Countercontrol: A Relational Frame Theory (RFT) Account and Revival of a 70-Year-Old Skinnerian Term. [PDF]
Perspect Behav Sci, 2022 Countercontrol is a Skinnerian operant concept that posits that an individual's attempts to exert control over another person's behavior may evoke a countercontrolling response from the person being controlled that functions to avoid or escape the potentially aversive conditions generated by the controller.
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Functional contextual implementation of an evolutionary, entropy-based, and embodied free energy framework: Utilizing Lagrangian mechanics and evolutionary game theory’s truth vs. fitness test of the veridicality of phenomenological experience [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The Bayesian approach of cognitive science largely takes the position that evolution drives perception to produce precepts that are veridical. However, some efforts utilizing evolutionary game theory simulations have shown that perception is more likely ...
Darren J. Edwards
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A Functional Contextual Account of Background Knowledge in Categorization: Implications for Artificial General Intelligence and Cognitive Accounts of General Knowledge [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Psychology has benefited from an enormous wealth of knowledge about processes of cognition in relation to how the brain organizes information. Within the categorization literature, this behavior is often explained through theories of memory construction ...
Darren J. Edwards +2 more
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Ensuring Effective Public Health Communication: Insights and Modeling Efforts From Theories of Behavioral Economics, Heuristics, and Behavioral Analysis for Decision Making Under Risk [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Public health (PH) messaging can have an enormous impact on shaping how individuals within society behave, and can ensure it is in a safe and responsible way, consistent with up-to-date evidence-based PH guidelines.
Darren J. Edwards
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Facing yourself in a virtual reality-assisted perspective-taking intervention: an interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionPeople's self-narratives—how they relate to themselves and others—are closely intertwined with psychological suffering and wellbeing. This study investigates a perspective-taking intervention rooted in Relational Frame Theory (RFT), where ...
Essi Sairanen, Daniel Wallsten
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Gender Is the Name of the Frame: Understanding Gender through the Lens of Relational Frame Theory
Social Sciences, 2023 While researchers continue to develop their understanding of gender as a complex and multifaceted concept, the detrimental impact of gender-related inequity and social injustice persists.
Lynn Farrell +2 more
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Relational Frame Theory (RFT): An Empirical Approach to Language and Cognition
Journal of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and Research, 2023 The effort of understanding human language and cognition, which distinguishes humans from other organisms and provides them with the opportunities they have on earth, dates back to ancient times. In line with this effort a theory of language and cognition, which is fairly comprehensive and has empirical support, has been developed based on a functional
Merve lu, Kaas Yavuz
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Psychological flexibility and attitudes toward evidence-based interventions by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Objective Declining a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) or non-invasive ventilation (NIV) by people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is often contrary to advice provided by health-care-professionals guided by evidence-based principles ...
James R. Pearlman +1 more
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From Relational Frame Theory to implicit attitudes and back again: clarifying the link between RFT and IRAP research [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2015 Relational Frame Theory (RFT) is a functional-analytic account of human language and cognition, including human psychopathology. The core premise of the theory is that language and cognition is composed of relational acts. Over the past 10 years, the theory has served to generate the development of a measure, known as the Implicit Relational Assessment
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Impairments in executive functioning are prevalent in chronic pain conditions, with cognitive inflexibility being the most frequently reported. The current randomized, cross-over trial, piloted a computerized cognitive training (CCT) program based on ...
Henrik B. Jacobsen +5 more
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