William M. Baum

University of California System — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

43h-index8.5kcitations156works1.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Behavioral and Psychological Studies(100), Child and Animal Learning Development(28), Autism Spectrum Disorder Research(25), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(16), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills(15)

Publications156 total

Explaining Performance on Interval and Ratio Schedules with a Molar View of Behavior
Perspectives on Behavior Science·2025Open Access
Cultural evolution in the laboratory: evolution of cooperative altruistic punishing
Evolutionary Human Sciences·2025Open Access
Understanding resurgence and other emergent activity with the laws of allocation, induction, and covariance
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
A molar view of goal direction and habit
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Introduction to Behavior
2023· 7 cited
Choice and rate-amount independence in a titration procedure
Behavioural Processes·2023Open Access
Science and Philosophy of Behavior
2022
Rate matching, probability matching, and optimization in concurrent ratio schedules
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Covariance, feedback, and discounting in ratio schedules
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Behavioral ephemera, difficult discriminations, and behavioral stability
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Dynamic detection for munitions response in powerline impacted areas using AGC sensors
Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems 2021·2021
Matching, induction, and covariance with mixed response‐contingent food and noncontingent food
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2021· 11 citedOpen Access
Resistance to extinction versus extinction as discrimination
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
Behavior, process, and scale: Comments on Shimp (2020), “Molecular (moment‐to‐moment) and molar (aggregate) analyses of behavior”
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Introduction to Molar Behaviorism and Multiscale Behavior Analysis
2021· 11 cited
Genes, Selection, and Behavior: Response to Laurenti’s Commentary
2021
Avoidance, induction, and the illusion of reinforcement
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2020· 22 citedOpen Access
Response–reinforcer contiguity versus response‐rate–reinforcer‐rate covariance in rats' lever pressing: Support for a multiscale view
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2020· 25 cited
Matching theory and induction explain operant performance
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior·2020· 16 cited
Editorial: The Many Faces of Behavioral Evolution
Behavioural Processes·2019
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Frequent Co-authors

Michael Davison(6), Howard Rachlin(3), Peter J. Richerson(3), Charles Efferson(3), Brian Paciotti(3), Carlos F. Aparício(3), Richard McElreath(2), Mark Lubell(2), Timothy M. Waring(2), John R. Kraft(2), Edward Edsten(1), John A. Nevin(1), Jed W. Schwendiman(1), Kenneth E. Bell(1), Ed Edsten(1), Jennifer L. Heath(1), Timothy J. Teyler(1), Michael M. Patterson(1)