Scholarly publications
Includes peer reviewed journals within and adjacent to behavior analysis
(Starred journals available to BCBAs through the BACB portal)
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior *
12/29 Shahan, T. A., Hiltz, J. B., Avellaneda, M., & Greer, B. D. (2026). Contingency discrimination training and resurgence: Effects of reduced extinction session durations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 125(1), e70072. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70072
Rats were exposed to different ratios of reinforcement:extinction while testing to see if resurgence occurred. Conditions that eliminated resurgence were 1:1 and escalating (fading in) ratios
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
12/30 A systematic review of the use of Discoverer, Noticer, Advisor-Value (DNA-V) model for children and young people with mental health difficulties
ACT for children and young people (CYP) has been adapted in a model called DNA-V, and findings are mixed (FAM)
Behavior and Philosophy
Guerin, Bernard (2025) Observations and words as doing: Contextualizing methodologies of exploration for science and life. Behavior and Philosophy, 53, 34-46.
(Open access) A discussion of how we use the words see and do, and how language can obfuscate description
Book publications
Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market
Upcoming:
Navigating Ethics in Behavior Analysis: Dealing with Gray Areas, Carr (Available now)
Digital Technologies in Behavior Science: Theoretical and Practical Applications, Crone-Todd, Hantula, Layng (Eds.) (Pre-order Feb 2026)
Promoting Language for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Verbal Behavior Guide for Practitioners, Vladescu & Kissamore (Eds.) (Pre-order)
AIM Navigators, Dixon (Pre-order)
Recent:
2025
Podcasts
ABA Inside Track
Bonus Episode 38 - The Year in ABA (2025)
Behavioral Observations
2025 Year in Review: Session 319 with ABA Inside Track
Functional Relations
#38 - Can I Take That $11 Gift Card? w/ Dr. Paula Kenyon
$20 off any CEU with code GIFT2025
Blogs
Generally these are produced by professionals
ABAI
Loose Ends
Tom Critchfield is done blogging, but here he links a bunch of unpublished pieces (when we last checked, none of the links worked)
Licensing & professional organizations
Business world
Autism services, behavioral health, etc.
Rates, Network Tightening and Scrutiny Could Force Consolidation in Autism Therapy
Can a company sell a product or service at a profit? The important question: can number go up forever? At a certain point, the profit margin has reached its peak, and then private equity loses interest, because number not go up. Payers increase barriers to payment, and in some cases, business guy says: we have to buy a company, to get their number. This works, until number not go up…
Accidentally behavior analysis
A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis
America Needs an Education Moonshot, Bloomberg
This is a somewhat muddled piece of opinion writing that gives insight into the less…nerdy corners of America. Here is a woman who graduated from Columbia, but seems unaware that excellent education research is coming out of her alma mater. She cites several cases where charter programs outperform public schools, when in the aggregate public schools outperform charter schools. She touches on failures in math and reading, but also tech concerns (?). But this kind of scattershot half-informed concern is probably one reason why we don’t just have phonics
Continuing education
UPCOMING:
BehaviorLive has free events: 1/6, 1/7 (ETH), 1/14, 1/22 (SUP), 1/27, 1/28 (SUP), 1/29, 1/30
Flashback
R. Douglas Greer and the evergreen problem
