Equivalence Relations and Behavior: A Research Story

TL;DR: Ackerman and Krueger as discussed by the authors outline and apply principles of behavioral systems science, an emerging data-based approach to understand the dynamics of complex cultural systems, to the practice of constructive noncooperation (Gandhi's "constructive programme").

TL;DR: This paper investigated baseline reviews as a relevant variable in reorganization of equivalence classes and found that baseline reviews may have functioned as contextual cues, strengthening the most recent baseline against the conflicting earlier ones.

TL;DR: In this article, the same 4 normally developing 4-yr-old children were trained in action-object conditional discriminations and were then exposed to a symmetry test for the derived object-action relations.

TL;DR: Findings suggesting that the equivalence-testing context helps establish 4-member equivalence classes that are inconsistent with Phase-1 training are extended, suggesting that this resurgence of equivalence relations requires their initial testing.