Recent executive orders have led some applied behavior analysis (ABA) providers to
interpret themselves as “essential personnel” during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article …

Resurgence is the return of a previously reinforced response as conditions worsen for an
alternative response, such as the introduction of extinction, reductions in reinforcement, or …

Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) has a long history as a behavioral
treatment. The term has usually been defined in a manner that suggests one form of …

Schools across the country closed their doors during the COVID-19 pandemic. These
measures impacted all students, as schools, educators, and families grappled with the …

In the clinic, differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) often involves
programming extinction for destructive behavior while reinforcing an alternative form of …

Following successful treatment in which problem behavior is reduced, it may reemerge as a
function of changes in contextual stimuli or the worsening of reinforcement conditions for an …

Resurgence refers to a behavioral process in which a recent response is extinguished (or
reinforcement conditions worsen) and a previously extinguished response recurs. In …

Most studies examine treatment relapse by programming contextual changes with perfect
treatment integrity or with omission errors in the absence of a context change (ie, all …

Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing platform that provides researchers
with the potential for obtaining behavioral data for very little cost. However, the extent to …

In two laboratory experiments, we examined whether stimuli paired with alternative
reinforcers could mitigate resurgence of a previously reinforced target response with …