Using a consistent Skinnerian perspective, Behavior Analysis and Learning: A
Biobehavioral Approach, Sixth Edition provides an advanced introduction to the principles of …

Humans have an unparalleled ability to engage in arbitrarily applicable relational
responding (AARR). One of the consequences of this ability to spontaneously combine and …

This book provides a thorough discussion of acceptance and commitment therapy or training
(ACT) and a guide for its use by behavior analysts. The book emphasizes how the …

A novel, five-term relational reasoning paradigm was employed during functional magnetic
resonance imaging to investigate neural correlates of the symbolic distance effect (SDE) …

The ability to think logically is a hallmark of human intelligence, yet our innate inferential
abilities are marked by implicit biases that often lead to illogical inference. For example …

Stimuli in equivalence classes are functionally interchangeable, and thus suggest that the
class members are equally related to each other. A growing number of experimental …

Background An essential component of cognition and language involves the formation of
new conditional relations between stimuli based upon prior experiences. Results of …

The experimental content areas represented in JEAB in its first volume (1958) and 50 years
later in Volume 87 are in many ways similar with regard to research on schedules of …

The purpose of the current experiment was to replicate and to extend the findings of the
study by Arntzen (2006). We investigated the probability of responding in accord with …

When one is asked to select a label for a novel object from a given group of labels that
includes both novel and familiar labels, one tends to choose a novel label. In other words …