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Intact modulation of response vigor in major depressive disorder
Blunted motivation is a core symptom of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Although the empirical picture is mixed, cognitive processes that can be...
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Therapy by Contingencies of Reinforcement (TCR) and Substance Dependence: A Clinical Case Presentation
Therapy by Contingencies of Reinforcement (TCR) is a behavioral therapy committed to the vision of mankind proposed by Radical Behaviorism (RB), the...
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The Association Between Prenatal Maternal Stress and Adolescent Affective Outcomes is Mediated by Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Behavioral Inhibition System Sensitivity
Prenatal maternal stress is linked to offspring outcomes; however, there is little research on adolescents, behavioral, transdiagnostic outcomes, or...
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Joseph J. Pear (1938-2022): Inventive, Innovative, Inquisitive
As a scientist, teacher, and author, Joseph J. Pear (1938–2022) made inventive and innovative contributions to the experimental analysis of behavior...
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Mitigating Racial Inequity by Addressing Racism in the Criminal Justice System: A Behavior Analytic Approach
Racial inequity in the U.S. criminal justice system is a long-standing problem that has recently garnered international attention. This article...
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The Effects of Coaching on Professionals in Related Disciplines: Using Differential Reinforcement in Treatment Sessions
This study analyzed the effects of coaching on professionals in related disciplines’ use of differential reinforcement when working with clients with...
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A Multilevel Framework for Compassionate Care in ABA: Approaches to Cultivate a Nurturing System
Applied behavior analysis (ABA) services have been shown to have empirically validated outcomes for autistic individuals and those with other...
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Understanding the development of reward learning through the lens of meta-learning
Determining how environments shape how people learn is central to understanding individual differences in goal-directed behaviour. Studies of the...
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Variable Magnitude and Frequency Financial Reinforcement is Effective at Increasing Adults’ Free-Living Physical Activity
Financial rewards can increase health behaviors, but little research has quantified the effects of different reinforcement schedules on this process....
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Two Reinforcement Contingencies that Influence Discrimination Learning in Stimulus-Fading
Stimulus-fading (SF) involves the presentation of increasingly difficult sets of discriminations arrayed along some continuum, where progress from...
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Establishment of Conditioned Reinforcement for Reading Content and Effects on Reading Achievement for Early-Elementary Students
Reading interest is suggested to be integral to reading achievement, which affects later academic performance. Using whole-interval measures of...
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PEAK Relational Training System
This chapter describes a general overview of the PEAK Relational Training System and a brief summary of the empirical and conceptual publications...
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Contrasting Accounts of Early Speech Perception and Production
Language researchers have historically either dismissed or ignored completely behavioral accounts of language acquisition while at the same time...
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Punishment in a Procedure for Rapidly Establishing Steady-State Behavior: A Replication
A straightforward approach to establishing that a stimulus functions as a punisher is to superimpose a single-alternative punishment schedule on a...
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Reliance on Episodic vs. Procedural Systems in Decision-Making Depends on Individual Differences in Their Relative Neural Efficiency
Experiential decision-making can be explained as a result of either memory-based or reinforcement-based processes. Here, for the first time, we show...
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Approach-Avoidance Assessment: Comparison and Validity of the Measures Related to Three Theories
We provide an overview of instruments related to the three most representative theories of approach-avoidance (Monni et al., in Personality and...
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Evaluating the Effects of Positive Reinforcement, Instructional Strategies, and Negative Reinforcement on Problem Behavior and Academic Performance: an Experimental Analysis
The prevalence of students with behavioral problems who also have learning problems has been reported to be as high as 50% (Glassberg et al. Behavioral...
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The Picture Exchange Communication System
The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) is a commonly implemented procedure to teach individuals with autism spectrum disorder how to...
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Individual differences of conflict monitoring and feedback processing during reinforcement learning in a mock forensic context
This study investigated individual differences of conflict monitoring (N2 component), feedback processing (feedback negativity component), and...
