CONCURRENT RESURGENCE AND BEHAVIORAL HISTORY

Resurgence of integrated behavioral units.

Two experiments with rats examined the dynamics of well-learned response sequences when reinforcement contingencies were changed. Both experiments contained four phases, each of which reinforced a 2-response sequence of lever presses until responding was stable. The contingencies then were shifted to a new reinforced sequence until responding was again stable. Extinction-induced resurgence of p...

A model of resurgence based on behavioral momentum theory.

Resurgence is the reappearance of an extinguished behavior when an alternative behavior reinforced during extinction is subsequently placed on extinction. Resurgence is of particular interest because it may be a source of relapse to problem behavior following treatments involving alternative reinforcement. In this article we develop a quantitative model of resurgence based on the augmented mode...

Behavioral Economics, History of

This article reviews the historical development of behavioral economics, with an emphasis on how it has become part of mainstream economics. First I describe the separation between economics and psychology as a historical background against which behavioral economics emerged. Then I introduce critiques of expected utility theory (EUT), and explain how behavioral decision research developed usin...

Behavioral finance: Its history and its future

Predation Risk and Behavioral Life History