The discounting paradigm has been challenged by an increasing number of studies
presenting qualitative variations in the individual discount function. Particularly, the …

The concept of response strength and the process of strengthening by reinforcement are
controversial in terms of their explanatory power. We clarify potential theoretical …

A recent discussion in this journal revolved around the issue of whether postulating internal
clocks is harmful or beneficial to scientific psychology, and how. I argue that this and other …

An accumulated body of choice research has demonstrated that choice behavior can be
understood within the context of its history of reinforcement by measuring response patterns …

We assessed whether novel praise statements could be used to (a) maintain and increase
responses with existing reinforcement histories and (b) teach a previously untaught …

The signaling perspective offers an alternative to the Skinnerian view of understanding
behavior. The signaling effects of reinforcers have predominantly been explored in the …

The present study was a translational analysis of relational density theory (RDT; Belisle &
Dixon, 2020) in evaluating relational frames that may orient and evoke prejudiced behavior …

Considerando-se as recentes discussões sobre a definição de comportamento e do modelo
de seleção por consequências conduzidas por pesquisadores brasileiros, discutimos a …

The hypothesis that response strength might be measured by persistence of responding in
the face of extinction was discredited in the 1960s because experiments showed that …

When we treat behavior within an evolutionary framework and as temporally extended flow,
two fundamental questions arise:(a) What is an organism? and (b) What is behavior? An …