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Effects of advance notice on transition‐related pausing in pigeons
Effects of advance notice on transition‐related pausing in pigeons
Transitions between tasks can produce behavioral disruptions that are characterized as problematic. Advance notice, a proc...
Merger and expansion of equivalence classes via meaningful stimuli
Merger and expansion of equivalence classes via meaningful stimuli
The present experiments evaluated the effect of meaningful stimuli on the inclusion of a set of extra-experimental meaning...
Phase duration and resurgence
Phase duration and resurgence
Resurgence, the recurrence of responding due to a worsening of reinforcement conditions for current behavior, is a prevale...
Modeling choice across time: Effects of response–reinforcer discriminability
Modeling choice across time: Effects of response–reinforcer discriminability
This experiment asks whether timing is affected by animals’ discrimination of response-reinforcer contingencies, an...
Effects of immediate‐reinforcement training on delay discounting behavior in rats
Effects of immediate‐reinforcement training on delay discounting behavior in rats
Chronic exposure to delayed reinforcement has been shown to increase choice for larger, later reinforcement in a subsequen...
Hazard function effects on promoting self‐control in variable interval time‐based interventions in rats
Hazard function effects on promoting self‐control in variable interval time‐based interventions in rats
The present experiments investigated properties of time-based interventions used to increase self-control. Rats received i...
Dreading the pain of others? Altruistic responses to others' pain underestimate dread
Dreading the pain of others? Altruistic responses to others' pain underestimate dread
A dislike of waiting for pain, aptly termed ‘dread’, is so great that people will increase pain to avoid del...
Behavioral ephemera, difficult discriminations, and behavioral stability
Behavioral ephemera, difficult discriminations, and behavioral stability
Every species possesses abilities for successfully interacting with its environment. These result from phylogeny. In the l...
Examining effects of training duration on humans' resurgence and variability using a novel touchscreen procedure
Examining effects of training duration on humans' resurgence and variability using a novel touchscreen procedure
Resurgence occurs when a previously reinforced and then extinguished target response increases due to reducing/eliminating...
Nonsimultaneous stimulus presentations and their role in listener naming
Nonsimultaneous stimulus presentations and their role in listener naming
Previous studies on naming have presented the object and its name simultaneously during both training and testing, and thu...
The selective action of Cfunc control
The selective action of Cfunc control
According to relational frame theory Cfunc stimuli select which stimulus properties are transformed via derived stimulus r...
A quantitative analysis of accuracy, reliability and bias in judgements of functional analyses
A quantitative analysis of accuracy, reliability and bias in judgements of functional analyses
Functional analysis can be considered a diagnostic assessment that behavior analysts use to determine behavioral function....
The Extinction Burst: Impact of reinforcement time and level of analysis on measured prevalence
The Extinction Burst: Impact of reinforcement time and level of analysis on measured prevalence
Despite widespread belief in the extinction burst as a common occurrence, relatively little empirical work has focused dir...
Evolutionary theory prediction: Response rate as a joint function of reinforcement rate and reinforcer magnitude
Evolutionary theory prediction: Response rate as a joint function of reinforcement rate and reinforcer magnitude
Artificial organisms (AOs) animated by an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics (ETBD) worked on concurrent interval sc...
Comparing stimulus preference and response force in a conjugate preparation
Comparing stimulus preference and response force in a conjugate preparation
Researchers used a conjugate preparation to evaluate how response force changed based on participants' preferences for vis...
Design and evaluation of a touchscreen apparatus for operant research with pigeons
Design and evaluation of a touchscreen apparatus for operant research with pigeons
We developed a touchscreen apparatus for pigeons and conducted a series of experiments that assessed its utility for free-...
Zebrafish choice behavior is sensitive to reinforcer rate, immediacy, and magnitude ratios
Zebrafish choice behavior is sensitive to reinforcer rate, immediacy, and magnitude ratios
Behavioral flexibility has, in part, been defined by choice behavior changing as a function of changes in reinforcer payof...
Behavioral economics and safe sex: Examining condom use decisions from a reinforcer pathology framework
Behavioral economics and safe sex: Examining condom use decisions from a reinforcer pathology framework
Condom use substantially reduces unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. While condom availability is a ...
Corrigendum to Renewal and resurgence phenomena generalize to Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Corrigendum to Renewal and resurgence phenomena generalize to Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Robinson, T. P., & Kelley, M. E. (2020). Renewal and resurgence phenomena generalize to Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Jour...
A zero‐bounded model of operant demand
A zero‐bounded model of operant demand
Contemporary approaches for evaluating the demand for reinforcers use either the Exponential or the Exponentiated model of...
Purchase task sensitivity to drug and nondrug reinforcers in opioid‐agonist treatment patients
Purchase task sensitivity to drug and nondrug reinforcers in opioid‐agonist treatment patients
The behavioral economics of substance abuse has been increasingly recognized as a method of determining the value of abuse...