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Thomas S. Critchfield is affiliated with Illinois State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Psychology, with a focus on Behavioral and Psychological Studies. Within this domain, they have contributed to several subfields, including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Social Psychology. Additional research interests extend to General Health Professions and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers multiple topics, particularly in Behavioral and Psychological Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Community Health and Development, Health Policy Implementation Science, and Behavioral Health and Interventions.

Frequent publication venues where their work appears include Behavior Analysis in Practice, Perspectives on Behavior Science, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Behavior and Social Issues, and The Analysis of Verbal Behavior.

Key recent papers by Thomas S. Critchfield include:

  • "A peek into the room where it happens: Quantifying ABA's influence on public policy discussions" (2024, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis)
  • "Parents' Emotional Responses to Behavior Analysis Terms: A Comparative Analysis" (2023, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior)
  • "Measuring the Dissemination Impact of Culturo-Behavioral Science" (2023, Behavior and Social Issues)
  • "ABA from A to Z: Behavior Science Applied to 350 Domains of Socially Significant Behavior" (2022, Perspectives on Behavior Science)
  • "Fifteen Years and Counting: The Dissemination Impact of Behavior Analysis in Practice" (2022, Behavior Analysis in Practice)

Thomas S. Critchfield has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including William L. Heward, Derek D. Reed, Ronnie Detrich, Brett W. Gelino, and Kimberly B. Marshall. These collaborations reflect shared research interests and contributions to the discipline.

Best Publications

  • Temporal discounting: basic research and the analysis of socially important behavior.

    Thomas S. Critchfield;Scott H. Kollins

  • Categorization, concept learning, and behavior analysis: An introduction

    Thomas R Zentall;Mark Galizio;Thomas S Critchfied

  • TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS: HISTORICAL TRADITIONS AND IMPERATIVE FOR THE FUTURE

    F. Charles Mace;Thomas S. Critchfield

  • Teaching Brain-Behavior Relations Economically with Stimulus Equivalence Technology.

    Daniel M. Fienup;Daniel P. Covey;Thomas S. Critchfield

  • Verbal self-reports of delayed matching to sample by humans.

    Thomas S. Critchfield;Michael Perone

  • The generalized matching law in elite sport competition: football play calling as operant choice.

    Derek D. Reed;Thomas S. Critchfield;Brian K. Martens

  • Human sensitivity to reinforcement in operant choice: How much do consequences matter?

    Scott H. Kollins;M. Christopher Newland;Thomas S. Critchfield

  • ACQUISITION OF A SPATIALLY DEFINED OPERANT WITH DELAYED REINFORCEMENT

    Thomas S. Critchfield;Kennon A. Lattal

  • Punishment in human choice: direct or competitive suppression?

    Thomas S. Critchfield;Elliott M. Paletz;Kenneth R. MacAleese;M. Christopher Newland;M. Christopher Newland

  • Classification of vowels and consonants by individuals with moderate mental retardation: development of arbitrary relations via match-to-sample training with compound stimuli

    Scott D. Lane;Thomas S. Critchfield

  • Self-Report Methods

    Thomas S. Critchfield;Jalie A. Tucker;Rudy E. Vuchinich

  • The Fuzzy Concept of Applied Behavior Analysis Research

    Thomas S. Critchfield;Derek D. Reed

  • Transportability of equivalence-based programmed instruction: efficacy and efficiency in a college classroom.

    Daniel M. Fienup;Thomas S. Critchfield

  • VERBAL SELF‐REPORTS ABOUT MATCHING TO SAMPLE: EFFECTS OF THE NUMBER OF ELEMENTS IN A COMPOUND SAMPLE STIMULUS

    Thomas S. Critchfield;Michael Perone

  • Translational contributions of the experimental analysis of behavior.

    Thomas S. Critchfield

  • Association for Behavior Analysis International

    Thomas S. Critchfield

  • Normative Emotional Responses to Behavior Analysis Jargon or How Not to Use Words to Win Friends and Influence People.

    Thomas S Critchfield;Karla J Doepke;L Kimberly Epting;Amel Becirevic

  • CONCURRENT SCHEDULES OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT: DIFFERENTIAL‐IMPACT AND DIFFERENTIAL‐OUTCOMES HYPOTHESES

    Michael A Magoon;Thomas S Critchfield

  • ABA from A to Z: Behavior Science Applied to 350 Domains of Socially Significant Behavior

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  • Generality of the matching law as a descriptor of shot selection in basketball.

    Larry A Alferink;Thomas S Critchfield;Jennifer L Hitt;William J Higgins

  • Efficiently establishing concepts of inferential statistics and hypothesis decision making through contextually controlled equivalence classes.

    Daniel M. Fienup;Thomas S. Critchfield

  • On the Social Acceptability of Behavior-Analytic Terms: Crowdsourced Comparisons of Lay and Technical Language

    Amel Becirevic;Thomas S. Critchfield;Derek D. Reed

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek D. Reed
Derek D. Reed University of Kansas
Roland R. Griffiths
Roland R. Griffiths Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Simon Dymond
Simon Dymond Swansea University
Kennon A. Lattal
Kennon A. Lattal West Virginia University
David P. Jarmolowicz
David P. Jarmolowicz University of Kansas
Scott D. Lane
Scott D. Lane The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Rudy E. Vuchinich
Rudy E. Vuchinich University of Alabama at Birmingham
John A. Nevin
John A. Nevin University of New Hampshire
R. Douglas Greer
R. Douglas Greer Columbia University
Joel Myerson
Joel Myerson Washington University in St. Louis

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