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Browsing Psychology - Faculty Research by Title
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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 ...