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 *
 9/3 Bann, J. P., & Morris, S. L. (2026). A component analysis of evocative and reinforcing variables influencing challenging behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 59(4), e70085. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70085
 The authors compared a component FA to a synthesized FA; for most participants, the component FA predicted functions, even when they were synthesized or undifferentiated 


Behavior Analysis in Practice
 9/1 Voulgarakis, H.M. Correction: Ethical and Regulatory Investigations in ABA: A Qualitative Analysis of Practitioner Responses and Outcomes. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01241-6
 (Open access) In a banner month for corrections, this author may have made false Medicaid claims (according to the state of Connecticut, he was personally billing for supervision while not present for up to 3 years), and was investigated and disciplined by the BACB (though this does not appear to be logged on the BACB website). Furthermore, if you reference the title of the paper being corrected, he wrote about "ethical and regulatory investigations in ABA," so those disclosures are relevant 


9/3 Martin Loya, M.R., Mello, M., Vejnoska, S. et al. Exploring Facilitators and Barriers to Research Participation in ABA Agencies: Early Insights from the PALMS Project. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01216-7
 (Open access) The PALMS project is a federally-funded comparison of ABA with Early Start Denver Model (ESDM). The authors found that participating agencies have typical challenges (turnover, etc.) and require ongoing and reciprocal support 


9/4 Brown, K.R., Pence, S.T., Tamrazi, S. et al. Participatory Development of Research Questions on Caregiver Adherence to Severe Behavior Interventions. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01225-6
 (Open access) The authors conducted interviews to identify barriers to stakeholder treatment adherence; they identified 102 variables organized into 8 categories. They further identified over 40 topics for research 


Sheriff, I., Britwum, K. & Garcia-Zambrano, S. Teaching Graduate Students to Use Culturally Responsive Repertoires During Reinforcer Interviewing. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01229-2
 The authors used remote BST to train 3 grad students to administer the RAISD while using culturally-responsive framing. Correct responding increased from 15-35% to 100%, and generalized to real interviews 


Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice
 Loza Hernández, M., Valdez-Nuguid, M., Anderson-Piles, H., Kupzyk, S., & Halbur, M. (2026). The efficacy of teaching parents of children with autism effective instruction delivery skills. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/bar0000343
 (Their website stinks and it's impossible to tell when articles are posted) The authors used BST to teach effective instruction delivery to 2 Spanish-speaking families. Both learned the skills and generalized them from a clinic to the home; 2/2 kids increased compliance and 1/2 increased play engagement 


Behavioral Interventions *
 9/5 LeBlanc, Linda A., Brent A. Kaplan, Kelsie Thompson, Alec Sweatman, and Charna Mintz. 2026. “ Changes in Curriculum Assessment Scores Associated With Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention in a Routine Clinical Care Setting,” Behavioral Interventions: e70142. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70142
 The authors, all employed by Action Behavior Centers, retrospectively used data from the VB-MAPP and compared it to Vineland scores. After an average of 1.5 years, VB-MAPP scores increased about 70 points, with the largest gains happening in the first 6 months. Vineland scores correlated with the VB-MAPP most in the "communication domain, adaptive behavior composite, and socialization domain" 


Rocheleau, Amaya M., and Cynthia P. Livingston. 2026. “ Comparison of Caregiver and Child Mand Modality Preferences Using Sequential Extinction During Functional Communication Training,” Behavioral Interventions: e70136. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70136
 (Open access) With 3 participants, the authors tested client and parent preference for 4 communication modalities: speech, AAC, gesture, and picture exchange. After a preference assessment, they used extinction and instructions to establish their second-place preference. Caregiver preference shifted for 2/3 participants after they viewed their child's data 


Perspectives on Behavior Science
 8/31 Brown, K.R., Pence, S.T. Caregiver Adherence in Behavior Interventions: An Evaluation of Definition and Measurement. Perspect Behav Sci (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40614-026-00511-6
 (Open access) The authors interviewed 24 researcher-practitioners, who all agreed that "adherence" is important but couldn't entirely agree on what it is. Most agreed that it was implementing a treatment with fidelity for some amount of time. The authors call for a thorough concept analysis of "treatment adherence" 


Behavior and Social Issues
 9/1 Lopez, V., Rafacz, S., Price, P. et al. A Procedural Analysis of Taste Exposure with Young Children. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-026-00268-2
 "Taste exposure" (repeatedly trying small amounts of non-preferred food) can increase preferences, but there are no guidelines for the practice. In a randomized experiment, kids were seated alone or in groups, and tried vegetables either two or four days per week. All groups increased consumption, but more exposures per week may be superior 


Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior *
 9/3 Kim, E., Kurnellas, R., Grunevski, S., Felton, J., & Yi, R. (2026). A novel method to assess delay discounting indicates greater ambivalence for delayed rewards. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 126(2), e70140. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70140
 (Open access) 105 participants used a 100-point scale to indicate degree of preference. The authors believe that low levels of delay discounting may indicate ambivalence, and that preference for delayed reward may indicate ambivalence 


The Psychological Record
 9/1 Guerin, B. The Answers are Off the Page: Social Contextual Analysis is Only There to Assist Observation. Psychol Rec (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-026-00695-y
 Guerin argues that behavior analysis suffers due to deprioritizing naturalistic observation 


Journal of Behavioral Education
 9/5 Akyıldız, B., Kesici, Ş. & Ak, M. Relational Frame Theory–Informed, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy–Integrated Classroom Psychoeducation for Adolescent Test Anxiety: A Preliminary Quasi-Experimental Evaluation. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09652-9
 In a quasi-experimental design, they authors implemented a 6-session ACT/RFT intervention in a classroom to reduce test anxiety. It appeared to be effective but they recommend larger randomized trials


Fuhrmann-Knowles, A., Linnehan, A., Abdel-Jalil, A. et al. A Case Example of User Testing in the Development of an Instructional Tool. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09653-8
 The authors describe their process of user testing (formative assessment), wherein they field tested instructional material with 15 practitioners to see if their materials are effective. This is generally recommended in curriculum design (Zig Engelmann & Bob Mager both field tested all of their materials) 


Acta Comportamentalia Vol. 34 Num. 3 (9 articles, 9 open access) (articles in Spanish or Portuguese; abstracts in English)
 Most intriguing: Ethical-Political Dimensions of the Concept of Coercion: An Alternative to Sidman's Proposal (1989)
 Sidman discussed aversive control by framing it as a matter of negative reinforcement, positive punishment, and negative punishment. This author suggests aversive control is more closely related to power imbalances, and suggests adopting a new framework for understanding aversive control. We're not convinced, but it's interesting anyway


Book publications

Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market

Upcoming:
An Ethics-Focused Guide for BCBA® Fieldwork: Shaping the Future, Solley & DePriest (Feb 2027)
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
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


Recent:
2025
2024
2023


Podcasts

ABA Inside Track
September Preview 2026
Episodes will include:


Functional Relations
#46 - Pavlovian Conditioning in the Classroom? w/ Dr. Rick Colombo


Blogs

Generally these are produced by professionals

OAR
College Resources for Autistic Students
 Including a menstrual health assessment 


People With Disabilities Say Medicaid Income Limits Can Stifle Career Advancement
 People have to choose between a job and healthcare 


Licensing & professional organizations

ASAN
Take IACCtion and demand better! 


Business world

Autism services, behavioral health, etc.

They're looking for a special needs school for their daughter. But no one will take her is a story in USA Today about kids with severe behaviors whose families are looking for appropriate school placement, including residential. But of the few that exist and are willing to accept these kids, sometimes waitlists are years long. Additionally, most teachers in conventional public schools aren’t comfortable adapting instruction for kids with special needs and are not confident that their colleagues can. Private equity to the rescue!


Accidentally behavior analysis

A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis

This paper changed my life: Embracing an early model for naturalistic neuroscience, The Transmitter
The researcher interviewed here highlights a 1992 paper that showed that, in baby zebrafinch, birdsong induced gene expression. This echoes the behavioral findings of Zing Yang Kuo, who reported in the 1960s that birds do not necessarily fly until they are subject to environmental pressures (e.g., the approach of a predator). 


Continuing education

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Flashback

A journal of posterized dunks