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Text Box: N.B. The Theory was previously referred to as a “computational model of selection by consequences”, “a computational theory of behavior dynamics”, etc. All expressions talk about the same thing, with the same implementation. Throughout the years out understanding of the theory evolved, and the vocabulary evolved with it. McDowell, J. J (in press). On the theoretical and empirical status of the matching law and matching theory. Psychological Bulletin. Kulubekova, S. & McDowell, J. J (in press). Computational model of selection by consequences: Patterns of preference change on concurrent schedules. McDowell, J. J. (2012). Minding Rachlin’s Eliminative Materialism. The Behavior Analyst, 35, 17–27. Berg, J. P., & McDowell, J. J (2011). Quantitative, steady-state properties of Catania's computational model of the operant reserve. Behavioural Processes, 87, 71-83. McDowell, J. J. (2010). Behavioral and neural Darwinism: Selectionist function and mechanism in adaptive behavior dynamics. Behavioural Processes, 84, 358–365. McDowell, J. J, & Caron, M. L. (2010). Matching in an undisturbed natural human environment. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 93, 413-431. (a) McDowell, J. J, & Caron, M. L. (2010). Bias and undermatching in delinquent boys' verbal behavior as a function of their level of deviance. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 93, 469-481. (b) McDowell, J. J & Popa, A. (2010). Toward a mechanics of adaptive behavior: Evolutionary dynamics and matching theory statics. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 94, 241-260. Popa, A., & McDowell, J. J (2010). The effect of Hamming distances in a computational model of selection by consequences. Behavioural Processes, 2010, 84, 428-434. McDowell, J. J & Popa, A. (2009). Beyond continuous mathematics and traditional scientific analysis: Understanding and mining Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. Behavioural Processes, 81, 343-352. Kulubekova, S., & McDowell, J. J (2008). A computational model of selection by consequences: Log survivor plots. Behavioural Processes, 78, 291-296. McDowell, J. J, Caron, M. L., Kulubekova, S., & Berg, J. P. (2008). A computational theory of selection by consequences applied to concurrent schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 90, 387-403. McDowell, J. J, & Caron, M. L. (2007). Undermatching is an emergent property of selection by consequences. Behavioural Processes, 75, 97-106. McDowell, J. J. (2004). A computational model of selection by consequences. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 81,297–317.

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