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Factors promoting and inhibiting the development and use of clinical practice guidelines
(2001)Several of the factors that are currently promoting or inhibiting the development and use of clinical practice guidelines are reviewed. While many factors are moving the field toward the use of guidelines, a great deal ... -
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Falsification and the protective belt surrounding entity-postulating theories
(2004)Meehl's article is a contradiction. In every area, he recognizes some of what is wrong and then advocates a course that will produce more of the same. He sees the problem with falsification and in essence advocates for its ... -
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Feasibility of a Prototype Web-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Prevention Program for College Students
(2014)Objective: This study examined the feasibility of a prototype Web-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) program for preventing mental health problems among college students. Participants: Undergraduate first-year ... -
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Feasibility of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Adjunctive Web-Based Program for Counseling Centers
(2015)Web-based adjunctive tools provide a promising method for addressing the challenges college counseling centers face in meeting the mental health needs of students. The current study tested an initial adjunctive prototype ... -
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Feature- and Face-Exchange Illusions: New Insights and Applications for the Study of the Binding Problem
(2014)The binding problem is a longstanding issue in vision science: i.e., how are humans able to maintain a relatively stable representation of objects and features even though the visual system processes many aspects of the ... -
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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 ... -
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From Flashes to Edges to Objects: Recovery of Local Edge Fragments Initiates Spatiotemporal Boundary Formation
(2016)Spatiotemporal boundary formation (SBF) is the perception of illusory boundaries, global form, and global motion from spatially and temporally sparse transformations of texture elements (Shipley and Kellman, 1 993a, 1994 -
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Frontoparietal tDCS Benefits Visual Working Memory in Older Adults With Low Working Memory Capacity
(2018)Working memory (WM) permits maintenance of information over brief delays and is an essential executive function. Unfortunately, WM is subject to age-related decline. Some evidence supports the use of transcranial direct ... -
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The Future of Intervention Science: Process-Based Therapy
(2018)Clinical science seems to have reached a tipping point. It appears that a new paradigm is beginning to emerge that is questioning the validity and utility of the medical illness model, which assumes that latent disease ... -
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Getting to dissemination
(2002)The combination of a stage model of psychotherapy and treatment manualization has been a major step forward in treatment development and efficacy testing, but not in dissemination. I argue that the technological model of ... -
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Goal-driven selective attention in patients with right hemisphere lesions: How intact is the ipsilesional field?
(Brain, 2006)Patients with right hemisphere (RH) lesions often display a spatial bias in attention towards the ipsilesional hemifield. The behavioural manifestations of this spatial bias are typically interpreted as reflecting increased ... -
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Haptic Shape Processing in Visual Cortex
(Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2014)Humans typically rely upon vision to identify object shape, but we can also recognize shape via touch (haptics). Our haptic shape recognition ability raises an intriguing question: To what extent do visual cortical shape ... -
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Hits and Misses: Leveraging tDCS to Advance Cognitive Research
(2014)The popularity of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques in basic, commercial, and applied settings grew tremendously over the last decade. Here, we focus on one popular neurostimulation method: transcranial direct ... -
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How reliable are the effects of self-control training?: A re-examination using self-report and physical measures
(2017)In light of recent challenges to the strength model of self-control, our study re-examines the effects of self-control training on established physical and self-report measures of self-control. We also examined whether ... -
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Humanistic Psychology and Contextual Behavioral Perspectives
(2012)Humanistic psychology historically defined itself in part by its opposition to behavioral psychology, but the conditions now exist for a fundamental reconsideration of the relationship between these two traditions. Behavioral ... -
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Hume's psychology, contemporary learning theory, and the problem of knowledge amplification
(2001)The problem of explaining the growth of knowledge has a long history among philosophers. David Hume rejected a logic of knowledge amplification and offered a psychological, rather than a logical, solution. Hume's naturalistic ... -
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Impact of acceptance and commitment therapy versus education on stigma toward people with psychological disorders
(2007)Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has previously been shown to alter stigmatizing attitudes and to be relatively useful for psychologically inflexible participants. The present study is the first to bring those two ... -
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Impaired visual sensitivity within the ipsilesional hemifield following parietal lobe damage
(Cortex, 2013)The parietal cortex is considered to be part of a network of brain areas that modulates competitive interactions between targets and irrelevant distracters in early visual cortex, however there is currently little causal ...
