effects of reinforcement magnitude. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.4238
In rats, baseline alternative responding was measured when lever presses released 1 or 6 food pellets; there was less alternative responding with 6 pellets. In extinction, responses increased most with the 6 pellet condition. If introduced sequentially (1 pellet, extinction, 6 pellets, extinction) the alternative responding was lower
The Psychological Record
1/22 Bianchi, P.H., Perez, W.F., Harte, C. et al. Relational Coherence, Speaker Preference, and Rule-Following: A Replication and Extension of Bianchi et al. (2021). Psychol Rec (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-024-00628-7
Subjects were trained in arbitrary relations between stimuli, then exposed to cartoon avatars that "spoke" (in a speech bubble) the same rules or conflicting rules. Then during testing, the participants chose which speaker would give the "rule" for each trial, and even though both were programmed to give the correct rule, participants preferred the speaker who gave the initial correct rule. Another data point in favor of consistency in speech
Journal of Behavioral Education
1/25 Okyar, S., Aslan, C. Effectiveness of Simultaneous Prompting in Ensuring Independent Living Skills in Young People with Multiple Disabilities. J Behav Educ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-025-09577-9
Simultaneous prompts were used to teach living skills to two teenagers in Turkey. It worked and the skills maintained
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
1/23 Examining the Effects of Process-Based Therapy: A Multiple Baseline Study
(In press) 5 participants in a multiple-baseline study were treated with intensive process-based therapy which improved various outcomes, though at differing rates
Book publications
Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market
Upcoming:
Using Functional Analysis in Psychotherapy, Niklas Törneke (Available now)
Ethical Decision Making in Applied Behavior Analysis, Schwartz & Kelly (Available Mar. 2025)
New this quarter:
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.)
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:
Podcasts
ABA Inside Track
Episode 299 - Collaborative Problem Solving
Behavioral Observations
Bidirectional Naming: Session 287 with Caio Miguel
Inside the BACB
Getting to Know the RBT Application and Examination
Blogs
Generally these are produced by professionals
ABAI
Stronger Together
Detailing various special interest groups within ABAI
Licensing & professional organizations
BACB
The 2025 Michael Hemingway Behavior Analysis Award
goes to Misty Bloom, a lawyer who has worked in advocacy since 1998
ASAT
Craniosacral Therapy
Is there evidence in favor of craniosacral therapy? (No)
Business world
Autism services, behavioral health, etc.
Insurers inventing more roadblocks to claims, providers say
Beginning in March, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will assess fees when providers appeal some commercial claims. If a state external review board rules in favor of Blue Cross twice, the insurer will bill providers for the administrative costs associated with defending itself.
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The UnitedHealth Group subsidiary is rolling out the fourth and final phase of a new system for molecular pathology tests in March. Under this policy, hospitals must submit additional, non-billing codes for commercial claims for hundreds of such tests.
Harder to file claims, but harder to appeal as well. Also insurers deliberately violate Mental Health Parity. At a certain point, why have insurance?
Accidentally behavior analysis
A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis
Public Health Can’t Stop Making the Same Nutrition Mistake, The Atlantic
What if telling people what to do didn’t work so well? For example, telling problem drinkers that they should drink less doesn’t work. What about a personalized, 1-hour long interview that decreased problem drinking in college students? Motivational interviewing may not be something that can be deployed at scale by the federal government, but could be used in smaller group or individual interventions.
Continuing education
UPCOMING:
BehaviorLive has a list of events, some of which are free: 1/28, 1/29
Flashback
In 1992, Ogden Lindsley wrote an article that described why successful teaching is not adopted – at the time, he was talking about Project Follow Through, but also PSI and other effective yet abandoned systems. He mentions a system for teaching reading and writing based on “sonsils” – the basic sounds of a language. Go ahead and google that, and you will only find one reference to the book that Lindsley mentions, by one Francis Turnley, who also has no google presence to speak of. The book exists somewhere, and is an apparently effective tool lost to time.