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 *
3/25 Guinness, K. E., & Feil, E. G. (2025). A digital intervention package to teach rapport-building skills to caregivers of children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70004
Using some digital platform that one author has a stake in, parents learned to prioritize rapport-building in play with their children
Behavior Analysis in Practice
3/26 Kaplan-Reimer, H., Cassella, M.D., Schanke, M.R. et al. From Aversive, Toward Appetitive: A Behavioral Conceptual Analysis of Compassion. Behav Analysis Practice (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01046-z
The authors attempt to operationalize "compassion" in treatment
Behavior Modification *
3/28 Bianchi, J. M., Ramírez-Cruz, J. C., Fierro Jimenez, R. A., Cruz Navarrete, C. A., & Avalos Latorre, M. L. (2025). Psychometric Properties of the Reward Probability Index in a Mexican Sample. Behavior Modification, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01454455251326880
(Open access) The Reward Probability Index works in Mexico too
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior * Volume 123, Issue 2 (17 articles, 4 open access)
Most intriguing: Discrimination of highly similar stimuli as members of different equivalence classes
(Open access) Similar stimuli are best presented together when teaching discrimination between very similar targets
3/25 Derrenbacker, K. E., Sullivan, W. E., Baxter, E. L., Arroyo, B., Roane, H. S., Agnew, C. N., Koegel, M., & Craig, A. R. (2025). An analysis of renewal following fading of reinforcer type. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70007
Two sources of reinforcement (O1 and O2) in rats were used to model renewal, when extinguished behavior returns due to receiving reinforcement. When forward fading (O2 only, fading in O1) or backward fading (O2 faded in), renewal was mitigated. When rats received just O2, then extinction, then O1, renewal was strongest
Education and Treatment of Children
3/26 Ampuero, M.E., Kinkade, E.M. & Ratkos, T. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Behavioral Skills Training on the Implementation of an Icon Exchange Communication Intervention by Preservice Educators. Educ. Treat. Child. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-025-00153-4
(Open access) BST was used to teach teachers how to implement AAC devices with kids; the training worked
The Psychological Record
3/28 Tomlinson, G.M., Oliveira, J.S.C.D., Reinhardt, G. et al. Establishment and Maintenance of Stimulus Classes Following Equivalence-Based and Comprehensive Training. Psychol Rec (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-025-00638-z
61 college students were put in different stimulus equivalence groups. They were essentially all equally efficient, but one condition (linear series) showed a loss of transitive and equivalence relations
Book publications
Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market
Upcoming:
Handbook of Operant Behavioral Economics, Reed, Kaplan & Gilroy (Eds.) (Available Jul. 1, 2025)
Ethical Decision Making in Applied Behavior Analysis, Schwartz & Kelly (Available now)
New this quarter:
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:
Podcasts
ABA Inside Track
Episode 305 (TRAUMA-INFORMED) Ableism and the Medical Model of Disability
Blogs
Generally these are produced by professionals
ABAI
Shakespeare’s Alchemy
David Palmer on Shakespeare
Stronger Together: Communities Have Power!
OAR
A Taste of Adulthood from the Autistic Point of View
Licensing & professional organizations
CASP
Evidence About ABA Treatment for Young Children with Autism: The Impact of Treatment Intensity on Outcomes
A good summary
ASAN
ASAN Appalled by Hiring of Quack David Geier for HHS Study
Perfect headline, no notes
BACB
March newsletter
The BACB is abandoning all references to “DEI” in their coursework requirements, proposed continuing education changes, etc. Are they doing this because it is the right thing to do, or perhaps because they believe that DEI was a mistake? No; they admit that they don’t want the scrutiny of the federal government on their accreditation. Whatever your feelings on DEI, this is cowardly.
Business world
Autism services, behavioral health, etc.
Roper Technologies to Buy ABA Software Company CentralReach for $1.65 Billion and ABA Software Startup Motivity Raises $27M
ABA is nearly reaching parity with the medical field. We here at the Fixed Interval cannot wait until we have our very own Epic: a money-printing near-monopoly that everyone uses and hates.
Accidentally behavior analysis
A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis
Still Amusing Ourselves, Slate
In a “review” of a newly-popular book published in 1985, there is a mention of what the author thinks of television for kids:
[Neil] Postman, a professor of education at New York University, took particular issue with Sesame Street, for example, because he felt that it taught children to think and learn using a format adapted from TV commercials.
Seems uncharitable…except one Ogden Lindsley had much the same feeling in 1990:
I suddenly realized that Sesame Street was a danger to effective education. It produced absolutely no viewer performance, yet pretended to educate. Mr. Rogers' television show asks the viewers to do things at least once or twice each show.
Continuing education
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