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Employment outcomes of abstinence-contingent wage supplements for adults experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorder. 对无家可归和酒精使用障碍的成年人实行戒酒附带工资补助的就业结果。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70104

Mackenzie Denner, Forrest Toegel, August F Holtyn, Kenneth Silverman

{"title":"Employment outcomes of abstinence-contingent wage supplements for adults experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorder.","authors":"Mackenzie Denner, Forrest Toegel, August F Holtyn, Kenneth Silverman","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70104","url":null,"abstract":"Alcohol use disorder, unemployment, and homelessness are interrelated problems that are concentrated among people living in poverty. A recent clinical trial evaluating an employment-based contingency management intervention called abstinence-contingent wage supplements (ACWS) found that ACWS promoted alcohol abstinence, increased employment, and reduced poverty among unemployed adults experiencing homelessness and alcohol use disorder. This secondary analysis evaluated employment and poverty outcomes during the intervention for the 62 participants randomized into the ACWS group using paystubs and self-reported measures collected during the intervention. Paystub measures correlated positively with self-reported outcomes. Most ACWS participants (n = 41; 66%) obtained employment during the intervention. During the intervention, employed participants became employed in 6.0 weeks, worked at a job or training program for 15 weeks, worked 33.7 hr per week while employed or in training, and earned $1,054.31 per pay period, on average. Most employed participants earned enough income to qualify as living out of poverty for at least one pay period (80%). While employed, participants lived above the poverty level for most pay periods (79%) during the intervention. Understanding the effects of the ACWS intervention on employment and poverty may prove useful in providing targeted support to people at increased risk of poverty-related health problems.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 3","pages":"e70104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147775401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cookie-cue effects on delay discounting in binge-prone rats exposed to a restricted high-sugar diet. 饼干提示对暴露于限制高糖饮食的暴食倾向大鼠延迟折扣的影响。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70103

Morgan Musquez, Erin B Rasmussen

{"title":"Cookie-cue effects on delay discounting in binge-prone rats exposed to a restricted high-sugar diet.","authors":"Morgan Musquez, Erin B Rasmussen","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70103","url":null,"abstract":"Acute and chronic consumption of sugar-rich foods alters the probability of binge eating and reinforcement processes related to self-regulation of food intake. While delay discounting-preference for smaller, more immediate outcomes over larger, delayed ones-is linked to binge eating, the role of diet is less studied. We examined the extent to which acute food presentation (i.e., food cues) affected food delay discounting in binge-eating prone (BEP) rats exposed to chronic, but restricted, high-sugar diets. Female BEP and binge-eating-resistant rats were randomly assigned to a chronic Oreo-plus-chow diet, where 22.5% of calories came from sugar, or a chow-only diet. Delay discounting for sucrose was assessed twice: first under baseline and then followed by an acute cookie-cue condition where rats consumed a morsel of Oreo cookie immediately before the second session. Cookie cues induced higher delay discounting relative to baseline for all rats. A significant Binge Proneness × Diet interaction was observed. Binge-eating-prone rats with the chow-only diet exhibited higher delay discounting than BEP rats given the Oreo-plus-chow diet. These findings indicate that cookie cues increase delay discounting but also suggest that limited and consistent access to sugar may serve as a protective factor that decreases delay discounting in binge-prone organisms.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 3","pages":"e70103"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147775394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The freedom to choose may be an artifact of a preference for spatial location. 选择的自由可能是空间位置偏好的产物。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70098

Daniel Peng, Thomas R Zentall

{"title":"The freedom to choose may be an artifact of a preference for spatial location.","authors":"Daniel Peng, Thomas R Zentall","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.70098","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research has found that pigeons prefer to have a choice between two or more alternatives than to have no choice. The implication of this finding is that the preference for choice may be an evolved (or learned) predisposition. The purpose of the present experiment was to test the hypothesis that the preference for choice may be an artifact of bias, a preference for a terminal-link spatial location. In the present experiment, we followed the procedure used by Ono (2000) in which all terminal-link choices were followed by a reinforcer 50% of the time and in which the preference to choose would not be differentially reinforced. Three of the pigeons showed a significant initial-link preference to choose, seven pigeons were relatively indifferent between choice and no choice, and one pigeon preferred the initial-link no-choice option. Of the three pigeons that showed a significant initial-link preference to choose, two showed a strong preference for one of the terminal-link spatial locations. Further research on the preference to choose should determine whether the preference to choose is motivated by access to a particular terminal-link location rather than the more cognitive concept of freedom to choose.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 3","pages":"e70098"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147774621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A comparative analysis of experimental designs for procedural fidelity investigations 程序保真度调查实验设计的比较分析。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-03-22 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70097

Sofia Abuin, Michael Catalano Jr., Stephanie H. Jones

{"title":"A comparative analysis of experimental designs for procedural fidelity investigations","authors":"Sofia Abuin, Michael Catalano Jr., Stephanie H. Jones","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70097","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jeab.70097","url":null,"abstract":"Differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) reduces challenging behavior and increases alternative responding when implemented as designed. Deviations from treatment protocols (i.e., fidelity errors) reduce the efficacy of DRA. To understand the effects of fidelity errors during DRA, researchers have used multielement and reversal designs but have not directly compared effects of fidelity errors across designs. The present experiments compared effects of fidelity errors on DRA using reversal and multielement designs in a translational arrangement. Twelve undergraduates experienced a computer program in which alternations between DRA with 100% fidelity (DRA 100%) and DRA with 50% fidelity (DRA 50%) occurred according to both multielement and reversal designs. Six participants experienced signaled conditions (Experiment 1), and six participants experienced unsignaled conditions (Experiment 2). Results replicated previous reduced-fidelity research in that more target responding occurred during DRA 50% relative to DRA 100%. This was true regardless of design type and presence of signals. However, when DRA 50% and DRA 100% were rapidly alternated without signals, participants engaged in less target responding during DRA 50% and more target responding during DRA 100%. Implications of the present experiments include considerations related to design selection and presence of signals within multielement designs during evaluations with procedural fidelity manipulations.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147499550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Downshifts in synthesized alternative reinforcement and resurgence 合成替代强化和复苏的下降。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-03-16 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70092

Sean W. Smith, Courtney R. Mauzy IV, Beatriz E. Arroyo Antúnez, Jacqueline DeBartelo, Thanh Nguyen, Leondra J. Tyler, Emily L. Ferris, William E. Sullivan, Henry S. Roane, Andrew R. Craig

{"title":"Downshifts in synthesized alternative reinforcement and resurgence","authors":"Sean W. Smith, Courtney R. Mauzy IV, Beatriz E. Arroyo Antúnez, Jacqueline DeBartelo, Thanh Nguyen, Leondra J. Tyler, Emily L. Ferris, William E. Sullivan, Henry S. Roane, Andrew R. Craig","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70092","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jeab.70092","url":null,"abstract":"Clinicians often implement differential reinforcement of alternative behavior with synthesized alternative reinforcement, which involves the delivery of multiple, qualitatively different reinforcers contingent on a single alternative response. Previous research has demonstrated that downshifts in alternative reinforcement cause resurgence. We evaluated whether suspending one of the reinforcers from a synthesized alternative reinforcement contingency produces resurgence and compared this with the amount of resurgence when all reinforcers were suspended. First, we conducted a three-phase resurgence evaluation with three groups of rats. In Phase 1, target responding produced a single reinforcer (i.e., food or sucrose). In Phase 2, rats received two qualitatively different reinforcers (i.e., food and sucrose) contingent on alternative responding. In Phase 3, groups of rats experienced different downshifts from synthesized alternative reinforcement. Groups experienced suspension of both reinforcers (complete downshift), suspension of one reinforcer (partial downshift), or no change (no downshift). The partial downshift produced resurgence, and the complete downshift produced more resurgence than the partial downshift. Second, we conducted a follow-up analysis by implementing partial downshifts within a multiple-baseline design. The follow-up analysis provided additional support that partial downshifts in synthesized alternative reinforcement produce resurgence. We discuss both the theoretical and applied implications of these results.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147468585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Establishing emergent analogical spatiotemporal relations 建立紧急的类比时空关系。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-03-09 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70089

Luis Antonio Pérez-González, Paul Smeets

{"title":"Establishing emergent analogical spatiotemporal relations","authors":"Luis Antonio Pérez-González, Paul Smeets","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70089","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jeab.70089","url":null,"abstract":"We generated analogies based on observed spatiotemporal relations. In Experiment 1, six adults observed arbitrary stimuli in a spatiotemporal sequence (A1 followed by A2, A3, A4, A5 and then A1). Then they were taught to select the first stimulus following the sample in the presence of one contextual cue X (e.g., given A2, select A3) and to select the stimulus immediately preceding that stimulus in the presence of another contextual cue Y (e.g., given A2, select A1). Finally, they received a conditional discrimination (CD) probe with three-stimuli samples (3-SS-CD) in which the sequential relation between the first two stimuli set the occasion for selecting a comparison with the same relation to the third stimulus (A2A3 A1, select A2). Most participants demonstrated emergence. In Experiment 2, the procedure included a second set of B stimuli and a CD probe with A and B stimuli (i.e., A4, A5, B2, as sample and Bs as comparisons). All eight participants demonstrated emergence. Participants also observed new sequences with novel stimuli, without X or Y, and demonstrated emergence of the 3-SS-CD. The results demonstrated a type of analogical responding close to that observed in traditional analogy tasks and found basic learning processes involved in it.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12971623/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147390399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Behavioral economic analysis of pigeons' token accumulation and reinforcer demand in a laboratory-based token economy 基于实验室的代币经济中鸽子代币积累和强化需求的行为经济学分析。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-03-08 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70095

Haoran Wan, Lavinia Tan, Timothy D. Hackenberg

{"title":"Behavioral economic analysis of pigeons' token accumulation and reinforcer demand in a laboratory-based token economy","authors":"Haoran Wan, Lavinia Tan, Timothy D. Hackenberg","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70095","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jeab.70095","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined pigeons' token accumulation and food reinforcer demand within a token economy using a behavioral economic approach. Six pigeons were exposed to a token reinforcement procedure, in which responses on a token-production key produced tokens. When at least one token was earned, an exchange-production key became simultaneously available, and at this juncture, pigeons chose between earning tokens or producing the exchange period during which accumulated tokens could be exchanged for food reinforcers. Token accumulation was examined as a function of five economically relevant experimental variables: the token-production ratio (labor productivity), exchange-production ratio (transaction costs), token-exchange price, the number of free tokens (nonlabor income), and token-reinforcement magnitude (wage). Results revealed that token accumulation varied systematically with the token-production ratio, the exchange-production ratio, and token-reinforcement magnitude but was less affected by the token-exchange price and the number of free tokens. In addition, consistent with behavioral economic models of demand, overall food consumption decreased consistently under higher response costs regardless of whether the costs were defined in terms of tokens, exchange periods, or food. Collectively, these findings show how token reinforcement systems apply to everyday economic behaviors such as saving, spending, and demand, providing a bridge between reinforcement theory and behavioral economics.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147377886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effects of effort sequence and type of consequence in an effort discounting task 努力序列和结果类型对努力贴现任务的影响。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-03-08 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70094

Roberto Macías-Navarrete, Cristiano Valerio dos Santos

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Further evaluation of component skills that facilitate the emergence of intraverbal tacts 进一步评估促进言语内机智出现的组成技能。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-03-08 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70093

Nicole A. Pantano, Nicole M. Rodriguez, Tina M. Sidener, Jason C. Vladescu, April N. Kisamore

{"title":"Further evaluation of component skills that facilitate the emergence of intraverbal tacts","authors":"Nicole A. Pantano, Nicole M. Rodriguez, Tina M. Sidener, Jason C. Vladescu, April N. Kisamore","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70093","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jeab.70093","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying component skills necessary for the emergence of intraverbal tacts, or verbal responses under control of both a verbal and nonverbal antecedent stimulus, is important because the occasion for this skill often occurs in a child's everyday life. Previous research has begun to identify a sequence of component skills that may lead to the emergence of multiply controlled intraverbals. However, it remains unclear which component skills are necessary versus sufficient. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of teaching a subset of component skills, element tact and intraverbal categorization, to identify the skills sufficient for emergence of intraverbal tacts. A multiple-probe design was used to assess intraverbal-tact emergence for five participants diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder during pre-and post-element-tact and intraverbal-categorization teaching sessions. Emergence of intraverbal tacts was also assessed during recombinative-generalization probes. Results indicated that intraverbal tacts emerged for all participants following acquisition of element tacts and intraverbal categorizations. As no other component skills were taught, these data suggest that these component skills may be sufficient for intraverbal tact emergence. Implications for identifying necessary component skills and directions for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147377907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating effects of synchronous music reinforcement on increasing treadmill walking speed in a stepwise fashion 评价同步音乐强化对逐步提高跑步机步行速度的影响。

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Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Pub Date : 2026-03-08 DOI: 10.1002/jeab.70096

Emma J. Walker, Stephanie Howell, Claudia Reyes, Raymond G. Miltenberger, Shreeya Deshmukh, John T. Rapp, Jonathan W. Pinkston, Daniel J. Sheridan

{"title":"Evaluating effects of synchronous music reinforcement on increasing treadmill walking speed in a stepwise fashion","authors":"Emma J. Walker, Stephanie Howell, Claudia Reyes, Raymond G. Miltenberger, Shreeya Deshmukh, John T. Rapp, Jonathan W. Pinkston, Daniel J. Sheridan","doi":"10.1002/jeab.70096","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jeab.70096","url":null,"abstract":"This study evaluated the effects of synchronous music reinforcement on walking speed in a laboratory-based treadmill preparation. Thirty undergraduate students walked on a nonmotorized treadmill for a 15-min session consisting of an initial continuous music component, three synchronous reinforcement components, and a final continuous music component. During the initial continuous music component (CM 1), participants received continuous access to self-selected music, and their mean speed was used to set individualized criteria for the synchronous components. In the synchronous components, music was delivered contingent on maintaining a speed of 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 m/s above CM 1, respectively. During the final component, music was provided continuously. Results showed that 23 of 30 participants (76.7%) demonstrated schedule control by maintaining walking speed above criterion for the majority of synchronous components. Heart rate increased across components in accordance with speed requirements, and ratings of perceived exertion indicated moderate physical effort. Notably, several participants who did not demonstrate schedule control showed increased walking speed during the final continuous music component. Overall, the findings indicate that synchronous reinforcement using participant-selected music can produce stepwise increases in walking speed, supporting its potential as a socially significant and low-cost strategy to promote aerobic physical activity.","PeriodicalId":17411,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior","volume":"125 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147377928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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