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Overview

A. Charles Catania is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas in psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, education, sociology, and safety research.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including behavioral and psychological studies, child and animal learning development, autism spectrum disorder research, early childhood education and development, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, experimental behavioral economics studies, and the philosophy and history of science.

Frequent publication venues for Catania's research include the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, where the majority of their work has appeared, as well as the Journal of Behavioral Education and The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by A. Charles Catania include:

  • "Faustian bargains: Short-term and long-term contingencies in phylogeny, ontogeny, and sociogeny," 2022, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • "Changing What Teachers Say Changes What They Do: Increasing Their Specific Praise of Student Behavior," 2022, Journal of Behavioral Education
  • "Evolutionary Biology and the Natural Selection of Behavior," 2020, The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development
  • "Prolegomena to any future philosophy of behavior analysis as a science," 2023, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • "Tactical contingencies in the experimental analysis of reinforcement and operant classes," 2020, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Collaborations are an important aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include W. David Stahlman, Nancy A. Neef, Michael P. Kranak, Marnie Shapiro, and Ziwei Xu.

Best Publications

  • A quantitative analysis of the responding maintained by interval schedules of reinforcement.

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  • Instructed versus shaped human verbal behavior: Interactions with nonverbal responding.

    A. Charles Catania;Byron A. Matthews;Eliot Shimoff

  • Uninstructed human responding: sensitivity to ratio and interval contingencies.

    Byron A. Matthews;Eliot Shimoff;A. Charles Catania;Terje Sagvolden

  • Uninstructed human responding: Sensitivity of low-rate performance to schedule contingencies

    Eliot Shimoff;A. Charles Catania;Byron A. Matthews

  • CONCURRENT PERFORMANCES: A BASELINE FOR THE STUDY OF REINFORCEMENT MAGNITUDE1

    A. Charles Catania

  • An Experimental Analysis of Rule-Governed Behavior

    A. Charles Catania;Eliot Shimoff;Byron A. Matthews

  • Concurrent performances: reinforcement interaction and response independence.

    A. Charles Catania

  • The concept of the operant in the analysis of behavior.

    A. Charles Catania

  • EXPERIMENTAL CONTROL OF SUPERSTITIOUS RESPONDING IN HUMANS

    A. Charles Catania;David Cutts

  • The myth of self-reinforcement.

    A. Charles Catania

  • Preference for free choice over forced choice in pigeons.

    A. Charles Catania;Terje Sagvolden

  • HUMAN OPERANT PERFORMANCE: SENSITIVITY AND PSEUDOSENSITIVITY TO CONTINGENCIES

    Eliot Shimoff;Byron A. Matthews;A. Charles Catania

  • Contemporary research in operant behavior

    A. Charles Catania

  • Reinforcement schedules: the role of responses preceding the one that produces the reinforcer

    A. Charles Catania

  • Self-inhibiting effects of reinforcement

    A. Charles Catania

  • The psychologies of structure, function, and development.

    A. Charles Catania

  • Freedom and knowledge: an experimental analysis of preference in pigeons.

    A. Charles Catania

  • Concurrent performances: inhibition of one response by reinforcement of another.

    A. Charles Catania

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING: SOME LESSONS FROM THE DARWINIAN REVOLUTION*

    A. Charles Catania

  • Effects of Recording Attendance on Grades in Introductory Psychology

    Eliot Shimoff;A. Charles Catania

  • What good is five percent of a language competence

    A. Charles Catania

  • ON THE VISUAL ACUITY OF THE PIGEON.

    A. Charles Catania

Frequent Co-Authors

Iser G. DeLeon
Iser G. DeLeon University of Florida
Larry L. Hench
Larry L. Hench Florida Institute of Technology
Michael F. Cataldo
Michael F. Cataldo Kennedy Krieger Institute
J. Bruce Overmier
J. Bruce Overmier University of Minnesota
C. Fergus Lowe
C. Fergus Lowe Bangor University

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