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 *
11/3 Frank-Crawford, M. A., Hagopian, L. P., Schmidt, J. D., Rooker, G. W., Piersma, D. E., & Benson, R. (2025). Application of the augmented competing stimulus assessment to identify and establish competing self-restraint items. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70040
(Open access) Some people engage in self-restraint; the authors tested competing items, and for all subjects they found an item that reduced self-restraint and SIB by at least 80%
Behavior Analysis in Practice
11/5 Sarilho, C., Hübner, M., Bernardy, J.L. et al. CAIS Contributions to Free and Quality Access to Behavioral Interventions in Brazil. Behav Analysis Practice (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-025-01119-z
CAIS is a 20 year-old organization that uses ABA to serve kids and families for free
Journal of Organizational Behavior Management *
11/4 Harvey, M. T., & Kennedy, C. H. (2025). Nonconcurrent multiple baseline designs for applied research in organizational behavior management. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061.2025.2581028
A suggestion to use noncurrent multiple baselines (across departments, or teams, etc.) in OBM
Behavioral Interventions *
11/4 Ferris, Emily L., Nicole M. Rodriguez, Ryan Thomas, and James E. Gehringer. 2025. “ Using Fully Immersive Virtual Reality to Teach Safe Pedestrian Skills to Autistic Children,” Behavioral Interventions: e70054. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70054
4 autistic children who tolerated a VR helmet and an "omnidirectional treadmill" learned the targeted skills. This seems like a nice alternative to "the outdoors"
Perspectives on Behavior Science
11/4 Donohue, H.E., Foster, B.A. & Dallery, J. A Scoping Review of Cultural Variables in Contingency Management for Substance Use Disorder. Perspect Behav Sci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-025-00480-2
In a literature review, the authors find that it is likely that contingency management is effective across demographics, but that it has rarely been directly tailored for specific cultural variables
11/5 Bruzek, J.L., Witts, B.N. A Call for Standards: Identifying Demographic and Methodological Variables in Infant Behavior-Analytic Research. Perspect Behav Sci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-025-00479-9
The authors examine behavior analytic research on infants, finding that demographic information is unevenly reported
Behavior and Social Issues
11/5 Alavosius, M., Rakos, R. & Krispin, J. Recent Books on Sustainability: New Ideas from Education, Economics, and Psychology. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-025-00234-4
Ah yes, books
Education and Treatment of Children
11/3 Davis, R.E., Grasley-Boy, N.M., Scheibel, G. et al. Envisioning the Future of Community-Engaged Research at Juniper Gardens Children’s Project and Beyond. Educ. Treat. Child. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-025-00165-0
Perspectives of recent scholars
11/7 Iovannone, R., Crosland, K., Baton, E. et al. Empowering Educators: A Pilot Study of a Modular-Based Class-Wide Intervention to Support Teachers of Students with Emotional Disturbance. Educ. Treat. Child. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43494-025-00171-2
16 teachers used evidence-based modules and received coaching, and all saw student behavior improve
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
11/5 Over and Undergeneralization of Behavior Analytic Terminology and their Influence on the Trouble with Terms
(In press) In a survey, behavior analysts ranked "ABA" definitions as being most aligned with behavior analytic principles, with "pseudo-ABA" being second, followed by ACT. This might be evidence that ACT is underrepresented, and that jargon is overvalued
Book publications
Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market
Upcoming:
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)
Navigating Ethics in Behavior Analysis: Dealing with Gray Areas, Carr (Pre-order)
AIM Navigators, Dixon (Pre-order)
Recent:
2025
Podcasts
ABA Inside Track
November 2025 Preview
Episodes will include:
Difficulty During Transitions (Fall 2025 Listener Choice)
Instructional Design for Business Training w/ Dr. Doug Johnson
Water Safety Skills
All Things Behavior
Social Validity and Contemporary Applied Behavior Analysis with Tim Vollmer and Janae' Pendergrass
Blogs
Generally these are produced by professionals
ABAI
A Wonderful World of Animal Verbal Behavior
The ABAI blogs have a "thumbs up" feature (that we think was probably Tom Critchfield's idea). The blogs have 0-2 thumbs up, generally. This one has, at time of writing, 69
Let’s Talk About Erectile Dysfunction! Saying, Doing, and the Quest for Speedier Behavioral Research
69 thumbs up!
Teaching Behavior Principles: The Best Parts Weren’t Planned
Playing PORTL
PFA
Cultural Responsiveness in Action: Ana Maria Méndez Vides and ABA Guatemala
A 26-minute video of PFA/SBT in Guatemala
Session 314: Live from HABA 2025 – The Impact of the Hawaii DOE and The CARE Project
A Behavioral Observations podcast that discusses PFA/SBT being used statewide in Hawaii
OAR
Breaking the Silence: Confronting Autism Stigma in Schools
Written by a high school student
Licensing & professional organizations
ASAT
Review of Effective Teaching Procedures: Instructor Therapist Performance Quality Checklists
ASAN
ASAN comment on FDA petition to add autism warning to Tylenol
Business world
Autism services, behavioral health, etc.
Arizona Autism to Lay Off Nearly 3,000 Employees, Converts Some to Contractors
Such a move eliminates the company’s many obligations to employees and to pay certain taxes. Together, these include paying taxes for Medicare and Social Security, providing health care benefits, following minimum wage laws, overtime laws and workers’ compensation insurance payments.
If you want to work for the Uber of human services, their website claims they’re hiring!
Accidentally behavior analysis
A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis
The dangerous illusion of ‘peer-to-peer’ review for prior authorization, STAT News
The arbitrary, unclear, and unfair peer-to-peer requirements imposed by insurance companies are a way to take advantage of physicians’ busy schedules at the expense of patient health.
We are reminded of a classic (9 year-old) article, wherein two Cigna employees discuss their occasionally absurd end of review calls.
Continuing education
UPCOMING:
BehaviorLive is back to posting free events: 11/11 (SUP), 11/19, 11/20 (SUP), 11/25
Flashback
Behaviorism in 1884
