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The initial experiments studying the effectiveness of behavior analysis on human subjects were published in the 1940s and '50s, including Paul Fuller's "Operant conditioning of a vegetative human organism" (1949).
In 1957, the Society for Experimental Analysis of Behavior (SEAB) was founded by a group of behavioral psychologists, including Skinner and [[Charles Ferster]], to publish a journal that focused on operant conditioning, and the following year, the first edition of the ''Journal of the
Teodoro Ayllon and [[Jack Michael]]'s study "The psychiatric nurse as a behavioral engineer" in 1959 was the first to employ the seven dimensions of ABA, which demonstrated how effective a [[token economy]] was in altering the aberrant behavior of hospitalized patients with schizophrenia and intellectual disability.<ref name="A study in the founding of applied"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Cooper |first1=JO |last2=Heron |first2=TE |last3=Heward |first3=WL |title=Applied Behavior Analysis |year=2019 |publisher=Pearson Education (US) |isbn=978-0134752556 |pages=11–14 |edition=3rd }}</ref><ref name=behavioralpsychiatricnurse>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ayllon T, Michael J | title = The psychiatric nurse as a behavioral engineer | journal = Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior | volume = 2 | issue = 4 | pages = 323–334 | date = October 1959 | pmid = 13795356 | pmc = 1403907 | doi = 10.1901/jeab.1959.2-323 }}
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