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Deadline: February 5, 2025
Applicants Notified: June, 2025
Purpose: To provide funding for students in psychology or behavior analysis doctoral programs and students in psychology or behavior analysis master's programs that can support applied or basic research in the experimental analysis of behavior.
Grants Available: Up to six doctoral dissertation grants of up to US$5,000 each are available as well as up to six thesis grants of up to US$2,500 each. The amount awarded will vary and expenses must be clearly detailed in the proposed budget statement. Preference will be given to grants involving translational research.
Additional Information: The Innovative Student Research Grant, formerly called the SABA Experimental Analysis of Behavior Grant, was created in 2000 to encourage study in the experimental analysis of behavior. The SABA endowment is funded by many generous donations from members of ABAI.
These grants are intended to facilitate promising student research projects in behavior analysis. Proposals must be written clearly and concisely, address a question that would be viewed as important outside the behavior analytic community, and be methodologically rigorous.
Grant recipients will be publicly recognized at the SABA Awards Ceremony at the ABAI Annual Convention and in Inside Behavior Analysis.
Grant Application Details
Review of Applications: The ABAI Science Board administers the grant process, and the SABA Board of Directors chooses the grant recipients.
Eligibility Criteria:
Doctoral
(1) Applicants must be enrolled or have been accepted in a doctoral program in a department of psychology, education, behavioral science, or an allied discipline in which there is a sufficient number of behaviorally oriented faculty members to supervise the proposed research.
(2) Applicants must have at least one full academic year remaining in the program and sufficient time to complete the project after the grant application deadline.
Master’s
(1) Applicants must be enrolled or have been accepted in a master’s program in a department of psychology, education, behavioral science, or an allied discipline in which there is a sufficient number of behaviorally oriented faculty members to supervise the proposed research.
(2) Applicants must have at least one full academic year remaining in the program and sufficient time to complete the project after the grant application deadline.
All applicants
(1) Applicants must provide evidence of their commitment to basic or applied research in behavior analysis.
(2) Applicants may not apply for an Innovative Student Research Grant and a Bijou Grant in the same year.
Conditions of Award: Grant recipients agree to provide a brief report on what the grant was used for, along with an outline of expenditures. This report is due to the SABA Board by April 1 of the following year.
Previous Recipients
2024 GRANT RECIPIENTS
Master's Thesis Grant
Daniel Da Silva Project: The Rat Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (RENDS): Effects of Age on Self-administration of Inhaled Nicotine in Female Rats
Omar Elwasli Project: Evaluating the Effects of Varying Reinforcer Dimensions during Differential Reinforcement without Extinction on Resurgence in a Human-Operant Model
Katherine Garland Project: Producing Defections in an Animal Model of Impulsive Choice
Connor Lambert Project: Effects of Probabilistic Win-Paired Cues on Risky Choice in Rats
Kyleigh Montague Project: Evaluating effects of number of context exposures on renewal following multiple-context training
Janae’ Pendergrass Project: Evaluating Possible Interactions between Problem Behavior and Pain and Discomfort States
Doctoral Dissertation Grant
Haylee Downey Project: Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes: an experimental marketplace approach to study individual-level beverage purchasing and beverage tax design
Williams Espericueta Luna Project: Best of Both Worlds: Combining Artificial Intelligence and Behavior Analytic Technology to Improve Ergonomic Postural Performance
Fernando Molines Project: Temporal organization of behavior in the inter-reinforcement interval: a 'superstitious' chaining hypothesis
Paige O’Neill Project: A Parametric Evaluation of Treatment Integrity Level and Error Type During DRO
Marlon Palomino Project: In search of the basic processes that control the Extinction Burst: An experimental project with highly translational implications
Mallory Udell Project: Depression as a risk factor for enhanced alcohol use: insights from a rat model of voluntary alcohol consumption in a social setting
This grant has been awarded annually since 2002. View past research grant recipients here and past thesis and dissertation grant recipients here.
