Recent Publications
Hackenberg, T. D., Vanderhooft, L., Huang, J., Wagar, M., Alexander, J., & Tan, L. (2021). Social preference in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
Vanderhooft, L., Tan, L., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2019). Demand for social contact in rats: Toward a quantitative analysis of social reinforcement value. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 45, 330-358.
Hackenberg, T. D. (2018). Token reinforcement: Translational research and application. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 51, 393-435.
Hiura, L., Tan, L., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2018). To free or not to free: Social reinforcement effects in the social-release paradigm with rats. Behavioural Processes, 152, 37-46.
Morales, I., Currie, P. J., Hackenberg, T. D., & Pastor, R. (2017). Opioidergic and dopaminergic modulation of cost/benefit decision-making in Long Evans rats. Physiology and Behavior, 179, 442-450.
Andrade, L.F., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2017). Substitution effects in a generalized token economy with pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 107, 123-135.
Tan, L., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2016). Functional Analysis of Mutual Behavior in Laboratory Rats (Rattus norvegicus), Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130, 12-23.
Tan, L., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2015). Pigeons' Demand and Preference for Specific and Generalized Conditioned Reinforcers in a Token Economy. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 104, 296-314.
Bullock, C.E., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2015). The several roles of stimuli in token reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 103, 269-287.
DeFulio, A., Yankelevitz, R. L., Bullock, C. E., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2014). Generalized conditioned reinforcement with pigeons in a token economy. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. 102, 26-46.
Hackenberg, T. D. (2014). The outside story: A review of Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds by Louise Barrett. The Behavior Analyst, 37, 125-131.
Tan, L., Sosa, F., Talbot, E., Berg, D., Eversz, D., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2014). Effects of predictability and competition on group and individual choice in a free-ranging foraging environment. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 101, 288-302.
Hackenberg, T. D. (2013). What has happened to Skinner’s empirical epistemology? The Behavior Analyst, 36. 277-281.
Macaskill, A., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2013). Optimal and non-optimal choice in a laboratory-based sunk-cost task with humans: A cross-species replication. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 100, 301-315.
Avila, R. S., Yankelevitz, R. L., Gonzalez, J. C., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2013). Varying the costs of sunk costs: Optimal and non-optimal choices in a sunk-cost task with humans. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 100, 165-173.
Hackenberg, T. D. (2013). From demand curves to public policy: Introduction to the Special Issue on Behavioral Economics. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 99, 1-2.
Tan, L., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2012). Social foraging in rats: Group and individual choice in dynamic environments. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 38, 87-105.
Lagorio, C. H., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2012). Risky choice in pigeons: Preference for amount variability using a token-reinforcement system. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 98, 139-154.
Andrade, L.F., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2012). Saving the best for last? A cross-species analysis of choice between reinforcer sequences. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 98, 45-64.
Miras, A. D., Jackson, R. N., Jackson, S. N., Goldstone, A. P., Olbers, T., Hackenberg, T. D., Spector, A. C., & le Roux, C. W. (2012). Gastric bypass surgery for obesity decreases the reward value of a sweet-fat stimulus as assessed in a progressive-ratio task. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 96, 467-473.
Macaskill, A., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2012). Providing a reinforcement history that reduces the sunk-cost effect. Behavioural Processes, 89, 212-218.
Macaskill, A., & Hackenberg, T.D. (2012). The sunk cost effect with pigeons: Some determinants of decisions about persistence. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 97, 85-100.