51st Annual Convention Preview – Invited Presenters

Applied Animal Behavior
The Behavior of (Other) Organisms: Considerations for Nontraditional Animal Research

Christopher Varnon
University of North Texas
Autism
Defining and Measuring Meaningful Outcomes in ABA Services for Autism Spectrum Disorders

Ivy Chong
Little Leaves Behavioral Services
The Pillars of Effective Clinical Service Delivery: Research, Training, and Care (and a Few Well-Considered Logistics, too)
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Jessica Sassi
New England Center for Children
Behavioral Pharmacology and Neuroscience
Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms of Intravenous Fentanyl Use and Withdrawal When Xylazine is Used as an Adulterant

Cassandra Gipson-Reichardt
University of Kentucky
Clinical/Family/Behavioral Medicine
Translating Mentalism: Mind as a Metaphor for Functional Relations

Emily Sandoz
University of Louisiana Lafayette
Community, Social, and Sustainability Issues
Sustainability for Whom?

Emmanuel Tourinho
Universidade Federal do Para/Federal University of Para
Developmental Disabilities
Providing Behavior Analytic Services to Older Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Complex Training Demands in an Area with Growing Needs

Jonathan Baker
Western Michigan University
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Eco-Social Determinants of Health: Considerations and Recommendations for Behavior Analysts/Scientists

Paula Danquah-Brobby
George Mason University, College of Science
Experimental Analysis of Behavior
On the Predictive Utility of Discounting Models

David Cox
Endicott College; RethinkFirst
A Behavior Regulation Approach to Learned Performances

Kenneth Jacobs
Salem State University
Lifespan Behavioral Development
It Takes Two to Tango: The Path from Preverbal to Generative Verbal Behavior

Maithri Sivaraman
Teachers College of Columbia University
Organizational Behavior Management
Consumer Behavior Analysis for Healthy/Sustainable Food Marketing: Purchase Path, Placements & Product Attributes

Valdimar Sigurdsson
Reykjavik University
Philosophical, Conceptual, and Historical Issues
The Things We Say About the Things We Do

Matt Normand
University of the Pacific
Practice
Why I am a Behavior Analyst and an Advocate for Behavior Analysis (Are you?)

Bill Ahearn
New England Center for Children
Accomplishment Based Performance Improvement and Instruction: A Focus on Valuable Contributions

Carl Binder
The Performance Thinking Network, LLC
Interbehaviorism in Practice

Mitch Fryling
California State University, Los Angeles
Intractable Head-Directed Self-Injurious Behavior: A Functional Reconsideration

Greg Hanley
FTF Behavioral Consulting
The Threat of Misinformation and Disinformation in Autism Supports to the Applied Behavior Analysis Profession

SungWoo Kahng
Rutgers University
On the Breadth and Limitations of Behavioral Skills Training: Lessons Learned from 40 Years of Research

Raymond Miltenberger
University of South Florida
A Revival of Clinical Behavior Analysis: The Case of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy

Amanda Muñoz-Martínez
Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
Science
Paying Attention (or Not) to What You Are Doing: Goal Direction, Inhibition, and Habit in Operant Learning

Mark Bouton
University of Vermont
The Varieties of Behavior Analytic Experience
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Charlie Catania
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Racial Prejudice as Relational Responding: Experimental Research and Possibilities of Intervention

Julio de Rose
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Understanding the Downward Spiral of Power and Coercion

Sonia Goltz
Michigan Technological University
Maximization Theory Redux: An Economic Account of Instrumental Reinforcement

Federico Sanabria
Arizona State University
Identity, Advocacy, and Autism Pseudoscience

Stuard Vyse
Independent Scholar
When Eyewitness Memory Reliably Exonerates the Wrongfully Convicted
John Wixted
University of California, San Diego
Video Games as the New “Virtual” Skinner Box
Michael Young
Kansas State University
From the Learner’s View: Methods to Assess and Produce Coherent Stimulus Control Topographies

Thomas Cariveau
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Living a Behavior Analytic Life: Skinner’s Legacy Applied

Barbara Esch
Esch Behavioral Consultants, LLC