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Long-Term Effects of Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis
(2012)A previous report explored the impact of a brief (four session) acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) intervention as compared with treatment as usual (TAU) on rehospitalization over 4 months in a sample of 80 inpatients ... -
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Longitudinal tDCS: Consistency across Working Memory Training Studies
(2017)There is great interest in enhancing and maintaining cognitive function. In recent years, advances in noninvasive brain stimulation devices, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), have targeted working ... -
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Measuring experiential avoidance: A preliminary test of a working model
(2004)The present study describes the development of a short, general measure of experiential avoidance, based on a specific theoretical approach to this process. A theoretically driven iterative exploratory analysis using ... -
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Measuring Weight Self-stigma: The Weight Self-stigma Questionnaire
(2010)Stigma associated with being overweight or obese is widespread. Given that weight loss is difficult to achieve and maintain, researchers have been calling for interventions that reduce the impact of weight stigma on life ... -
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Mediators of change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for pediatric chronic pain
(2011)Even though psychological interventions are well established in the treatment of pediatric chronic pain, there is a clear need for further development, especially with severely disabled patients. However, optimizing ... -
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Mindfulness: Method and process
(2003)Understanding the processes and principles that underlie mindfulness is a needed step, because this method enters into the armamentarium of empirical clinical psychology. Mindfulness is closely related to several procedures, ... -
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Modern psychotherapy as a multidimensional multilevel evolutionary process
(2015)Modern evidence-based psychotherapy can be understood by consideration of six key concepts from evolution science that have an impact on behavioral science: variation, selection, retention, dimensions, levels, and context. ... -
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Moral behavior and the development of verbal regulation
(1998)The present paper examines the relationship between the development of moral behavior and the development of verbal regulatory processes. Relational frame theory and the distinctions among pliance, tracking, and augmenting ... -
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On the Legibility of Mirror-Reflected and Rotated Text
(2017)We happened to observe that text that was reflected about either the horizontal or vertical axis was more difficult to read than text that was reflected about first one and then the other, which amounts to a 180-degree ... -
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Open, Aware, and Active: Contextual Approaches as an Emerging Trend in the Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
(2011)A wave of new developments has occurred in the behavioral and cognitive therapies that focuses on processes such as acceptance, mindfulness, attention, or values. In this review, we describe some of these developments and ... -
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Operationalizing mindfulness without unnecessary attachments
(2004)There are scientific advantages to defining mindfulness in terms of the psychological processes involved. Doing so, however, necessarily uncouples mindfulness from any given technology, including meditation. Defining ... -
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Optic flow detection is not influenced by visual-vestibular congruency
(2018)Optic flow patterns generated by self-motion relative to the stationary environment result in congruent visual-vestibular self-motion signals. Incongruent signals can arise due to object motion, vestibular dysfunction, or ... -
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Parietal Contributions to Visual Working Memory Depend on Task Difficulty
(2012)The nature of parietal contributions to working memory (WM) remain poorly understood but of considerable interest. We previously reported that posterior parietal damage selectively impaired WM probed by recognition (Berryhill ... -
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Perception, unconscious
(Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 2003)Unconscious perception involves the processing of sensory information by the brain in the absence of subjective awareness. The physical properties of sensory stimuli, their meaning, and their emotional significance, may ... -
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Prediction of junior faculty success in biomedical research: comparison of metrics and effects of mentoring programs
(2015)Measuring and predicting the success of junior faculty is of considerable interest to faculty, academic institutions, funding agencies and faculty development and mentoring programs. Various metrics have been proposed to ... -
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Prejudice, terrorism, and behavior therapy
(2002)Behavior therapy is relevant not just to the needs of victims of terrorism, but also to the understanding and modification of psychological processes that lead to the Perpetration of terrorist acts. A key Process of this ... -
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Preliminary Psychometric Properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II: A Revised Measure of Psychological Inflexibility and Experiential Avoidance
(2011)The present research describes the development and psychometric evaluation of a second version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II), which assesses the construct referred to as, variously, acceptance, ... -
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Prescription privileges for psychologists: Constituencies and conflicts
(2002)The pros and cons of the proposal to link prescription privileges specifically to psychological training vary from the point of view of the constituencies involved. The present article analyzes those differences. Two ...