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Unpacking Masculinity as a Construct: Ontology, Pragmatism, and an Analysis of Language
(2010)Understanding the target article requires clarity about the foundational assumptions of functional contextualism. In this article, we explain why adoption of a pragmatic truth criterion necessarily implies abandonment of ... -
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Using acceptance and commitment training in the support of parents of children diagnosed with autism
(2006)Parents of autistic children face enormous challenges, but very little attention has been paid to their psychological needs. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has previously been tested with parents as part of a ... -
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Verbal establishing stimuli: Testing the motivative effect of stimuli in a derived relation with consequences
(2008)The present study examined whether the presentation of stimuli in equivalence relations with consequences increases the operant behavior that produces these consequences. In Experiment 1, both normal words and experimentally ... -
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Vestibulo-Ocular Responses and Dynamic Visual Acuity During Horizontal Rotation and Translation
(2019)Dynamic visual acuity (DVA) provides an overall functional measure of visual stabilization performance that depends on the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), but also on other processes, including catch-up saccades and likely ... -
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Visual adaptation and the amplitude spectra of radiological images
(2018)We examined how visual sensitivity and perception are affected by adaptation to the characteristic amplitude spectra of X-ray mammography images. Because of the transmissive nature of X-ray photons, these images have ... -
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Visual adaptation reveals an objective electrophysiological measure of high-level individual face discrimination
(2017)The ability to individualize faces is a fundamental human brain function. Following visual adaptation to one individual face, the suppressed neural response to this identity becomes discriminable from an unadapted facial ... -
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Visualizing Visual Adaptation
(2017)Many techniques have been developed to visualize how an image would appear to an individual with a different visual sensitivity: e.g., because of optical or age differences, or a color deficiency or disease. This protocol ... -
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Web-Based Self-Help for Preventing Mental Health Problems in Universities: Comparing Acceptance and Commitment Training to Mental Health Education
(2016)ObjectiveThis study sought to test the feasibility of a web-based Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) prototype prevention program called ACT on College Life (ACT-CL). MethodA sample of 234 university students was ... -
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Whatever gets your heart pumping: the impact of implicitly selected reinforcer-focused statements on exercise intensity
(2016)This study investigated the impact of reinforcer-focused statements vetted by the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) on the intensity of participation in an exercise class. Using a relative heart rate measure, ... -
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When knowing you are doing well hinders performance: Exploring the interaction between rules and feedback
(2006)The effect of two types of verbal consequences, rule-following feedback and task performance feedback, on rule-induced insensitivity to programmed schedules of reinforcement were examined. Rule-following feedback could be ... -
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Why behavior analysts should study emotion: The example of anxiety
(1998)Historically, anxiety has been a dominant subject in mainstream psychology but an incidental or even insignificant one in behavior analysis. We discuss several reasons for this discrepancy. We follow with a behavior-analytic ... -
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Why it is crucial to understand thinking and feeling: An analysis and application to drug abuse
(2000)Behavior analysis has long accepted the legitimacy of the analysis of private events in a natural science of behavior. However the topic has languished as a focus of empirical research in either applied or basic arenas. ... -
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Why managed care is ripe for market-oriented behavior therapy - Since the operant chamber: Is behavior therapy still thinking in boxes? Commentary
(1997)Chorpita (1997) has rightly diagnosed a significant problem. In the 1980s and 1990s behavior therapy has progressed, in part, because it embraced the technological model of treatment development, but that model cannot take ...