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Michael F. Dorsey

Researcher at Endicott College

Publications -  26
Citations -  5699

Michael F. Dorsey is an academic researcher from Endicott College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Applied behavior analysis. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 26 publications receiving 5343 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael F. Dorsey include Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Simmons College.

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Toward a functional analysis of self-injury

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the use of an operant methodology to assess functional relationships between self-injury and specific environmental events, including play materials (present vs absent), experimenter demands (high vs low), and social attention (absent vs noncontingent vs contingent).
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Toward a functional analysis of self-injury.

TL;DR: Results showed a great deal of both between and within-subject variability, however, in six of the nine subjects, higher levels of self-injury were consistently associated with a specific stimulus condition, suggesting that within- subject variability was a function of distinct features of the social and/or physical environment.
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The functions of self‐injurious behavior: an experimental‐epidemiological analysis

TL;DR: Overall results indicated that functional analysis methodologies are extremely effective in identifying the environmental determinants of SIB on an individual basis and, subsequently, in guiding the process of treatment selection.
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Reliability analysis of the Motivation Assessment Scale: a failure to replicate.

TL;DR: The reliability of the Motivation Assessment Scale was reexamined with two independent groups of developmentally disabled individuals who exhibited SIB, and it showed that only 16 of the 55 raters agreed on the category of reinforcement maintaining their client's or student's SIB.