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Mark R. Dixon is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their published work covers a variety of topics including behavioral and psychological studies, autism spectrum disorder research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family and disability support research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, mindfulness and compassion interventions, and bullying, victimization, and aggression.

Frequent publication venues for Mark R. Dixon include Behavior Analysis in Practice, the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, the Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, and Neuromuscular Disorders.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Glofitamab plus gemcitabine and oxaliplatin (GemOx) versus rituximab-GemOx for relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (STARGLO): a global phase 3, randomised, open-label trial" (2024, The Lancet)
  • "Glofitamab for Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma" (2022, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • "Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research" (2021, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science)
  • "Developing and Enhancing Adherence to a Telehealth ABA Parent Training Curriculum for Caregivers of Children with Autism" (2020, Behavior Analysis in Practice)
  • "Relational Density Theory: Nonlinearity of Equivalence Relating Examined through Higher-Order Volumetric-Mass-Density" (2020, Perspectives on Behavior Science)

Frequent co-authors include Zhihui Yi, Jordan Belisle, Jessica M. Hinman, Dana Paliliunas, and Steven C. Hayes.

Best Publications

  • Delay discounting by pathological gamblers.

    Mark R. Dixon;Janice Marley;Eric A. Jacobs

  • Contextual control of delay discounting by pathological gamblers.

    Mark R. Dixon;Eric A. Jacobs;Scott Sanders

  • Using a Self-Control Training Procedure To Increase Appropriate Behavior.

    Mark R. Dixon;Linda J. Hayes;Lisa M. Binder;Sharon Manthey

  • NEAR-MISS EFFECTS ON RESPONSE LATENCIES AND WIN ESTIMATIONS OF SLOT MACHINE PLAYERS

    Mark R. Dixon;James E. Schreiber

  • NEUROBEHAVIORAL EVIDENCE FOR THE “NEAR‐MISS” EFFECT IN PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLERS

    Reza Habib;Mark R. Dixon

  • A procedure to teach self-control to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

    Lisa M. Binder;Mark R. Dixon;Patrick M. Ghezzi

  • Manipulating the Illusion of Control: Variations in Gambling as a Function of Perceived Control over Chance Outcomes

    Mark R. Dixon

  • Self-control in children with autism: response allocation during delays to reinforcement.

    Mark R. Dixon;Anne Cummings

  • Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research

    Steven C. Hayes;Rhonda M. Merwin;Louise McHugh;Emily K. Sandoz

  • CREATING SINGLE‐SUBJECT DESIGN GRAPHS IN MICROSOFT EXCEL™ 2007

    Mark R. Dixon;James W. Jackson;Stacey L. Small;Mollie J. Horner-King

  • Modification of slot-machine preferences through the use of a conditional discrimination paradigm.

    Kimberly R. Zlomke;Mark R. Dixon

  • Using a computer simulation of three slot machines to investigate a gambler's preference among varying densities of near-miss alternatives.

    Otrro H MacLin;Mark R Dixon;Dustin Daugherty;Stacey L Small

  • Examining the Roles of Rule Following, Reinforcement, and Preexperimental Histories on Risk-Taking Behavior

    Mark R. Dixon;Linda J. Hayes;Immaculada B. Aban

  • Effects of Differing Instructional Histories on the Resurgence Of Rule-Following

    Mark R. Dixon;Linda J. Hayes

  • Enhancing tolerance to delayed reinforcers: the role of intervening activities.

    Mark R. Dixon;Ruth Anne Rehfeldt;Lysette Randich

  • The Gambling Functional Assessment (GFA): An Assessment Device for Identification of the Maintaining Variables of Pathological Gambling

    Mark R. Dixon;Taylor E. Johnson

  • Teaching self-control to small groups of dually diagnosed adults.

    Mark R. Dixon;Sharon Holcomb

  • Toward an Integrative Behavioral Model of Gambling

    Jeffrey N. Weatherly;Mark R. Dixon

  • FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND TREATMENT OF INAPPROPRIATE VERBAL BEHAVIOR

    Mark R. Dixon;Heather Benedict;Tracy Larson

  • Almost winning: Induced MEG theta power in insula and orbitofrontal cortex increases during gambling near-misses and is associated with BOLD signal and gambling severity

    Simon Dymond;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Natalia Sophie Lawrence;Benjamin Dunkley;Kenneth S. L. Yuen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Anne Rehfeldt
Ruth Anne Rehfeldt The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Simon Dymond
Simon Dymond Swansea University
Reza Habib
Reza Habib Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Derek D. Reed
Derek D. Reed University of Kansas
Tristram Smith
Tristram Smith University of Rochester Medical Center
Natalia Lawrence
Natalia Lawrence University of Exeter
Bryan Roche
Bryan Roche National University of Ireland, Maynooth
W. Miles Cox
W. Miles Cox Bangor University
Joel Myerson
Joel Myerson Washington University in St. Louis
Leonard Green
Leonard Green Washington University in St. Louis

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