Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story

TL;DR: A training procedure based on the implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP) was used to establish novel combinatorially entailed relations that manipulated the feedback provided on the trained relations, and its impact was examined on persistent rule-following.

TL;DR: In this paper, a computer-ized matching-to-sample (MTS) task was used to train children to form three stimulus classes: one stimulus class included three arbitrary stimuli, the others contained a positively or negatively valenced stimulus, a school-re-lated stimulus, and an arbitrary stimulus.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered six possible criticisms of using yield to study equivalence classes and each criticism was supported; instead, each disclosed a nonyield factor that could play a critical role in the measurement of class formation but has not yet been explored experimentally.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes mass killings as the culmination of a sequence of thoughts and actions that are influenced by environmental events including media reports of mass killings, and evaluates media reporting guidelines and research related to the prevention of suicide and other imitational behaviors to identify reactive and proactive strategies that could minimize the likelihood of one mass killing inducing another.