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Perspectives on Behavioral Complexity: Introduction to the Special Issue. 行为复杂性的观点：特刊导论。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2026-03-16 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-026-00500-9

Carol Pilgrim, Timothy D Hackenberg

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Behavior and Cumulative Cultural Evolution. 行为与累积文化进化。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2026-03-12 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-026-00496-2

Sigrid S Glenn, Maria E Malott

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Fruits of Consensus: Continued Improvement in the Analysis of Verbal Behavior. 共识的成果：言语行为分析的持续改进。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2026-02-18 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-025-00489-7

Manish Vaidya

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Context, Consequence, Coincidence, and Cumulative Cultural Evolution: Linking Creativity and Culturo-Behavioral Phenomena Together Using Systems Principles and Processes of Selection by Consequences. 背景、结果、巧合和累积文化进化：利用系统原则和结果选择过程将创造力和文化行为现象联系在一起。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2026-01-29 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-025-00492-y

Jonathan V Krispin

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Relational Databases for Behavior Science. 行为科学关系型数据库。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2025-12-02 eCollection Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-025-00486-w

Paul L Soto

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Teleological Properties of Operant Behavior. 操作行为的目的论性质。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2025-11-24 eCollection Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-025-00481-1

Filipe Lazzeri, Diego Zilio

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Towards a Functional Account of Mass-Shooting: Prediction and Influence of Violent Behavior. 大规模枪击事件的功能性解释：暴力行为的预测与影响。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2025-11-24 eCollection Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-025-00483-z

James N Meindl, Jonathan W Ivy, Diana M Delgado, Lindsey Swafford

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Reconstructing RFT through the Lens of the Interbehavioral Field: What is a Relational Frame Anyway? 从交互行为场的视角重构RFT：什么是关系框架？

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2025-11-24 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-025-00485-x

Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Linda J Hayes, Colin Harte, Mitch Fryling

{"title":"Reconstructing RFT through the Lens of the Interbehavioral Field: What is a Relational Frame Anyway?","authors":"Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Linda J Hayes, Colin Harte, Mitch Fryling","doi":"10.1007/s40614-025-00485-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40614-025-00485-x","url":null,"abstract":"The recent resurgence of Kantorian interbehavioral psychology in the context of relational frame theory (RFT) has prompted a reevaluation of RFT's core concepts through an interbehavioral lens. Although RFT acknowledges its Kantorian roots, recent works have called for a more serious consideration of interbehaviorism in the context of developing the theory towards a more complete analysis of the complexity of human language and cognition. In particular, the current article aims to explore the alignment between the RFT concept of the relational frame and the interbehavioral interpretation of psychological happenings. To this end, the relational frame is dissected to clarify (mentalistic) misconceptions of RFT, and is then compared with interbehavioral constructs such as stimulus and response functions, substitute stimulation, and interbehavioral history. The integration of these perspectives suggests that RFT may benefit from a field-based approach to experimental and applied research. We argue that by applying the interbehavioral concept of stimulus substitution for stimuli that differ arbitrarily in multiple ways (i.e., multiple stimulus relations), the door may be opened for the entire RFT research program to yield (at least potentially) to interbehavioral field-based analyses.","PeriodicalId":44993,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Behavior Science","volume":"49 1","pages":"75-98"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13013888/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147522062","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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Verbal Frontiers: Combining Words in the Wild, Computational Modeling, and Behavior Analysis to Explore Verbal Communities. 语言前沿：结合野外词汇，计算建模和行为分析来探索语言社区。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2025-11-14 eCollection Date: 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-025-00484-y

David J Cox

{"title":"Verbal Frontiers: Combining Words in the Wild, Computational Modeling, and Behavior Analysis to Explore Verbal Communities.","authors":"David J Cox","doi":"10.1007/s40614-025-00484-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40614-025-00484-y","url":null,"abstract":"Significant advancements in science occur when previously unobservable or immeasurable things critical to theory become observable and measurable. The \"verbal community\" is a case in point; it plays a critical role in the analysis of verbal behavior, but has primarily been described theoretically, as observing, measuring, or directly analyzing verbal communities has historically been difficult. In this article, we review recent technological advances in data collection and computational modeling that allow researchers to directly observe and measure verbal communities in real-time as they evolve. Because data are often collected at the individual level, researchers can directly observe, measure, and model the influence of a verbal community on the behavior of individual speakers and listeners. This approach is demonstrated through two examples in which two distinct verbal communities were directly observed, measured, described, and modeled. In doing so, previously vague theoretical descriptions and novel, nuanced questions about verbal communities and their influence on the behavior of speakers and listeners can be addressed and answered with empirical data. It should be noted that the approaches discussed herein rely on structural analyses of textual stimuli. Though uncommon in behavior analysis, future research demonstrating how integrating structural and functional approaches to the analysis of verbal behavior may lead to novel advances in our understanding of verbal behavior.Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40614-025-00484-y.","PeriodicalId":44993,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Behavior Science","volume":"49 1","pages":"201-232"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13013928/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147522258","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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A Call for Standards: Identifying Demographic and Methodological Variables in Infant Behavior-Analytic Research. 标准的呼唤：确定婴儿行为分析研究中的人口统计学和方法学变量。

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Perspectives on Behavior Science Pub Date : 2025-11-05 eCollection Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1007/s40614-025-00479-9

Jennifer L Bruzek, Benjamin N Witts

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