We have talked about resurgence. We have talked about renewal. We have even talked about renewal mitigation strategies. But these authors noted a hole in the research and went to fix it. That hole is the lack of study on renewal when it comes to automatically maintained behavior. In fact, most of the summary papers that examine trends excluded this response class. However, this paper focuses solely on renewal when the behavior is maintained by nonsocial reinforcement, and they identify some key differences, and similarities, in the way that renewal affects behaviors that are automatically maintained. Read, and listen, on and we will walk through each one of them!

Muething, C., Call, N., Ritchey, C. M., Pavlov, A., Bernstein, A. M. & Podlesnik, C. A. (2022). Prevalence of relapse of automatically maintained behavior resulting from context changes. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 55(1), 138-153. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.887