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	Progettazione AB in Doppio Cieco	Progettazione ABAB
Campo	Disegno sperimentale	Disegno sperimentale
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1960s (AB design); double-blinding integration in single-case clinical research from the 1980s–1990s	1960s (Sidman 1960; Baer et al. 1968)
Ideatore	Derived from the AB single-subject design tradition (Sidman 1960; Baer, Wolf, & Risley 1968) combined with double-blinding conventions from clinical trial methodology	Murray Sidman; Baer, Wolf & Risley (applied behavior analysis formalization)
Tipo	Single-subject experimental design with double-blinding	Single-subject experimental design
Fonte seminale	Kazdin, A. E. (1982). Single-Case Research Designs: Methods for Clinical and Applied Settings. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0195030440	Sidman, M. (1960). Tactics of Scientific Research: Evaluating Experimental Data in Psychology. Basic Books.
Alias	blinded AB design, double-blind single-case AB, masked AB design, double-blind baseline-intervention design	reversal design, withdrawal design, ABAB reversal, operant reversal design
Correlati	5	4
Sintesi	The double-blind AB design is a single-subject experimental approach that sequences a baseline phase (A) and an intervention phase (B) while concealing phase allocation from both the participant and the outcome assessor. It merges the idiographic focus of single-case methodology with the bias-control mechanism of double-blinding, making it especially useful in clinical rehabilitation, pain research, and behavioral medicine when objective measurement of an individual's response to treatment is the primary goal.	The ABAB design is a single-subject experimental methodology that establishes causal control by repeatedly introducing and removing an intervention. A baseline phase (A) is followed by an intervention phase (B), then a return to baseline (A), and a second intervention phase (B), allowing the researcher to demonstrate that observed behavior changes are produced by the intervention rather than by coincidental factors.