Grayson Butcher

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

ICE crossed a line in LA

So… lots to sift through. Lattal (2010) mentions several studies (section “behavioral processes in delay of reinforcement”). Lattal has a lot on delayed reinforcement. Iversen (1981) caught my eye. Lattal notes delay often studied as tandem “whatever”+ FT schedule. Looks like “mediating” is used too

Yup, I understand! I’ll look for some specific studies to share tonight. I suspect that most studied delayed reinforcement in the context of non-FR1 schedules (e.g., FR>1, VR, FI, VI) and only investigated changing distribution of lever pressing (but maybe other topographies were studied too).

Oh, fun question! I imagine behavior analysts studied this, but I’m not sure. Maybe stuff from John Staddon, William Timberlake, David Schaal, Charles Catania, stuff in adjunctive/interim behavior is close to this too. Maybe Peter Killeen has looked at it. Curious which studies you’re thinking of.