As a lab, we value the dissemination of psychological research—both our own and that of folks both inside and outside the field. Below are the various research conferences that our labbies typically attend in some capacity (e.g., presenting, chairing, volunteering, etc.). For any current conference planning or other conferencing resources, visit the Conference Planning webpage on this site.
Upcoming:
LaMiss 2026 Conference
Virtual Conference
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52nd Annual Convention
San Francisco, CA
May 21-25, 2026
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6th Annual Conference
Virtual
January 28 - 31, 2026
Upcoming:
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*Denotes labbie authorship
🌟 Histories of harm: Factors associated with acknowledgement of nonconsensual sexual experiences
Jacob Norris*, Aime Zarling, J Criddle*, Cassidy Boudreaux*, Karly Daigle*, Wesley Malvini*
🌟 Hidden Meaning: Examining Values, Valued Living, and Values Interventions through a Colonial Lens
Eva Lieberman*, Olga Berkout, Jessica Criddle*, Janani Vaidya*, Thomas Sease*, Vanessa Del Aguila Vargas*
🌟 From Leaning In to Letting Go: Empirical Investigations into State of Surrender
Caleb Jean*, Rick Perkins*, Matt Andersland*, Lauren Venable*, Hunter Sudduth*
🌟 Rethinking Reinforcement: Interbehavioral Insights and Implications for Practice
Linda Parrott Hayes, Mitch Fryling, Emily Sandoz*, Claudia Drossel, Abbey Warren*
🌟 Regulation, Resilience, and Recovery: Unpacking Psychological Flexibility’s Role in Mental and Physical Health
Ryan Albarado, Abbey Warren*, Brendan Skinner, Kishan Desai, Natalie Tadros, Jason Lillis
🌟 TRANScending Adversity: Lifting Up LGBTQ+ Communities and Tackling Systemic Barriers to Well-Being
LaGriff Griffin*, Eva Lieberman*, Jordan Schroeder, Allie Mann, Abbey Warren*, Matt Skinta
🌟 Clinic to Classroom to Lab: Emerging Human Operant Research
Matt Andersland*, Caleb Jean*, Brad Parfait*, Jacob Norris*, Alison Stapleton
🌟 Integrating Mindfulness Concepts and Practices within Applied Behavior Analysis
MaKensey Sanders*, Robyn Catagnus, Kate Kellum*, Victoria Hutchinson*, Cassidy Rock, Worner Leland*
🌟 Both/And: Interbehavioral Conceptualizations of Philosophical Paradoxes
MaKensey Sanders, Michael May, Janani Vaidya, Worner Leland, Wesley Malivini
💬 Flexing Forward: Reimagining Psychological Flexibility
Jacob Norris*, Michael May*, Emily Sandoz*, Jennifer Gregg
💬 Beyond Normativity: Rethinking Behavioral Approaches for Minority Groups
Steven Hayes, Matt Skinta, Sonia Singh, Janani Vaidya*, Natasha Marroquin*, Jennifer Kemp
💬 ACT Within The Therapeutic Relationship: Interpersonal Processes of Change
Lou Lasprugato, Robyn Walser, Jim Lucas, Manuela O'Connell, Michael May*
💬 Interbehaving about Interbehaviorism: A Question and Answer Panel
Matthew Andersland*, Emily Sandoz*, Mitch Fryling, Karen Kate Kellum, Linda Parrott Hayes
💬 Centering science: Professional development and mentorship in ACBS throughout the academic career trajectory
Samuel Spencer, Akihiko Masuda, Brandon Gaudiano, Emily Sandoz*, Clarissa Ong, Robert Zettle
💬 Finding the Functional Fit: Exploring Cultural Adaptation of ACT
Lauren Venable*, Mst Tajlima Tamanna*, Yukie Kurumiya, Robert Zettle, Vanessa Del Águila Vargas*
👥 Your Voice, Your Impact: Working Together to Make a Difference with ACBS (Workshop)
Robyn Walser, Rhonda Merwin, Emily Sandoz*, Alison Stapleton, Manuela O'Connell
🎤 Radical Responsibility (or Opening Doors): a concept to revitalise our orientation to context
Jacob Waite*
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Cañón, L., Kellum, K., May, M., Parfait, B., Pyke, N., & Warren, A. (July 2023). Interbehaviorism in Application: Post-Kantorian Implications for the Contextual Behavioral Clinician-Scientist. Presentation at the Louisiana-Mississippi (LaMiss) ACBS 2023 Virtual Conference.
Carr, D., DuFrene, T., Gould, E., Lasprugato, L., & Sandoz, E. (July 2023). Variation with Vignettes - Special Edition: Back to Basics with Clinical Behavior Analysis. Roundtable at the Louisiana-Mississippi (LaMiss) ACBS 2023 Virtual Conference.
Albarado, R., Fiebig, J., Gould, E., Kaplan-Reimer, H., Ming, S., & Parfait, B. (July 2023). Starting from Psychological Flexibility and Prosociality: Where are we going as contextual behavior scientists?. Community Discussion at the Louisiana-Mississippi (LaMiss) ACBS 2023 Virtual Conference.
Sandoz, E. (July 2023). All Appetitive All the Time: Convolving Breadth and Flexibility of Functional Relations. Keynote presentation at the Louisiana-Mississippi (LaMiss) ACBS 2023 Virtual Conference.
Leland, W. (July 2023). Responsibility with Power, Assent, and Trust Building. Keynote presentation at the Louisiana-Mississippi (LaMiss) ACBS 2023 Virtual Conference.
Albarado, R. & LeBleu, E. (July 2023). ML, AI, and Therapy Oh My: A Discourse on the Impact of Advanced Machine Learning on the Therapeutic Professions and Paths Forward. Overview and Discussion at the Louisiana-Mississippi (LaMiss) ACBS 2023 Virtual Conference.
Andersland, M., Kellum, K., May, M., Parfait, B., Pyke, N., & Warren, A. (May 2023). Interbehaviorism in Application: Post-Kantorian Implications for the Clinician-Scientist. Presentation at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Denver, CO.
Cassella, M., Heyman, C., Kaplan-Reimer, H., & Vaidya, J. (May 2023). Putting Into Practice: Practical Strategies for Creating a Compassionate Context in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Panel at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Denver, CO.
DeLacerda, J., DuFrene, T., Jean, C., Parfait, B., Pyke, N., & Veal, J. (May 2023). Not-So-Private Events: Behavioral Conceptualizations of Thoughts, Feelings, and Their Interactions With Other Actions. Presentation at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Denver, CO.
Kaplan-Reimer, H., Kolu, T., Leland, W., Sandoz, E., Santacroce, M., & Vaidya, J. (May 2023). All Appetitives All The Time: The Case for Centering Freedom In Behavior Analysis. Presentation at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Denver, CO.
Bhambhani, Y., Criddle, J., Griffin, L., Larson, A., & Vaidya, J. (June 2022). In Pursuit of Universal Wellbeing: Psychological Flexibility and Gender and Sexual Minoritized Individuals. Presentation at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Borgogna, N., DeLacerda, J., Donahue, J., Eadeh, H., & Spencer, S. (June 2022). Psychometric Hexa-dancing: Innovations in the validation of self-report measures spanning core ACT processes. Presentation at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Cañón, L., Carr, D., Gould, E., May. M, Sandoz, E. & Warren, A. (June 2022). Clinicians' Perspectives on Clinical Behavior Analytic Case Conceptualization: Clinical Behavior Analysis SIG Sponsored. Panel at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Coreil, A., DuFrene, T., Garnos, H., Kaplan, H., Lasprugato, L., Sandoz, E., & Zube, M. (June 2022). Learning from Each Other: Advancing the Dialog between Psychotherapists and Behavior Analysts: Clinical Behavior Analysis SIG Sponsored. Panel at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Coyne, L., Griffin, L., May, M., Sanders, M., Sandoz, E., & Vaidya, J. (June 2022). Getting Our House In Order: An Internal Contextual Behavioral Science Critique. Presentation at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Gould, E., Friman, P., LeJeune, J., Sandoz, E., & Wilson, K. (June 2022). More Than a Feeling: Contextual Approaches to Understanding and Intervening on Appetitive Control. Panel at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Gould, E., May, M., Sease, T., Volchko, H, & Warren A. (June 2022). Enter Interbehaviorism: Examining the Applied Utility of Interbehavioral Philosophy. Presentation at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Josh DeLacerda, J., Kraus, C., Miller, M., & Sease, T. (June 2022). The Drama of Trauma: Conceptualizing and Destigmatizing the Buzzword. Presentation at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Lieberman, E., May, M., Miller, M., Sanders, M., Sandoz, E., & Vaidya, J. (June 2022). Functional Vulnerability: Navigating Consensual Intimacy Across Differentials of Power and Privilege. Workshop at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
Andersland, M., Sanders, M., Sease, T., & Warren, A. (May 2022). Illusions of Abnormality: A Behavioral Conceptualization of "Deviant" Behavior in Context. Presentation at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Massachusetts, MA.
Kellum, K., Lieberman, E., May, M., Parfait, B., Sease, T., & Volchko, H. (May 2022). Enter Interbehaviorism: Examining the Applied Utility of an Interbehavioral Philosophy. Presentation at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Massachusetts, MA.
Auzenne, J., Canon, L., Kaplan-Reimer, H., & Warren, A. (May 2022). Going "Soft": Exploring Compassion, Mindfulness, and the Therapeutic Relationship in Applied and Clinical Behavior Analysis. Presentation at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Massachusetts, MA.
Cassella, M., Goodwyn, L., Kaplan-Reimer, H., & Sadavoy, J. (May 2022). Not Just a Buzzword: Conceptual Analyses and Practical Applications of Compassion in Behavior Analysis. Panel at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Massachusetts, MA.
Cathey, A., Canon, L., May, M., &Sandoz, E. (May 2022). Clinical Behavior Analysis: Conceptualizing and Intervening Upon "Psychopathology" from a Behavior Analytic Perspective. Panel at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Annual Convention, Massachusetts, MA.
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