Hello all, The open access journal JEIBI 4.2 www.behavior-analyst-online.org is now available... here is the index to this edition: Page 377: Editorial -...
Hi all My student, Matteo Cella, has spare bed in his room in the Marriott Hotel in San Diego. The Marriott was one of the first overflow hotels and is...
Hi all, Do forgive the trumpet-blowing, but I thought that (some) folks might like to hear about a study that Bryan Roche, John Forsyth, Robert Whelan, Julia...
Hi All. Amy Murrell, Karen O'Brien, and I are hosting a workshop at ABA with the intent of fostering more research in the areas of ACT and RFT. This workshop...
A note to all you ACBS members and a nudge for non-members to consider joining. For the second time in history it's time for ACBS nominations/elections! In the...
It looks like contextually controlled discriminative responding. I couldn't see any mention in the article even of relational responding, let alone arbitrarily...
Stewart, Ian
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May 16, 2007 2:34 pm
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In einer eMail vom 16.05.2007 16:35:53 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt ian.stewart@...: (language trained chimps and other animals have been...
Hi Rainer, Here are two good refs for that - Dugdale, N., & Lowe, C. F. (2000). Testing for symmetry in the conditional discrimination of language trained...
Stewart, Ian
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May 16, 2007 7:46 pm
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Forwarded without comment. The floor is open - S...
For those who are interested I have attached Hayes, 1993, which is I think the first place that functional contextualism was described. I got this version from...
The article does not state at any point that I can see that the goal of Functional Contextualism is prediction and influence. I am quite sure I have never...
Tony Biglan
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May 20, 2007 11:01 pm
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RE: I know of no way to logically derive a set of values for issues like sustainability and aggression against others from the goal of prediction and ...
Empirically the two are in fact related ... (acceptance of self / acceptance of others): we have known that since the 1950's Revenge is a perfect example of...
Past issues of the behavioral development bulletin are now going up at www.behavior-analyst-online.org As always with BAO, we present this material as open...
Just to pick up on your comments Joseph about doing ACT in schools from grade 1 to 12. This is a valid idea to consider for the future - an ACT school...
Well, I have read the article and I just don't get it. The article seems to be warning us that we should worry about some group of functional contextualists...
Kelly Wilson
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May 22, 2007 2:17 pm
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Something else I thought of today. First some background FC is defined by its stated goals as you note. This is never said in the paper, instead an entirely...
My comments on the R&R article are on a slightly different slant than those so well addressed by Steve, Kelly, Tony and others… From the very beginning of...
Hi all - there is no ACBS meeting on the schedule at ABA, but I would like to have an informal gathering of ACBS folks in San Diego. Let's meet immediately...
Kelly Wilson
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May 24, 2007 4:38 pm
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Hi Y'all, I hope the folks who were at ABA had safe travels home. I've added a page to the ContextualPsychology web-site as a place for us to post information,...
Hello all, The latest issue of the open access journal the International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy 3.2 is now available online at: ...
I believe there have been two kinds of augmentals described. I don't think values would qualify as a motivative augmentals but only as formal augmentals. On...
Values CAN be based on aversives, in the case of a rule governed augmental sense of the term. However, I don't think that we would chose to accept an aversive...
As regards an intuition, I think of that as the verbal label for a situation in which a non-verbal discrimination is made. A - 'How did you know to do X?' B -...
Stewart, Ian
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Jun 14, 2007 10:07 pm
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Comments requested on the question of "wordless" relational frames. Bill ... From: robbhb@... [mailto:robbhb@...] Sent: Thursday, June 14,...
Jonathan, Nico, Further on the elaboration of stimulus control referred to by Jonathan, the non arbitrary relations of similarity could cue arbitrarily ...
Stewart, Ian
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Jun 14, 2007 10:08 pm
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Suppose I see a painting of van Gogh, e.g. 'Wheat field with Cypresses'. Later I drive trough the south of France and see a landscape with cypresses, which...