Rafaela Fontes, Ph.D.

• Utah State University, Ph.D., Psychology
• University of Brasilia, Ph.D., Behavioral Sciences
• Unversity of Brasilia, M.S., Behavioral Sciences
• University of Sergipe, B.A., Psychology

Visiting Researcher, Laboratory of Biobehavioral Analysis, University of São Paulo

Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Utah State University

Fulbright Visiting Researcher, Department of Psychology, Utah State University

Top Downloaded Article for “Punishment and its putative fallout: A reappraisal," Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Wiley, 2022

Anthony LaPray Scholarship, Department of Psychology, Utah State University, 2021-2022                   

Walter R. Borg Scholarship and Research Productivity Award, Department of Psychology, Utah State University, 2020-2021                   

Ray Alvord Scholarship, Department of Psychology, Utah State University, 2019-2020                  

SABA Senior Student Presenter Grant, Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, 2018                            

Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, Fulbright & CAPES Brazil, 2016-2017                   

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BOOK CHAPTERS

Fontes, R. M., & Ferreira, D. C. S. (2020). Personalidade em uma perspectiva analítico-comportamental: considerações sobre métodos de avaliação psicológica. In J. C. Todorov (Ed.), Comportamento e Cultura: Análise de Interações (pp 50-66). Brasília, DF: Technopolitik.

Fontes, R. M., & Todorov, J. C. (2020). Controle de estímulos e contraste comportamental emu ma tarefa de cooperação. In J. C. Todorov (Ed.), Comportamento e Cultura: Análise de Interações (pp 67-89). Brasília, DF: Technopolitik.

Todorov, J. C., & Azevedo, R. M. F. (2016). Clarice Lispector, tempo e consequências: considerações sobre contraste comportamental. In: Soares, P. G., Almeida, J. H., & Cançado, C. R. X. (Org.). Experimentos Clássicos em Análise do Comportamento. Brasília: Editora do Insitituto Walden 4, 64- 77.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Fontes, R. M., & Shahan, T. A. (2022). Effects of repeated exposure to escalating versus constant punishment intensity on response allocation. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 118(1), 59–82. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.766

Fontes, R. M., & Shahan, T. A. (2021). Punishment and its putative fallout: A reappraisal. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 115(1), 185–203. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.653

Fontes, R. M.*, Todorov, J. C., & Shahan, T. A. (2018). Punishment of an alternative behavior generates resurgence of a previously extinguished target behavior. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, 110(2), 171–184. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.465

Azevedo, R. M. F., & Todorov, J. C. (2016). Controle de estímulos e contraste comportamental em uma tarefa de cooperação. Revista Brasileira de Análise do Comportamento, 12, 95-105.

*Last name changed from Azevedo to Fontes in 2017