Catania, A.C. (2008).
The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior at zero, fifty, and one hundred.
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 87, 111-118.
The experimental content areas represented in JEAB in its first volume (1958) and fifty 50 years later in Volume
87 are in many ways similar with regard to research on schedules of reinforcement, research with human subjects,
and several other topics. Experimental analysis has not been displaced by quantitative analysis. Much less
research on aversive control has been published in recent than in earlier years. Wishes for progress in the
next fifty 50 years include experiments on verbal behavior, the sources of novel behavior, and observing
responses based on stimuli correlated with escape or avoidance.
Key words: schedules of reinforcement, stimulus control, aversive control, verbal behavior, molecular versus molar, novel behavior, human behavior