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 *
3/14 Hronek, L. M., & Kestner, K. M. (2025). A human-operant evaluation of commission and omission errors during differential reinforcement of other behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70003
 In a human operant experiment, subjects were exposed to a DRO with commission or omission errors. In commission errors at 60% fidelity, responses reached a rate above baseline. In a condition where the error rate was randomized, the rates were higher than when the errors increased in a stepwise fashion


Behavior Analysis in Practice Volume 18, Issue 1 March 2025 (25 articles, 1 open access)
 Most intriguing: On the Disruptive Effects of Behavior Analysis on Behavior Analysis: The High Cost of Keeping Out Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Training
 Mark Dixon and Steve Hayes propose that ACT/RFT will permanently change behavior analysis by challenging the direct contingency model with relational frames


Behavioral Interventions *
3/11 Celik, K. and Olcay, S. (2025), The Effectiveness of Cool Versus Not Cool Procedure in Teaching Chemical Safety Skills to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Behavioral Interventions, 40: e70011. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70011
 Cool/not cool is a simple procedure wherein appropriate behaviors are labeled "cool" and inappropriate behaviors are labelled "not cool"; ironically the procedure has more evidence in its favor than does Social Stories. The authors used cool/not cool to teach 3 autistic children to be safe around chemicals, and they outperformed conventionally developing children on the skill


Perspectives on Behavior Science Volume 48, Issue 1 March 2025 (11 articles, 3 open access)
 Most intriguing: Re-Engineering the Educational System: Technology Transfer from a Behavioral Perspective


3/14 Tincani, M., Travers, J., Dowdy, A. et al. Questionable and Improved Research Practices in Single-Case Experimental Design: Initial Investigation and Findings. Perspect Behav Sci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-025-00441-9
 (Open access) The authors surveyed researchers to explore flaws and some potential improvements to single-case research designs; this table is a summary


Behavior and Social Issues
3/11 Thompson, K. The Data Resistance: Preserving Data Set Integrity During Federal Purges. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-025-00200-0
 The people who engage with AI slop on Facebook want to control the internet by deleting data because they think "the internet" is Facebook


Behavior Modification *
3/12 Scherpbier, I. C. A., Abrahamse, M. E., Mos, M. N., Lindauer, R. J. L., & Niec, L. N. (2025). Therapist Coaching in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy in the Netherlands: An Archival Lag Sequential Analysis Study. Behavior Modification, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01454455251319731
 (Open access) Parent training is more effective when it is responsive (e.g., immediate praise of parent behavior) than when it is directive (e.g., telling parents what to do)

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior *
3/12 Nas, O., Albayrak, D., & Unal, G. (2025). Of rats and robots: A mutual learning paradigm. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70004
 (Open access) The authors attempt to pair a rat and a robot to engage in cooperative tasks. In simulations, the rat and robot work together. In real life, the rats appeared not to discriminate clearly between the reward signal (robot turns right) and the punishment signal (robot turns left), and 2/8 rats did not interact with the robot


3/14 Odum, A. L., Willis-Moore, M. E., Callister, K. T., Haynes, J. M., Frye, C. C. J., Scribner, L. N., Legaspi, D. N., Da Silva, D. S., Olsen, A. L., Truscott, T. T., Alden, P. T., Bevins, R. A., Leventhal, A. M., Lee, S. T., Gomer, B., & Benninghoff, A. D. (2025). The rodent electronic nicotine delivery system: Apparatus for voluntary nose-only e-cigarette aerosol inhalation. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70005
 The authors share their blueprints for a cheap way to study nicotine intake in rats; plans are here


Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions *
3/12 Bocquillon, M., Bissonnette, S., Emond, M., & McIntosh, K. (2025). The Impact of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports on Office Discipline Referrals in Quebec Schools: A Descriptive Analysis. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10983007241312190
 PBIS was used for 3 years in 4 schools, and office referrals decreased 78%


The Psychological Record
3/12 Sbrocco, G., Harte, C. & de Rose, J.C. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Adults Derive Arbitrary Sameness Relations through Trained Opposition. Psychol Rec (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-025-00637-0
 Some authors argue that stimulus relations are explained only by equivalence, nonequivalence, and exclusion. The authors trained relations using "opposite" and "same" relations, and were able to generate equivalent relations, which they argue could not be explained by only equivalence, nonequivalence, and exclusion. Their data is here


Journal of Behavioral Education
3/11 Hurtado-Parrado, C., Coha, A. & Shawler, L.A. A Manipulation of Exercise Intensity on Academic Engagement and Stereotypy Based on Physiological Measures. J Behav Educ (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-025-09584-w
 Antecedent exercise decreases stereotypy and increases measures of engagement; the authors manipulated intensity using heart rate as a measure and found that they could get consistent effects


Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
Adding implementation support to a universal Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based school well-being intervention: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
 Schools implemented an ACT intervention with standard support or enhanced support. There was very little difference between the two groups


Book publications

Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market

Upcoming:

Using Functional Analysis in Psychotherapy, Niklas Törneke (Available now)
Handbook for Behavioral Skills Training, Edition 1, Sturmey & Maffei-Almodovar (Available now)
Ethical Decision Making in Applied Behavior Analysis, Schwartz & Kelly (Available Mar. 25, 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.)
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 302 - (ETHICS) The Ethics of Collaboration


Behavioral Observations
How Increasing Opportunities to Respond Improves Classroom Behavior: Session 293 with Todd Haydon


Blogs

Generally these are produced by professionals

OAR
Raising Autism Awareness as a Speech-Language Pathologist


Licensing & professional organizations

Profound Autism Alliance
Put Profound Autism on the Map
 Lobbying for a "Profound Autism Day"


Business world

Autism services, behavioral health, etc.

‘It’s A Complex Job’: Why There Are No Quick Fixes to the Autism Therapy Wait Time Crisis
People are the delivery mechanism of behavior analysis. Since people are expensive, private equity will never get the profits they want from behavior analysis. Here are three free ideas for private equity that are more profitable:


Accidentally behavior analysis

A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis

Reading comprehension loses out in the classroom, The Hechinger Report
Would you be surprised to find out that teachers generally do not use evidence-based practices to teach reading comprehension? In fact, some teachers don’t teach it at all. The Wing Institute is a great resource, where we found this study suggesting that explicit instruction of reading comprehension works, which is essentially Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS)


Continuing education

UPCOMING:


BehaviorLive is back to posting free events? 3/18, 3/26, 3/27


Flashback

Planarians, as seen in Perspectives on Behavior Science