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Characterizing relational operants
(2005)
Relational frame theory views specific types of arbitrarily applicable relational responding as relational operants. Doing so requires no assumptions of new processes, but it does require thinking of operants in functional ...
Expanding the scope of organizational behavior management: Relational frame theory and the experimental analysis of complex human behavior
(2006)
Behavior analysis in general and applied behavior analysis in particular requires a well developed, empirically Supported, and useful approach to human language and cognition in order to fulfill its mission of providing a ...
Creating a Strategy for Progress: A Contextual Behavioral Science Approach
(2009)
Behavior analysis is a field dedicated to the development and application of behavioral principles to the understanding and modification of the psychological actions of organisms. As such, behavior analysis was committed ...
Unpacking Masculinity as a Construct: Ontology, Pragmatism, and an Analysis of Language
(2010)
Understanding the target article requires clarity about the foundational assumptions of functional contextualism. In this article, we explain why adoption of a pragmatic truth criterion necessarily implies abandonment of ...
When knowing you are doing well hinders performance: Exploring the interaction between rules and feedback
(2006)
The effect of two types of verbal consequences, rule-following feedback and task performance feedback, on rule-induced insensitivity to programmed schedules of reinforcement were examined. Rule-following feedback could be ...
Climbing Our Hills: A Beginning Conversation on the Comparison of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(2008)
The history and developmental program of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and relational frame theory (RFT) is described, and against that backdrop the target article is considered. In the authors' comparison of ACT ...
Whatever gets your heart pumping: the impact of implicitly selected reinforcer-focused statements on exercise intensity
(2016)
This study investigated the impact of reinforcer-focused statements vetted by the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) on the intensity of participation in an exercise class. Using a relative heart rate measure, ...
Fleeing from the elephant: Language, cognition and post-skinnerian behavior analytic science
(2004)
The present set of papers show that leaders in the field of organizational behavior management are grappling with issues of human language and cognition. That is a good and necessary step for the field, but the solutions ...
Relational coherence in ambiguous and unambiguous relational networks
(2014)
Clinical theories often appeal to general cognitive styles in explaining psychopathology, but without describing in detail how the patterns are formed. In the present investigation, two experiments were conducted to examine ...
Psychological flexibility, ACT, and organizational behavior
(2006)
This paper offers organizational behavior management (OBM) a behavior analytically consistent way to expand its analysis of, and methods for changing, organizational behavior. It shows how Relational Frame Theory (RFT) ...