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Irrational beliefs of shoplifters

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1984
Shoplifting has become a serious problem for retail merchants and for the criminal justice system. In response to a local court's request for mental health intervention in this problematic area, the Lubbock Regional MHMR Center developed the Shoplifter Offenders Program (SOP), an innovative and novel approach designed to reduce recidivism among ...
G S, Solomon, J B, Ray
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Irrational Beliefs and Personality

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1978
This study investigated the relationship between irrational beliefs and the nonpathological personality characteristics origence and intellectence described by Welsh (1972, 1975b). The Adjective Check List (ACL) and the Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) were administered to 319 college students.
B D, Forman, S G, Forman
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Procrastination and Rational/Irrational Beliefs: A Moderated Mediation Model

Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy, 2019
The present study focuses on the integrated effect of self-doubt, rational and irrational beliefs, and fear of failure on procrastination in a sample of Turkish undergraduate students (N = 293).
Murat Balkis, Erdinc Duru, Duru Erdinc   +2 more
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Need for Cognition and Irrational Beliefs

Psychological Reports, 1997
A total of 149 college students, 48 men and 101 women, completed the Irrational Beliefs and the Need for Cognition scales to assess irrationality and the tendency to engage in effortful cognitive activity. Although substantial overlap between the constructs was found ( r = –.29, p < .001), the relationship was not linear.
J M, Mahoney, D, Kaufman
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Coping with Stress and Irrational Beliefs

Psychological Reports, 1982
The present study tested whether people who endorsed fewer beliefs which Ellis designates as irrational coped more efficiently with stressful life events. Results indicated that this was the case. They reinforce the opinion that stress-management programs should focus on cognitive factors.
T, Schill, A E, Adams, N, Ramanaiah
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Differential Correlates of Irrational Belief

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1985
One hundred and ten students completed a battery which included Jones' Irrational Belief Test (IBT), and measures of subjective well-being, affect, alienation, personality, goal characteristics, and goat attainment. Correlations and canonical composites showed a general relationship between irrational beliefs and emotional difficulty, but the specific ...
F W, Wicker, F C, Richardson, F B, Lambert   +2 more
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Irrational Beliefs and Psychological Needs

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1979
Studied the relationship between irrational beliefs and 15 psychological needs described by Murray. The Irrational Beliefs Test (IBT) and the Adjective Check List (ACL) were administered to 46 high school students and 50 adults. Results of stepwise multiple regression analyses indicated that five IBT scales and IBT Full-Scale were significantly ...
B D, Forman, S G, Forman
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Bulimia and irrational beliefs

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1986
Abstract This study tested the hypothesis that depressed mood and rigid perfectionistic beliefs are common among bulimics. It also examined the relations between bulimia and degree of overweight. Female college students completed the Bulimia Test (BULIT), the Rational Beliefs Inventory (RBI), the Cognitive Bias Questionnaire (CBQ), which yields ...
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Rationalizing Irrational Beliefs [PDF]

, 2006
In this paper, we re-examine various previous experimental studies of the Centipede Game in the literature. These experiments found that players rarely follow the subgame-perfect equilibrium strategies of the game, and various modifications to the game were proposed to explain the outcomes of the experiments.
Geoffrey Dunbar, Juan Tu, Ruqu Wang, Xiaoting Wang   +3 more
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Irrational action and irrational belief

Argumentation, 1988
Many philosophers agree with Socrates that it is not possible to perform an akratic action consciously and freely. They take this view because they assimilate the internal irrationality of such a performance to the internal irrationality of drawing a theoretical conclusion which contadicts one's premisses.
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