ANIMAL RESEARCH IN THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS

• Published in: Journal of applied behavior analysis Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 409 - 412
• Main Authors: Edwards, Timothy L., Poling, Alan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2011; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; The Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal Experimentation; animal subjects; Animal training; Animals; Applied behavior analysis; Barriers; Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Behavior Problems; Behavior, Animal - physiology; Behavioral Science Research; Biological and medical sciences; Birds; Brief Reviews; Correspondence; Food; Functional Behavioral Assessment; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Horses; Humans; Mines; Monkeys & apes; Periodicals as Topic; Positive reinforcement; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reinforcement; Response rates; Rodents; Science Education; Self destructive behavior; Studies; translational research; Tuberculosis; Applied psychology; Behavioral analysis; Periodical; Animal; animal subjects; translational research; applied behavior analysis
• ISSN: 0021-8855; 1938-3703; 1938-3703
• DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2011.44-409

This review summarizes the 6 studies with nonhuman animal subjects that have appeared in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and offers suggestions for future research in this area. Two of the reviewed articles described translational research in which pigeons were used to illustrate and examine behavioral phenomena of applied significance (say—do correspondence and fluency), 3 described interventions that changed animals' behavior (self‐injury by a baboon, feces throwing and spitting by a chimpanzee, and unsafe trailer entry by horses) in ways that benefited the animals and the people in charge of them, and 1 described the use of trained rats that performed a service to humans (land‐mine detection). We suggest that each of these general research areas merits further attention and that the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis is an appropriate outlet for some of these publications.