ReviewBehavioural processes2017
Resurgence as Choice.
Review in Behavioural processes, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 66 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Basic and Clinical Studies in Reinforcing Positive Behaviors in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- On the prevalence and magnitude of resurgence during delay-and-denial tolerance teaching.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2025Pooled it
- Reinforcer value moderates response magnitude and persistence during extinction: A randomized trial.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Trial
- Prevalence of resurgence of destructive behavior when thinning reinforcement schedules during functional communication training.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2018Trial
- The extinction burst: Effects of alternative reinforcement rate.Behavioural processes · 2026Article
- Human-operant evaluation of synthesized alternative reinforcement and resurgence.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- The effects of discriminative stimuli on combined relapse: A preliminary human-operant investigation.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Discriminative Properties of Reinforcers Modulate Resurgence: Evidence from a Systematic Review.Perspectives on behavior science · 2025Review
- The extinction burst: Effects of alternative reinforcement magnitude.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Further examining how animals weigh conflicting information about reward sources over time.Animal cognition · 2025Article
- On the Prospective Application of Behavioral Momentum Theory and Resurgence as Choice in the Treatment of Problem Behavior: A Brief Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Discriminative properties of reinforcers modulate resurgence: A human-operant demonstration.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Understanding and Reacting to Relapse: Considerations for Practitioners.Behavior analysis in practice · 2025Review
- The extinction burst: Effects of reinforcement magnitude.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Choice versus no choice: Practical considerations for increasing choices.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2025Review
- Resurgence mitigation across extended extinction following four and eight cycles of on/off alternative reinforcement.Behavioural processes · 2024Article
- Resurgence of destructive behavior following decreases in alternative reinforcement: A prospective analysis.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Article
- Differential Reinforcement without Extinction: An Assessment of Sensitivity to and Effects of Reinforcer Parameter Manipulations.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Abstinence as Choice: Exploring Voluntary Abstinence from Alcohol Self-Administration Using the Resurgence-as-Choice Framework.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- How do animals weigh conflicting information about reward sources over time? Comparing dynamic averaging models.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning following Functional Communication Training.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Review
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Abstract
Resurgence is typically defined as an increase in a previously extinguished target behavior when a more recently reinforced alternative behavior is later extinguished. Some treatments of the phenomenon have suggested that it might also extend to circumstances where either the historic or more recently reinforced behavior is reduced by other non-extinction related means (e.g., punishment, decreases in reinforcement rate, satiation, etc.). Here we present a theory of resurgence suggesting that the phenomenon results from the same basic processes governing choice. In its most general form, the theory suggests that resurgence results from changes in the allocation of target behavior driven by changes in the values of the target and alternative options across time. Specifically, resurgence occurs when there is an increase in the relative value of an historically effective target option as a result of a subsequent devaluation of a more recently effective alternative option. We develop a more specific quantitative model of how extinction of the target and alternative responses in a typical resurgence paradigm might produce such changes in relative value across time using a temporal weighting rule. The example model does a good job in accounting for the effects of reinforcement rate and related manipulations on resurgence in simple schedules where Behavioral Momentum Theory has failed. We also discuss how the general theory might be extended to other parameters of reinforcement (e.g., magnitude, quality), other means to suppress target or alternative behavior (e.g., satiation, punishment, differential reinforcement of other behavior), and other factors (e.g., non- contingent versus contingent alternative reinforcement, serial alternative reinforcement, and multiple schedules).
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