Bryan Klapes

Bryan Klapes completed his undergraduate and graduate training at Emory University, where he received his PhD in Psychology studying quantitative behavioral analysis. During his undergraduate training, Bryan also became a Certified Nursing Assistant and worked at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta, finding his work with children in the Emergency Department especially rewarding. He completed his practicum work at Emory, working with both adults and children experiencing a range of psychiatric and psychological concerns. After graduate school, Bryan decided to pursue medicine and psychiatry, and studied at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has published 17 manuscripts, including seven first author publications. Bryan was named a board officer for the Society for the Quantitative Analysis of Behavior and remains interested in applying his background in this area to psychiatric populations during his residency training and beyond.

• Hometown: Hampton, NH
• Professional Interests: Consultation-liaison psychiatry, functional neurological disorders, specifically psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, punishment and aversive conditioning and quantitative analysis of human behavior
• Future Plans: Academic medicine and consultation-liaison psychiatry
• Memberships: Board Officer (Membership Coordinator), Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior
• Hobbies:n Playing and watching baseball, vegan cooking and baking, reading and watching television

• DO, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine – Georgia Campus, 2024
• BS, Emory University, 2013

• Klapes B, & McDowell JJ. (2024). A Contemporary Quantitative Model for Continuous Choice under Reinforcing and Punishing Contingencies. [Manuscript submitted for publication].
• Klapes B, Falligant JM, & Hagopian LP. (2023). Modeling and quantifying resurgence in the Evolutionary Theory of Behavior Dynamics. Behavioural Processes, 208, 104860.
• Klapes B, & McDowell JJ. (2023). Punishment in a Procedure for Rapidly Establishing Steady-State Behavior: A replication. The Psychological Record. 
• McDowell JJ, Klapes B, & Arashanapalli S. (2023). A test of the evolutionary theory’s account of punishment superimposed on single-alternative schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 119(1), 117-128.
• Falligant JM, Hagopian LP, Laureano B, & Klapes B. (2022). Examining resurgence and repetition with the Evolutionary Theory of Behavior Dynamics. Behavioural Processes, 203, 104776.   
• Klapes B, Ginalis CL, & McDowell JJ. (2022). Corrigendum to: Methodological improvements to a procedure for rapidly establishing steady-state behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 118(1), 170-173. 
• Falligant JM, Klapes B, & Hagopian LP. (2022). Modeling resurgence with an Evolutionary Theory of Behavior Dynamics. Behavioural Processes, 197, 104623. 
• Klapes B, Calvin OL, & McDowell JJ. (2022). Corrigendum to: A discriminated rapid-acquisition laboratory procedure for human continuous choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 117(2), 267-269. 
• Cox DJ, Klapes B, & Falligant JM. (2021). Scaling N from 1 to 1,000,000: Application of the generalized matching law to big data contexts. Perspective on Behavior Science, 44(4), 641-665.  
• Klapes B, Ginalis CL, & McDowell JJ. (2021). Methodological improvements to a procedure for rapidly establishing steady-state behavior. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 115(3), 747-768. 
• McDowell JJ, & Klapes B. (2020). All behavior is choice: Revisiting an evolutionary theory’s account of behavior on single schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 114(3), 430-446.
• Klapes B, Calvin OL, & McDowell JJ. (2020). A discriminated rapid-acquisition laboratory procedure for human continuous choice. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 114(1), 142-159.
• McDowell JJ, & Klapes B. (2019). An implementation of punishment in the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 112(2), 128-143. 
• McDowell JJ, & Klapes B. (2018). An evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics applied to concurrent ratio schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 110(3), 323-335. 
• Klapes B, Riley S, & McDowell JJ. (2018). Toward a contemporary quantitative model of punishment. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 109(2), 336-348. 
• McDowell JJ, Calvin OL, Hackett R, & Klapes B. (2017). Falsification of matching theory and confirmation of an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics in a critical experiment. Behavioural Processes, 140(1), 61-68.
• McDowell JJ, Calvin OL, & Klapes B. (2016). A survey of residual analysis and a new test of residual trend. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 105(3), 445-458. 
• Lerner HM, Klapes B, Mummert A, & Cha ES. (2016). Body size perception and ideal body size in overweight and obese young adult women. Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 21(3), 487-492.