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 *
7/4 McHugh, C. L., Dozier, C. L., Kamlowsky, M. E., & Simmons, B. A. (2025). Synchronous reinforcement schedules promote tolerance of health-related routines for adults with disabilities. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70020
 In 5 adults with IDD, synchronous reinforcement (reinforcement delivered during behavior of interest, such as playing music) improved tolerance for 5/8 health routines (e.g., brushing teeth). Other modifications improved 2/8 routines, with 1 adult seeing no improvement in routines


Behavior Analysis in Practice
7/3 Cox, A.D., Savard, A., Thillainathan, T. et al. A Clinical Demonstration of Individualized Restraint Fading. Behav Analysis Practice (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01074-9
 In an adolescent with severe maladaptive behavior, restraint was faded, maladaptive behavior decreased, and engagement with tasks increased


Behavioral Interventions *
7/1 Mueller, M.M. International Development of Applied Behavior Analysis as a Profession. Perspect Behav Sci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-025-00463-3
 Discussion of ABA around the world


Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior * Volume 124, Issue 1 (22 articles, 7 open access)
 Most intriguing: Using must-have and can-have features to improve conceptual learning
 (Open access) Related: what is a chair?


6/30 Rapp, J. T., Baruni, R. R., Walker, E., Cook, J. L., Pinkston, J. W., Miltenberger, R. G., Deshmukh, S., Tai, S., & Sheridan, D. J. (2025). Using high-preference and low-preference music in a synchronous reinforcement treadmill preparation: A further extension. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70026. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70026
 High-preference music as consequence/synchronous reinforcement (e.g., music only plays while you walk) controlled walking speed for 2/3 of participants. Low-preference music as consequence caused almost half of participants to stop walking. Positive and negative reinforcement can control walking speed 


Avellaneda, M. A. (2025). A model of changeover behavior in two-alternative choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70025. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70025
 In a two-component variable interval schedule, switching is exponential within session (e.g., the rate does not increase or decrease). Therefore, if you record the "leaving time," you can model the changeover using a Markov chain. This is my very best attempt at explaining this one 


Jimenez-Gomez, C., Ritchey, C. M., Brewer, A. T., Cowie, S., & Podlesnik, C. A. (2025). Discriminative control of choice by reinforcers in children and adults. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70024. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70024
 In an analog task, images of reinforcers were followed by the next reinforcers in either the same location, the opposite location, or a random location. Responses followed where the next programmed reinforcer would be, rather than where the previous one was found, implying that reinforcers are discriminative rather than strengthening. This type of article could be very meaningful, as there is definitely debate about whether reinforcers "strengthen" a response at all 


Pergher, N. K., Huziwara, E. M., & Tomanari, G. Y. (2025). Eye movements along the establishment of functional stimuli classes. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70016. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70016
 (Open access) In 5 conventionally developing adults, eye tracking was used during an electronic matching task with class formation and reversals. In this study, the subjects looked for longer durations at the nonexamples, and looked at the examples and matches for longer periods after reversals 


Costa, C. E., da Silva, K. P., de Méo Luiz, A. C., Choinski, A. M., & Lattal, K. A. (2025). Contrasting effects of reinforcer rate and magnitude on differential resistance to change in humans. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70027. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70027
 (Open access) In an analog task, participants exchanged points for money; in a second experiment they got money or snacks immediately. There was no difference in resistance to change between these groups when response requirements were increased. In a 3rd experiment there was greatest resistance to change in a VI schedule with a high reinforcement rate 


Daniel, T. A., Forloines, M. R., Cook, R. G., & Katz, J. S. (2025). Testing behavioral flexibility in pigeons using conditional midsession reversal tasks. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70028. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70028
 In 2 different tasks, matching and nonmatching, there was more flexibility if visual stimuli were only used in the separate conditions; when the visual stimuli were present in both conditions, there was less flexibility due to interference in a reversal 


Lanovaz, M. J., Hernandez, V., & León, A. (2025). Machine learning to detect schedules using spatiotemporal data of behavior: A proof of concept. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70029. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70029
 (Open access) The authors used movement data of rats, paired with various algorithims, to see if schedules could be detected. The algorithms detected schedules, except for fixed versus variable time schedules, and no algorithm outperformed any other 


Tewogbola, P., Jacobs, E. A., Lee, Y.-T., Redner, R. N., McDaniel, J. T., & Asirvatham, J. (2025). Beyond the jab: Modeling HIV vaccine acceptance in sexual and gender minorities with behavioral economic demand. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70038. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70038
 Sexual and gender minorities recruited from online communities engaged in a hypothetical purchase task with HIV vaccines. Surprisingly, characteristics of the vaccine (injection, nasal or oral; multiple vaccines or 1 per year) had little effect on demand. Individual characteristics impacted demand, such as trust in science and injection drug history 


Williams, C. L., St. Peter, C. C., Perone, M., Aguilar, M., Cederberg, B. A., Gregersen, D. J., & Richardson, E. J. (2025). Using must-have and can-have features to improve conceptual learning. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70037. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70037
 (Open access) An experiment taught concepts using examples, examples with similar nonexamples, and examples with dissimilar nonexamples. Learning was most robust with examples and similar nonexamples 


Velasquez, J. C., Flores, C. J., & Durán, E. E. (2025). Reinstatement of negatively reinforced behavior with rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70034. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70034
 Reinstatement of responding occurred in most rats in a negative reinforcement contingency wherein responses produced timeout from shocks. After response-independent timeouts, the response was reinstated 


Brown, R. C., Monske, K. L., & Reilly, M. P. (2025). An investigation of stimulus prevalence effects in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70033. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70033
 Some studies have reported that organisms respond to low-prevalence stimuli, while some report the opposite. Rats in this study responded more to high-prevalence flashes, but starting with equal prevalence helped them discriminate when the prevalence was later decreased 


Colasurdo, C. R., Reeve, K. F., Jennings, A. M., Vladescu, J. C., Reeve, S. A., & Albright, L. K. (2025). Comparing traditional match-to-sample training with observational learning to establish equivalence classes with adults. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70032. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70032
 Observational learning with video models in 2 conditions -- increasingly correct (mixed), or always 100% correct -- were compared with matching to sample training. Mixed video models were the most effective, while all methods were similarly efficient 


Lazareva, O. (2025). Transitive inference and transitivity: Two sides of the same coin? Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70031. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70031
 Verbal transitive inference and transitivity are similar, but it's not clear if they rely on similar mechanisms. The authors don't solve it, but suggest future directions 


Hinnenkamp, J. E., Dunthorn, A., Galizio, A., & Rogers, T. (2025). A free-operant olfactory choice procedure to assess preference for social and nonsocial scents in female rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 124(1), e70030. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70030
 Rats prefer social and nonsocial scents to a control scent, but appear to prefer social and nonsocial scents equally


7/2 Tennyson, A. (2025), A review of Life as No One Knows It by Sara Imari Walker. J Exp Anal Behav, 124: e70039. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70039
 A book by a physicist about the origins of life that argues in favor of assembly theory, essentially a (controversial) selectionist philosophy of everything. Skinner was heavily influenced by Darwin, and generally believed in selectionism for life, behavior, and culture


Journal of Behavioral Education
7/4 Osnaya, R.A., Augustine, J.J., Rispoli, M.J. et al. ParaImpact: A Professional Development Program to Improve Paraeducator Systematic Instruction Fidelity for Students with Moderate-to-Severe Developmental Disabilities. J Behav Educ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-025-09591-x
 Teachers are asked to supervise paraeducators without training. ParaImpact trained teachers to supervise, which increased implementation fidelity for paras, but did not particularly increase teacher-para "cohesion"


7/5 Nuzzolo, R., Du, L., Buttigieg, S. et al. The Teacher Performance Rate and Accuracy Measure as a Teacher Training Intervention. J Behav Educ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-025-09592-w
 (Open access) The TPRA is a fidelity checklist. In baseline, a teacher modeled and the trainee attempted to teach; in the experiment, the teacher then gave detailed feedback based on the TPRA. Feedback improved teaching to 100% fidelity in 2-14 feedback sessions


Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
7/1 Mechanisms of Change in Peer Coaching for Digital ACT: A Serial Mediation Model on Program Adherence and Psychological Flexibility’s Role in Reducing Distress
 (In press) Phone and text coaching depend on program adherence, though phone coaching works better, even apart from program adherence


7/4 Accept to Change: Translation and Validation of the Acceptance/Avoidance-Promoting Experiences Questionnaire (APEQ) in an International Survey of Spanish-Speaking Psychedelic Users
 (In press) The APEQ works fine in Spanish; also maybe acceptance during psychedelic use is good (???)


Brazilian Journal of Behavior Analysis (REBAC) v. 21, n. 1 (12 articles, 12 open access) (Abstracts in English, articles in Portuguese)
 Most intriguing: Effects of water deprivation on behavioral variability in a free operant procedure
 (Open access) Response variability can decrease with food deprivation, but is this true of water? In 5 rats deprived of water, response variability decreased up to 24 hours of deprivation


Book publications

Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market

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


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
July 2024 Preview

Episodes will include:


BAPcast
S8E8: Ogden R. Lindsley: I Followed the Idea of the Missoula Smokejumpers with Bill Heward and Jonathan Kimball


Behavioral Observations
ABA Strategies for Safer Playground Behavior: Inside JABA 23


Functional Relations
#32- Is Private Equity Good for ABA? w/ Dr. Cody Morris


Blogs

Generally these are produced by professionals

ABAI
The Power of Preference: Enhancing Functional Communication Training Through Learner and Caregiver Collaboration
 Some tips on improving FCT


Licensing & professional organizations

CASP
ABA Clinics Aren't Daycares
 According to CASP they are developing a position statement on this

ASAN
After Budget Bill Passes, We’re Staying in the Fight


Business world

Autism services, behavioral health, etc.

$1T in healthcare cuts pass Congress
It’s behind a paywall, but do we really need more than the lede:

Legislation that virtually every corner of the healthcare sector warns will wreak havoc on providers, insurance companies and patients cleared Congress Thursday.

Meanwhile, work requirements imposed on Medicaid users have previously resulted in people wrongly being denied access. Additionally, the RBT-level position faces turnover of up to 103% per year. But on the bright side,


Accidentally behavior analysis

A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis

Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That., NYT
The author of this piece led the DSMIV task force responsible for the changes in the autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. He attributes the changes to the increase in rates of diagnosis. Does this count as figuring out the cause by September?


Continuing education

UPCOMING:


BehaviorLive is back to posting free events: 7/8, 7/15, 7/17 (SUP), 7/22, 7/23, 7/29, 7/30

The “EABA Summer School series” is happening weekly, starting 7/8, and looks interesting.


Flashback

Raehlmann – the first behaviorist?