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Binge Eating and Weight Control: The Role of Experiential Avoidance
(2011)Two thirds of the adults in the United States are overweight or obese. Binge eating is a barrier to treatment adherence and sustained weight loss, and can be seen as a form of experiential avoidance. The current study ... -
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Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Exposure for Panic Disorder: A Pilot Study
(2012)Cognitive and biobehavioral coping skills are central to psychosocial therapies and are taught to facilitate and improve exposure therapy. While traditional coping skills are aimed at controlling maladaptive thoughts or ... -
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Bringing the real world into the fMRI scanner: repetition effects for pictures versus real objects
(Scientific Reports, 2011)Our understanding of the neural underpinnings of perception is largely built upon studies employing 2-dimensional (2D) planar images. Here we used slow event-related functional imaging in humans to examine whether neural ... -
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Burnout among the addiction counseling workforce: The differential roles of mindfulness and values-based processes and work-site factors
(2011)Although work-site factors have been shown to be a consistent predictor of burnout, the importance of mindfulness and values-based processes among addiction counselors has been little examined. In this study, we explored ... -
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Central Perceptual Load Does Not Reduce Ipsilesional Flanker Interference in Parietal Extinction
(Neuropsychology, 2008)In healthy individuals, filtering of distractors improves when the perceptual difficulty, or load, of a central task increases. Following an earlier study by Lavie and Robertson (2001), this study examined whether increasing ... -
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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 ... -
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Clients' in-session acceptance and cognitive defusion behaviors in acceptance-based treatment of tinnitus distress
(2009)Cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) is considered to be an effective treatment of distress associated with tinnitus (perception of internal noises without any Outer auditory stimulation), but the processes by which the ... -
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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 ... -
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Cognition in behavior therapy: Agreements and differences
(1997)The issue of cognition has often been divisive among behavior therapists. Typically the debate has centered around the causal status of cognition. Cognitive psychologists have argued for the causal efficacy of cognition, ... -
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Cognitive defusion and self-relevant negative thoughts: examining the impact of a ninety year old technique
(2004)Cognitive defusion techniques are designed to reduce the functions of thoughts by altering the context in which they occur, rather than the attempting to alter the form, frequency, or situational sensitivity of the thoughts ... -
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Collaborating on evolving the future
(2014)We thank the commentators for an extraordinarily diverse and constructive set of comments. Nearly all applaud our goal of sketching a unified science of change, even while raising substantive points that we look forward ... -
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Color Vision 2018: Introduction by the feature editors
(2018)This feature issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) reflects the basic and applied research interests of members of the color vision community. Most of the articles stem from presentations at the ... -
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Color vision: introduction by the feature editors
(2016)This feature issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) reflects the basic and applied research interests of members of the color vision community. Most of the articles stem from presentations at the ... -
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Comparing experiential acceptance and cognitive reappraisal as predictors of functional outcome in individuals with serious mental illness
(2013)Background: Two psychological regulation strategies to cope with psychotic symptoms proposed by the cognitive behavioral tradition were examined in this study: cognitive reappraisal and experiential acceptance. Although ... -
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Comparing Japanese International College Students' and US College Students' Mental-Health-Related Stigmatizing Attitudes
(2009)This study examined differences between Japanese international college students and U.S. college students on stigma toward people with psychological disorders, stigma tolerance in help seeking, and self-concealment. Japanese ... -
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Context Modulates Congruency Effects in Selective Attention to Social Cues
(2018)Head and gaze directions are used during social interactions as essential cues to infer where someone attends. When head and gaze are oriented toward opposite directions, we need to extract socially meaningful information ... -
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Contribution of Bodily and Gravitational Orientation Cues to Face and Letter Recognition
(Multisensory Research, 2015)Sensory information provided by the vestibular system is crucial in cognitive processes such as the ability to recognize objects. The orientation at which objects are most easily recognized — the perceptual upright (PU) — ... -
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Cooperation Came First: Evolution and Human Cognition
(2014)Contextual behavioral perspectives on learning and behavior reside under the umbrella of evolution science. In this paper we briefly review current developments in evolution science that bear on learning and behavior, ... -
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Correspondence regarding two recent publications in npj: schizophrenia about DNAm and accelerated aging in schizophrenia
(2017)We read with interest the recent reports by McKinney et al.1 and Voisey et al.2 Using ‘the Horvath clock’ of DNA methylation (DNAm) in prefrontal cortex1 and superior temporal gyrus,2 both studies reported no evidence of ...