Hey, everyone. Welcome to yet another installment of the Inside Java series. This is number 16,

and this, of course, is the Behavioral Observations podcast, which I think this makes this technically session 234.

In this episode, John Barrera and I are joined by Dr. Jessica Nastassi and Nicole Gravina.

We discussed their recent Java publication, Bre in productivity, and exploratory analysis.

And I should also note that an additional author on that paper who wasn't able to join us is Isabella Ticistro.

And I have a link to that paper in the show notes of this episode if you want to go check it out.

And we discuss it pretty thoroughly here as well.

And in this episode, we cover quite a bit of territory, including what motivated this particular study.

The broader literature on breaks and productivity.

The novel research design that was employed in how the authors analyzed the data. One of the things

I also think is pretty cool is if you look at the reference list of this study, it's pretty

broad. It goes beyond, you know, there's, it spans everything from the experimental analysis

of behavior all the way through the Harbor Business Review and other,

you know, the journal Applied Psychology and things like that. So the, it's a great example of

looking beyond what we typically do in behavior analysis to really examine this issue.

To that point, though, because this is an inside Java series podcast,

we did spend some time talking about why this study was published in Java when other alternatives

were available. So I think you'll find this conversation really fascinating. And it would be great

to hear some feedback on this if you're a program supervisor and you're

trying to set up schedules and things like that.

And if you've got some experience in terms of managing breaks and things along those lines,

I'd love to hear about it.

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