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Special Sections in JEABThis journal has published many special sections within an issue, sometimes celebrating a particular bit of history, sometimes presenting a controversial article that is accompanied by critical commentaries and the author’s reply. A series of monographs have also appeared: long articles, usually supplements to an issue that were then bound and sold as separates for classroom use. In one case, two articles concerning Skinner’s Verbal Behavior were bound together and offered as a separate. Because all our back issues have been scanned for us by the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, we are able to present links to PDF versions of all these articles. Clicks on these titles, listed in reverse chronological order here, will move you to the detailed group of links for that particular item.
* *JEAB 50th Anniversary: 1958—2008: January 2008 *Behavior Analysis: Tributes to P. B. Dews, R. T. Kelleher, and W. H. Morse: November 2006 *B. F. Skinner Centennial: November 2004 *Baum’s Review of Staddon’s The New Behaviorism, plus comments: July 2004 *The Golden Anniversary of Skinner’s Science and Human Behavior: November 2003 *A Tribute to the Harvard Pigeon Lab: May 2002 *Dinsmoor’s “Stimuli Inevitably Generated by Behavior…” plus comments: May 2001 *In Honor of Edward L. Thorndike / In Honor of Ivan P. Pavlov: November 1999 *J. A. Nevin, Signal-Detection Theory, and Behavior Analysis: May 1999 *Staddon and Higa’s “Time and Memory…”: March 1999 *Donahoe, Palmer and Burgos’ “The S-R Issue:Its Status...” plus comments: March 1997 *Horne and Lowe’s “On the Origins of Naming and Other Symbolic Behavior,”: January 1996 * Horne and Lowe: Continuing Discussion: September 1997 *Hineline’s “Quickening the Pace of Our Discussions”: September 1993 *A Celebration of The Behavior of Organisms at Fifty: September 1988 *Anniversaries in Behavior Analysis: November 1987 *Timberlake’s Behavioral Regulation and Learned Performance, reviewers’ comments: May 1984 The Monographs and SeparatesWerner K. Honig and Peter J. Urcuioli. The Legacy of Guttman and Kalish (1956): Twenty-five Years of Research on Stimulus Generalization. November 1981, 36(3): 405-445. Elliot Hearst, Serena Besley, and G. William Farthing. Inhibition and the Stimulus Control of Operant Behavior. November 1970 14(3 Pt 2 Suppl): 373-409. Kenneth MacCorquodale. On Chomsky’s Review of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior. January 1970, 13, 83-99. Kenneth MacCorquodale. B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior: A Retrospective Appreciation. September 1969, 12, 831-841. A. Charles Catania and G. S. Reynolds. A Quantitative Analysis of the Responding Maintained by Interval Schedules of Reinforcement. May 1968, 11(Pt2 Suppl): 327-383. Douglas Anger. The Role of Temporal Discriminations in the Reinforcement of Sidman Avoidance Behavior. July 1963, 6(3 Pt 2 Suppl): 477-506. Roger T. Kelleher and Lewis R. Gollub. A Review of Positive Conditioned Reinforcement. October 1962, 5(4Suppl): 543-597. Jack D. Findley. An Experimental Outline for Building and Exploring Multi-Operant Behavior Repertoires. January 1962, 5(1 Suppl): 113-166. |
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In all cases below, clicking on the date and volume number in the left-hand column will produce the table of contents of the entire issue. Direct paths to the individual articles are offered in the right-hand column. | |
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September 2010 V.94(2) Dynamics of Choice |
Editorial: Choice studies in transition. Dynamics of choice: A tutorial. Development and maintenance of choice in a dynamic environment. The effects of a negative feedback function between choice and
relative reinforcer rate. Rapid acquisition of choice and timing and the provenance of the
terminal-link effect. A decision model for steady-state choice in concurrent chains. Toward a mechanics of adaptive behavior: Evolutionary dynamics and
matching theory statics. The dynamics of successive induction in larval zebrafish. |
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January 2008 V.89(1) JEAB’s Fiftieth Anniversary: 1958—2008 |
Editorial: Half a century. 50th Anniversary Essays. The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior at Fifty. The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior at Zero, Fifty, and One Hundred. Control, prediction, order, and the joys of research. Behavior analysis: Thriving, but how about its future? JEAB at Fifty: Coevolution of Research and Technology. JEAB and the Skinnerian interpretation of behavior. |
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November 2006 V.86(3) Behavior analysis: Tributes to P. B. Dews, R. T. Kelleher, and W. H. Morse |
A major trio. Behavioral determinants of drug action: The contributions of Peter B. Dews. Roger Kelleher, behavior analyst. An architect of the golden years. [W. H. Morse] |
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November 2004 V.82(3) B. F. Skinner Centennial |
The etymology of basic concepts in the experimental analysis of behavior. A day of great illumination: B. F. Skinner’s discovery of shaping. Steps and pips in the history of the cumulative recorder. On the origin and preservation of cumulative record in its struggle for life as a favored term. |
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July 2004 V.82(1) Baum’s review of Staddon’s The New Behaviorism, plus commentaries |
The Interpretation of Themes: Opening the Baum–Staddon
Inkbattle. [Editorial]
Book Review Commentaries Ships that Pass in the Night.
Modern Molar Behaviorism and Theoretical Behaviorism: Religion and Science.
Scientific Peer Review: A Case Study from Local and Global Analyses.
Responses to Staddon, Shimp, Malone, and Donahoe.
Author’s Response |
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November 2003 V.80(3) The Golden Anniversary of Skinner’s Science and Human Behavior Edited by |
A still great voice: the golden sovereignty of Science and Human Behavior. B. F. Skinner’s Science and Human Behavior: its antecedents and its consequences. Science and Human Behavior: a tutorial in behavior analysis. Science and Human Behavior at fifty. Science and Human Behavior translated into Portuguese: Ciência e Comportamento Humano. Science and Human Behavior, dualism, and conceptual modification. |
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May 2002 V.77(3) A Tribute to the Harvard Pigeon Lab Edited by |
Editor’s Introduction. K A Lattal. Foreword to Schedules of reinforcement. Lewis R Gollub. The watershed years of 1958-1962 in the Harvard Pigeon Lab. The Harvard Pigeon Lab under Herrnstein. The living legacy of the Harvard Pigeon Lab: quantitative analysis in the wide world. Philosophy of behaviorism. Pigeon Lab notable experience. Context matters: My education at the Harvard Pigeon Lab. From programmed instruction to pigeons. A view from an outsider. The nurturing of a behavior analyst. Reminiscences of a reformed pigeon pusher. The Harvard Pigeon Lab, 1970-1998: Graduate students and matching law research. The Harvard Pigeon Lab in context. Our Harvard pigeon, rat, dog, and human lab. The matching law illustrates the influence of the Harvard Pigeon Lab. Qualitatively different reinforcers in the Harvard Pigeon Lab. Memories of Memorial Hall. |
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May 2001 V.75(3) Dinsmoor’s “Stimuli inevitably generated by behavior…” plus commentaries, and a reply |
Special Article Commentaries Molar versus as a paradigm clash.
Beyond the molar-molecular distinction: we need multiscaled analyses.
The molarity of molecular theory and the molecularity of molar theory.
Are responses in avoidance procedures “safety” signals?
A few minor suggestions.
Explaining avoidance: two factors are still better than one.
Two-factor theory has strong empirical evidence of validity.
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November 1999 V.72(3) In Honor of Edited by
In Honor of |
Thorndike’s Legacy: Learning, Selection, and the Law of Effect.
A Review of Geraldine Jonçich’s The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike.
Thorndike’s Puzzle Boxes and the Origins of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
After the Puzzle Boxes: Thorndike in the 20th Century.
Analyzing Thorndike’s Law of Effect: The Question of Stimulus–response Bonds.
Edward L. Thorndike: The Selectionist Connectionist.
Pavlov and Skinner: Two Lives in Science (An Introduction to B. F. Skinner’s “Some
Responses to the Stimulus ‘Pavlov’ ”).
Some Responses to the Stimulus “Pavlov.” (Reprinted)
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May 1999 V.71(3) J. A. Nevin, |
Behavior analysis and signal-detection theory: Introduction.
Signal detection theory and operant behavior:
A review of David M. Green and John A. Swets’ Signal detection
theory and psychophysics.
Psychophysics of remembering.
Stimuli, reinforcers, and behavior: An integration.
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March 1999 V.71(2) Staddon and Higa’s “Time and memory…” plus commentaries and a reply |
Special Article: Commentaries Timing without a timer.
Can a decay process explain the timing of conditioned responses?.
Multiple time scales is well named.
Modeling modeling.
The whirligig of time: Some thoughts on Staddon and Higa.
Tolerance in a rigorous science.
Time without clocks.
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March 1997 V.67(2) “The S-R Issue: Its status in behavior analysis and in Donahoe and Palmer’s Learning and Complex Behavior,” plus commentaries and a reply |
Special Article:
The S-R issue: its status in behavior analysis and in Donahoe and Palmer’s
Learning and Complex Behavior. J W Donahoe, D C Palmer, and J E Burgos. [The authors state that their essay was prompted by the following article: Shull, R. L. Interpreting cognitive phenomena: Review of Donahoe and Palmer’s Learning and Complex Behavior. JEAB, 1995, 63, 347-358,] Commentaries Some questions about unification of conditioning processes, stimulus-response
psychology, and neural network models.
Beyond The Moment: Complex Behavior In Temporally Extended Environments.
In Today’s Climate, A Forecast for Change: A commentary on Donahoe, Palmer, and Burgos.
We Also Need Complete Behavioral Models.
R-S and S(-O)-R: alternative designs for neural networks.
The Eternal Antithesis: A Commentary on Donahoe, Palmer, and Burgos.
Units of Analysis and the Environmental Control Of Behavior.
The Role of Motivation In the S-R Issue.
Some Thoughts on the S-R Issue and the Relation between Behavior
Analysis and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Theory and Behavior Analysis: Commentary on Donahoe, Palmer, And Burgos.
Biological substrates of operant conditioning and the operant-respondent distinction.
Melioration and Contiguity.
What is Learned? Revisiting an Old Issue.
Reply
The Unit of Selection: What Do Reinforcers Reinforce?
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January 1996 V.65(1) Horne and Lowe’s “On the Origins of Naming and Other Symbolic Behavior,” plus commentaries and a reply Edited by |
Introduction
Richard L. Schull. Special Article On the origins of naming and other symbolic behavior. Pauline J. Horne and C. Fergus Lowe. Commentaries Equivalence relations, naming, and generalized symmetry.
Listener behavior and ostensive learning.
On the experimental analysis of naming and the formation of stimulus classes.
Joint control and word-object bidirectionality.
On the origins of misguided theories of naming and other symbolic behavior.
Learning names may help to make the right connections.
Experimental analysis of naming behavior cannot explain naming capacity.
Naming as a technical term: /sacrificing behavior analysis at the altar of popularity?
Naming as a facilitator of discrimination.
Naming stimulus equivalence, and conditioned hearing.
Naming, meaning, and verbal operants.
Natural contingencies in the creation of naming as a higher order behavior class.
The evidence for naming as a cause or facilitator of equivalence class formation.
Listening with understanding and speaking with meaning.
Can the naming hypothesis be falsified?
Methodological issues in the study of naming.
Achieving parity: The role of automatic reinforcemen.
On naming and symbolic behavior: In the beginning was the Name?
The origins of naming: A critique of self-listening.
Separate repertoires or naming?
Thought without naming.
Names as constituents of sentences: An omission.
Naming and equivalence relations.
Developing a theory of derived stimulus relations.
Naming is not (necessary for) stimulus equivalence.
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September 1997 V. 68(2)
Continuing Discussion of |
Editor’s Introduction Richard L. Schull. Further Commentaries The Role Of Joint Control In The Development Of Naming.
An Archeology Of Meaning.
What’s In A Name? Equivalence By Any Other Name Would Smell As Sweet. Equivalence Relations. Standard Principles, Nonstandard Data, And Unsolved Issues.
Authors’ Reply Action Editor’s Comments |
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September 1993 V.60(2) “The conventional wisdom of behavior analysis”
by J. E. R. Staddon, Philip N. Hineline |
Quickening the pace of our discussions. [Editorial] Special Article [Staddon notes that his article was partly prompted by Marc N. Branch’s January 1992 editorial, “On being narrowly broad.”] Commentaries The unconventional wisdom of B. F. Skinner: The analysis-interpretation distinction.
Commonsense and conventional wisdom.
Why environmentally based analyses are necessary in behavior analysis.
A body must have flesh and bones.
Internal states: Necessary but not sufficient.
Macht’s nicht? A commentary on Staddon’s “The conventional
wisdom of behavior analysis.”
On the ratification of states: A response to Staddon.
Observation and theory in behavior analysis.
Boring’s Mach and state variables.
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September 1988 V.50(2) A Celebration of The Behavior of Organisms at Fifty Edited by |
The Behavior of Organisms as work in progress.
Review of B. F. Skinner’s The Behavior of Organisms.
In the beginning.
Behavior analysis: The third branch of Aristotle’s physics.
The Behavior of Organisms: purposive behavior as a type of reflex.
The reflex reserve.
Inhibition: A cautionary tale.
Differentiating The Behavior of Organisms.
Preface to The Behavior of Organisms.
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November 1987 V.48(3) Anniversaries in Behavior Analysis Edited by |
Introduction.
Philip N. Hineline and Victor G. Laties. A visit to Bloomington: The first Conference on the Experimental Antecedents.
Reminiscences already?
Columbia gems.
The Yerkes connection.
Back to baseline.
An outsider on the inside.
Faded images.
Reminiscences, you say?
Counterpoint.
Collecting the first dollars for JEAB.
“Money’s the cheapest thing we’ve got”?
Memories of JEAB’s mother.
How it was being second.
Behavior in the beginning.
Editorial selection.
Uncertain days—.
Double duty.
Two sides of behavior.
Variation and progress.
Self-conscious behavior analysis.
Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior: The first A special tribute to Ralph Gerbrands.
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May 1984 V.41(3) Timberlake’s “Behavioral regulation and learned performance: Some misapprehensions and disagreements” plus commentaries and a reply |
Special Article: Reviewers’ comments on Timberlake’s “Behavior regulation and
learned performance.”
Author’s Reply |
Mining our archives. Because all back issues of both JEAB and JABA have been scanned and served by the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, we can present several new pages that are largely based upon articles that were not previously available in an electronic format.
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