Hey everybody.

Welcome to ABA Inside Track Preview Edition before episode 57, I think.

We don't always do the episode numbers.

Hi, I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz.

And with me, as always, are my fabulous co-hosts.

Hey, Rob, it's Santa.

And it's Jackie.

Hello.

So this preview episode, for those of you who are new to our show,

is a great way to find out what full-length topic we'll be discussing in next week's full-length, super long episode.

And these are just kind of like little ones where we talk about the research that we will be reading, so you have a chance to read it yourself.

So you can join in on the discussion or talk to your radio, I guess, when you're listening.

And also to share a few things either from, you know, just kind of recent news that we feel like sharing or we feel

as important to share. So let's start by talking about our topic for next week. So next week,

we're going to be talking about contingencies, but not just about contingencies as a concept,

but contingencies and the idea of do we as

organisms or specifically humans, do we actually prefer when we are allowed to choose contingencies

or not? And so we'll be reading two articles that are going to try to answer or get towards

an answer to that question. Those articles, for those of you following along at home, are evaluation of client preference

for function-based treatment packages by Hanley, Piazza, Fisher, Contrucci, and Magliari from the

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1997.

And then we're also going to talk about a follow-up article do children prefer

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