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6727
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - APA International Humanitarian Award, American Psychological Association
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Alan Poling is affiliated with Western Michigan University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions in the subfields of developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, and small animals. The main thematic areas of their work cover behavioral and psychological studies, autism spectrum disorder research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bullying, victimization, and aggression, animal behavior and welfare studies, child nutrition and feeding issues, and plant and animal studies.

The scientist has published extensively in several peer-reviewed venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Behavioural Processes
  • Behavior Analysis Research and Practice
  • Behavior Analysis in Practice
  • Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
  • Journal of Organizational Behavior Management

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "Interobserver agreement and procedural fidelity: An odd asymmetry," 2022, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
  • "Women in Behavior Analysis: A Review of the Literature," 2021, Behavior Analysis in Practice
  • "Rapidly training African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys ansorgei) with multiple targets for scent detection," 2020, Behavioural Processes
  • "Resurgence increases with repetition," 2022, Behavioural Processes
  • "Punishment-induced resurgence," 2024, Behavioural Processes

Alan Poling has collaborated frequently with a consistent group of coauthors, including Katarina Rotta, Hugo Curiel, Amin D. Lotfizadeh, Rena VanDerwall, and Emily S. L. Curiel. Their partnerships have resulted in multiple publications, indicating ongoing research collaboration.

Recognition for their contributions to the field includes being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1994 and receiving the APA International Humanitarian Award in 2016.

Best Publications

  • MOTIVATING OPERATIONS AND TERMS TO DESCRIBE THEM: SOME FURTHER REFINEMENTS

    Sean Laraway;Susan Snycerski;Jack Michael;Alan Poling

  • A Descriptive Analysis and Critique of the Empirical Literature on School-Based Functional Assessment.

    Ruth A. Ervin;Pamela M. Radford;Kathy Bertsch;Andrew L. Piper

  • Fundamentals of Behavior Analytic Research

    Alan D. Poling;Laura L. Methot;Mark G. LeSage

  • Making life easier with effort: Basic findings and applied research on response effort.

    Patrick C. Friman;Alan Poling

  • The differential outcomes effect

    Susan Goeters;Elbert Blakely;Alan Poling

  • ACQUISITION OF LEVER‐PRESS RESPONDING IN RATS WITH DELAYED REINFORCEMENT: A COMPARISON OF THREE PROCEDURES

    Jayson Wilkenfield;Mark Nickel;Elbert Blakely;Alan Poling

  • Development of intraverbal behavior in mentally retarded individuals through transfer of stimulus control procedures: Classification of verbal responses

    Steven J. Braam;Alan Poling

  • BURYING BY RATS IN RESPONSE TO AVERSIVE AND NONAVERSIVE STIMULI

    Alan Poling;James Cleary;Michael Monaghan

  • d-amphetamine and fixed-interval performance: effects of operant history.

    Cathleen Urbain;Alan Poling;James Millam;Travis Thompson

  • Looking to the Future: Will Behavior Analysis Survive and Prosper?

    Alan Poling

  • Differential- Reinforcement-of-Other-Behavior Schedules Therapeutic Applications

    Alan Poling;Charlotte Ryan

  • Oligomers of the Amyloid-Beta Protein Disrupt Working Memory: Confirmation with Two Behavioral Procedures

    Alan Poling;Kineta Morgan-Paisley;John J. Panos;Eun Mee Kim

  • PREFERENCE IN PIGEONS GIVEN A CHOICE BETWEEN SEQUENCES OF FIXED-RATIO SCHEDULES: EFFECTS OF RATIO VALUES AND DURATION OF FOOD DELIVERY

    Earl Hall-Johnson;Alan Poling

  • Research methods in applied behavior analysis : issues and advances

    Alan D. Poling;R. Wayne Fuqua

  • The effects of differing response-force requirements on fixed-ratio responding of rats.

    Ken Alling;Alan Poling

  • Noncontingent Reinforcement: An Inappropriate Description Of Time-Based Schedules That Reduce Behavior.

    Alan Poling;Matthew P. Normand

  • CHOICE AS A DEPENDENT MEASURE IN AUTOSHAPING: SENSITIVITY TO FREQUENCY AND DURATION OF FOOD PRESENTATION

    Mitchell Picker;Alan Poling

  • Using trained pouched rats to detect land mines: another victory for operant conditioning.

    Alan Poling;Bart Weetjens;Christophe Cox;Negussie W. Beyene

  • Animal olfactory detection of human diseases: Guidelines and systematic review

    Timothy L. Edwards;Clare Melody Browne;Adee Schoon;Christophe Cox

  • Tuberculosis detection by giant african pouched rats.

    Alan Poling;Bart Weetjens;Christophe Cox;Negussie Beyene

  • Self-control in mentally retarded adolescents: choice as a function of amount and delay of reinforcement.

    Steven P. Ragotzy;Elbert Blakely;Alan Poling

  • Learning ACT: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills- Training Manual for Therapists by LUOMA, J. B., HAYES, S. C., & WALSER, R. D.

    Marc Weeden;Alan Poling

Frequent Co-Authors

Travis Thompson
Travis Thompson University of Minnesota
Rudovick R. Kazwala
Rudovick R. Kazwala Sokoine University of Agriculture
Kennon A. Lattal
Kennon A. Lattal West Virginia University
Kenneth D. Gadow
Kenneth D. Gadow Stony Brook University
Louis P. Hagopian
Louis P. Hagopian Kennedy Krieger Institute
Iser G. DeLeon
Iser G. DeLeon University of Florida

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