Online digital networks, including social networks, have significantly impacted individuals’ personal and professional lives. Aside from exchanging news and topics of interest, digital networks play an essential role in the diffusion of information, whi
We ran an online social reinforcement learning task, on two large online cohorts with (n = 274) and without (n = 290) ASC, matched for gender, age and education. Participants had to indicate where they would sit in a waiting room. Each seat was associated with different probabili...
The curriculum utilized ABA-based methodologies, including shaping, incidental teaching, positive reinforcement, and visual schedules, as well as social stories and weekly parent-mediated homework assignments. Sessions focused on a specific social skill topic each week: greetings, emotions, conversations, ...
directly or indirectly. Examples of such interventions include wearing seatbelts to reduce vehicular accident casualties (e.g., Geller et al.,1989) and wearing face masks to mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 (e.g., Abaluck et al.,2021...
(e.g., training and coaching supports) required for staff to achieve the intended goals. In this way, public policy shapes behavior at the level of the group by creating contingencies of reinforcement for teachers and school leaders to engage in the necessary implementation behavior, while also ...
In operative conditioning, a dominant theme in the ABA approach is reinforcement: In particular, attention is focused on identifying the most effective reinforcements for a child and for a person. Reinforcements that are more effective are those linked to the child’s (person’s) interests and ...
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in social interaction and expressing and understanding emotions. Based on this, robots for children with ASD have been proposed. However, few studies have been conducted about how to design a soc