Scholarly publications
Includes peer reviewed journals within and adjacent to behavior analysis
(Starred journals available to BCBAs through the BACB portal)
Journal of Organizational Behavior Management *
7/24 Goomas, D. T., & Ludwig, T. D. (2026). Missing antecedent on a voice-directed order selection workflow at a distribution center. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061.2026.2705187
In a behavior chain at a warehouse, a voice prompt over headphones cued workers on which products to load onto trucks. However, the prompts could come from different order sheets, resulting in frequent errors. An initial prompt was added to reference the correct order sheet, which eliminated errors
Behavior Modification *
7/19 Thériault, L., Kik, A.-M., Carrier, K., Romain, A. J., & Lecomte, T. (2026). Obstacles and Facilitators to Healthy Dietary Habits in Individuals with a Psychotic Disorder: A Systematic Review. Behavior Modification, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01454455261449783
(Open access) In a literature review that covered the past 20 years of qualitative or quantitative research about the diets of adults with psychotic disorders, the authors found 21 articles. Findings include barriers and facilitators to healthy eating; issues that are both barriers and facilitators include social context
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior *
7/19 Bradshaw, C. M. (2026). In praise of the hyperbola. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 126(1), e70126. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70126
A discussion of the hyperbolic properties of reinforcers, and the factors that can operate as separate hyperbolae
Myerson, J., Green, L., Vanderveldt, A., & Wan, H. (2026). Delay–probability asymmetry in discounting: An anomaly in multiattribute choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 126(1), e70123. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70123
In comparing tasks that manipulate probability and delay, delay appeared to be more consequential, implying that delay may be the more important variable in designing interventions
7/24 Rodriguez Perez, M., Hone, L. S. E., Almog, S., McVay, M. A., Dallery, J., & Berry, M. S. (2026). Hypothetical food purchase tasks and eating behavior: A systematized review and future directions. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 126(2), e70132. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70132
In a literature review, 14 studies were identified that used hypothetical food purchasing tasks. Food tasks have had similar results as other purchase tasks, and appear to have convergent validity with other measures of food value
The Analysis of Verbal Behavior
7/20 Hussain-Passage, K., Nicholson, K., Passage, M.J. et al. Leveraging Stimulus Equivalence to Teach Piano to Autistic Children. Analysis Verbal Behav (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-026-00230-8
The authors taught more discriminable notes, having students match them to notation and corresponding letters. While the students learned and maintained these skills, they did not acquire "perfect pitch" or untrained notes
Education and Treatment of Children
7/20 Zhou, L., Hu, X., Hu, X. et al. Teaching Subject–Verb–Object Sentences to Students with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities through Matrix Training. Educ. Treat. Child. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-026-00188-1
The authors used matrix training to teach sentences to Chinese students with disabilities, finding that the training was effective in acquisition of trained sentences and generative sentences
7/22 Smit, A.K., Hoekstra, P.J. & de Bildt, A. Online Course for Preservice Teachers about Inclusive Teaching for Autistic Children. Educ. Treat. Child. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-026-00186-3
59 preservice teachers took an online course about ASD. They liked the course but it didn't appear to change self-report measures
The Psychological Record
7/20 Hawkins, E., Hewett, K. & Baroni, V. Investigating the Effects of the Echoic on the Emergence of Subtypes of Naming in Autistic Children. Psychol Rec (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-026-00693-0
It appears that, when a child is tested for a subtype of naming ("unidirectional naming (UniN), bidirectional naming (BiN), incidental unidirectional naming (Inc-UniN), and incidental bidirectional naming (Inc-BiN)") and they do not have that type of naming in their repertoire, re-running the test with a full echoic prompt can induce the subtype of naming without further training. The authors propose using echoics before more complex strategies
Yamaguchi, M., Yusunoki, D. & Matsuda, S. Effects of Covert Repetition Instruction and Vocal Blocking Procedure on the Acquisition and Maintenance of Tact in Foreign Languages. Psychol Rec (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-026-00694-z
10 undergrads were taught Spanish-language tacts under two conditions: covert repetition, wherein they were instructed to subvocally repeat the tacts during instruction; or vocal blocking, wherein they engaged in a competing vocal response. The covert repetition condition was superior for acquiring tacts
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
7/20 Lund, S., Monaghan, P. & Hartley, C. Differential Effects of Object Colour Variation on Word Learning in Autistic and Neurotypical Children. J Autism Dev Disord (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-026-07443-9
(Open access) Autistic and neurotypical children engaged in a naming task where they learned new objects, then were tested on the same objects in different colors (e.g., red bike is "bike," then shown a black bike). Autistic kids outperformed neurotypical kids on this task
7/21 Wicker, A.L., Sutherland, V., Paez, E. et al. Access to Autism Behavioral Therapy Services: An Analysis of 2022–2023 National Survey of Children’s Health Data. J Autism Dev Disord (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-026-07457-3
Rural and low-education households had less access to therapy
Journal of Behavioral Education
7/24 M. Fienup, D., S. Falcomata, T. Single-Subject Designs are Based on Baseline Logic and Controlling for Threats to Internal Validity, Even if the Graph Doesn’t Adhere to “Quality Indicators”: A Brief Commentary. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09648-5
A brief commentary with a long title, the authors argue that single-subject design can be effective even without specific textbook-level quality indicators
Foley, K., Gavoni, P., Zane, T. et al. The Effects of Assignment Choice on Quiz Performance and Student Experience in Online Graduate Education. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09645-8
For grad students (presumably at Endicott), a weekly "proof of reading" assignment was either a choice between a quiz or written summary, or no choice. Quiz scores were unaffected by choice condition, though students professed a preference for the choice condition
7/25 Zhou, K., Chen, R., Liu, X. et al. Simplifying Car Washing Skills Learning Path: Strategies and Applications for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09646-7
Is training disabled people to wash cars helping them to operate in a capitalist system, saving them from homelessness and starvation? Or is it enforcing a systemic hierarchy that virtually enslaves people in meaningless labor? Yes
European Journal of Behavior Analysis
7/23 Carnerero, J. J., Fernández-Varone, M., & Pérez-González, L. A. (2026). Learning and emergence of tacting auditory stimuli in children with autism spectrum disorder. European Journal of Behavior Analysis, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15021149.2026.2691491
(Open access) 3 children were trained to tact auditory stimuli by showing an image of the object which makes the sound concurrently with the sound and the name of the object. All 3 learned to tact the sound alone, and 2/3 generalized the skill to new tacts
Book publications
Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market
Upcoming:
Nonlinear Contingency Analysis: Going Beyond Cognition and Behavior in Clinical Practice, Layng, Andronis, Codd, Abdel-Jalil (Eds.) (Nov 2026)
Case Studies and Applications in Nonlinear Contingency Analysis, Abdel-Jalil & Linnehan (Eds.) (Oct 2026)
WAVE Prosocial Assessment and Curriculum, Rehfeldt & Dixon (Pre-order)
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
Podcasts
ABA Inside Track
Inequitable Discipline w. Dr. Mawule Sevon
Behavioral Observations
What is Facilitated Communication? BOP Rewind | Session 199/336 | Jason Travers
Blogs
Generally these are produced by professionals
ABAI
Overdoses – A Matter of Context and Circumstance
This blog was posted 8 years ago, when the ABAI blog appeared to have started. It highlights an interesting problem with drug addiction and treatment: varying environmental effects that we might term SDs, or conditioned stimuli (CS). Treatment that removes the person from their home environment, treats them, and returns them to the home environment will fail to address relevant stimuli
Licensing & professional organizations
BACB
BACB Portal Updates and Known Issues
The new portal is only moderately broken
BF Skinner Foundation
2026 Skinner Session now open for registration
Business world
Autism services, behavioral health, etc.
HHS Defers More Than $1 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California, Minnesota Pending Review of High-Risk Claims in Crackdown on Fraud but also White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal government funding is now dependent on the whims of a chatbot, presumably Grok
Accidentally behavior analysis
A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon calls for elementary students to be put on ‘pathway’ to become plumbers, The Independent
“We need electricians and plumbers and we need HVAC operators and data engineers, all of that,” she added. “So let’s provide the kind of education for them, get them into pathways towards that education, starting even in elementary, middle schools, high schools.”
Plumbers are valuable. But are you comfortable identifying “elementary”-age kids and starting them on what sounds like an entirely separate education track? Has education-as-public-good been completely tethered to capitalism?
Continuing education
UPCOMING:
BehaviorLive has free events: 7/27 (SUP), 7/29
Flashback
Zig Engelmann on “student failure”
Some students fail, but somehow teachers never fail. Student failure is evidence that they cannot learn, but somehow never evidence that the teacher did not teach. When the student fails, “perhaps they weren’t cut out for school,” and they can be sorted into a menial labor track. Consider what Zig Engelmann would have said about Linda McMahon in 1992:
