Amanda
Mahoney
Amanda Mahoney
- Campus: Online
- Department: Applied Behavior Analysis
- Institution: The Chicago School
- Office Phone: 312-488-6027
Biography
Dr. Mahoney is Full Professor in the Behavior Analysis program with the Online Campus. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from Western Michigan University in 2012. Dr. Mahoney has extensive experience working with children with disabilities in residential, home, and public school settings and spent nearly four years working with an East African nonprofit training rats in scent detection tasks. Dr. Mahoney is passionate about behavior analytic research and dissemination. She has published and presented work in a variety of areas including verbal behavior, supporting challenging behavior, organizational behavior management, and animal training. She is currently Associate Editor of The Psychological Record. She was previously Associate Editor of Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, an APA-published journal, has served as guest editor for The Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and has served as a reviewer for several behavior analytic journals. Current areas of interest include stimulus categorization and equivalence particularly in the areas of fairness and equality, translational research, choice, applied animal behavior, and behavior change of groups and societies.
Education History
Degree Institution Year Ph.D. Western Michigan University , Kalamazoo, MI 2012 M.S. Northeastern University , Boston, MA 2007 B.S. Western Michigan University , Kalamazoo, MI 2004 Professional Memberships
Role Organization Member Association for Behavior Analysis International Presentations
Title Location Date Exploring the effects of preference assessment outcomes on environmental enrichment devices with loggerhead sea turtles (caretta caretta). Association for Behavior Analysis International 47th Conference. May 2021 Using joint control to teach activities of daily living and vocational tasks to students with autism Association for Behavior Analysis International 47th Conference. May 2021 The use of immersive video modeling as a method of staff training in therapeutic staff. Association for Behavior Analysis International 47th Conference. May 2021 What’s fair? A repeated measures demonstration of human preference for inequality despite personal loss Culturo-Behavior Science Conference, New Orleans, LA. September 2020 Assessing client preference for errorless or error correction procedures within the Picture Exchange Communication System Association for Behavior Analysis International, Washington, D.C. May 2020 Effects of a rhyming distractor on trained and untrained stimulus relations in a delayed match-to-sample task Presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis International, Washington, D.C. May 2020 Behavioral skills training for the visual analysis of behavior data on treatment decisions by staff and clinicians in an acute psychiatric hospital Association for Behavior Analysis International, Washington, D.C. May 2020 Behavior Analytic Study of Narrative Identity: the What, Why, and How. Behavior Analysis Association of Michigan, Ypsilanti, MI. Areas of Expertise
Area Expertise Psychology Subdisciplines - Applied Behavior Analysis Publications
Chapter Poling, A., Austin, J. L., Peterson, S. M., Mahoney, A., & Weeden, M. (2012). Ethical issues and considerations. In J. L. Matson (Ed.) Functional assessment for challenging behaviorsNew York: Springer.
Journal Kelly, S. & Mahoney, A (in p). Systematic literature review of the use of single subject design research within foster care. Behavior and Social Issues, ,
Zheng, T., Albright, L., & Mahoney, A. (2025). The use of behavioral skills training to teach staff discrete trial teaching.. Behavioral Interventions, 40 ,
Bulla, A., Mahoney, A., Lee, V., Dumont, D., & Kovalanchik, V. (2024). The effect of preference assessment-informed enrichment device colour on biting and foraging behaviour in loggerhead sea turtles.. Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research, 12 , 232-242.
O'Donnell, S. A., Philp, A. C., & Mahoney, A. (2021). Direct versus indirect competition in sports: A review of behavioral interventions.. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 21 (3), pp. 293-313.
Li, A., Mahoney, A., & Poling, A. (2018). Basic research in behavior analysis. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 18 , 117-118.
Mahoney, A. (2017). A comparison of escalating versus fixed reinforcement schedules on undergraduate quiz taking. Journal of Behavioral Education, 27 , 1-13.
LaLonde, K., Mahoney, A., Edwards, T., Cox, C., Weetjens, B., Durgin, A., & Poling, A. (2015). Training pouched rats to find people. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 48 , 1-10.
Mahoney, A., Edwards, T., Lalonde, K., Cox, C., Weetjens, B., Poling, A. (2014). Landmine-detection rats: An evaluation of reinforcement procedures under simulated operational conditions. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 101 , 450-456.
Durgin, A., Mahoney, A., Cox, C., Weetjens, B., Poling, A. (2014). Using task clarification to improve staff performance in an East African nongovernmental organization. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 34 , 122-143.
Walmsley, C., Mahoney, A., Durgin, A., Poling, A. (2013). Improving hygiene within a special needs young adult program. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 34 , 95-101.
Esch, J., Mahoney, A., Lalonde, K., Kestner, K., Esch, B. (2013). Echoic and self-echoic responses in typically-developing children.. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 29 , 51-53.
Mahoney, A., Weetjens, B., Cox, C., Jubitana, M., Kazwala, R., Mfinanga, G. S., Durgin, A., Poling, A. (2012). Giant African pouched rats as detectors of tuberculosis in human sputum: Comparison of two techniques for sputum presentation. The Psychological Record, 63 , 583-594.
Mahoney, A. M., Poling, A. (2011). Sexual abuse prevention for people with severe developmental disabilities. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 23 , 369-376.
Mahoney, A. M., Miguel, C. M., Ahearn, B. A., Bell, J. (2011). The role of common motor responses in categorization by preschool children. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 95 , 237-262.
Moher, C.M., Gould, D.D., Hegg, E.M., and Mahoney, A.M. (2008). Non-generalized and generalized conditioned reinforcers: establishment and validation. Behavioral Interventions, 23 , 13-38.
Weeden, M., Mahoney, A., Poling, A. (2010). Self-injurious behavior and functional analysis: where are the descriptions of participant protections?. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 31 , 299-303.
Media Exposure
Appearance Autism Parenting Magazine
