Hi folks, I have a question I have been pondering for a while and I wonder if people would like to comment. It is about the way we speak of defusion or the way...
Tough question, Niklas. I take the challenge. To begin with, I think, framing relationally and direct contingency processes are always intercalated. Taking...
Dear Students - I've just set up a listserv for student members of ACBS. I've sent an invitation to all the students who signed in at the SIG meeting on...
Hi Rainer, And thanks for answering. A few comments. In the first part of your reply you lift very much what I mean by nonarbitrary stimulusfunctions...
Hi Niklas, Rainer, Good question, and I agree it's relevant, in that many of us clinicians wonder with our adults which process to choose next. It gets a lot...
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Kelly Wilson
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Jun 2, 2008 2:31 pm
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Hi Kelly, Yes, I agree that the two processes described can both lead to defusion. And that does not answer my question about the relationship between the two...
Niklas This is an interesting issue. One comment I have is in regard to your suggestion as to why option 3 might be the best answer to the question of the...
Stewart, Ian
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Jun 5, 2008 3:18 pm
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Thanks Ian, for your comments. I appreciate that some of you experimental folks take the challange to discuss with us clinicians, even though our questions...
Hi Niklas, I wonder if both deliteralization and perspective taking have not one thing in common, namely objectification. When we objectify something we bring...
Thanks for several thoughtful answers/further questions! Two comments: I find it hard discussing things like these using the hexagone. At this level, it does...
Hi all - Self as context has been conceptualized as the result of a history of self-discriminations of an organism’s behavior (both including relational ...
From time to time there has been discussions on the ACT list on the relation of RFT to the older, Skinnerian, term of rule governed behavior. Steve, Rob Zettle...
ACBS membership will likely pass 1,000 today (its at 998 right now ... we have been going up about 40 members a week lately) There is something really neat...
Steven Hayes
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Jun 12, 2008 5:23 pm
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Cool. Happy 1000 ACBS. Would be neat to know how folks found out about ACBS. Here, I am curious about whether mention of ACBS, etc as part of workshops is ...
Some data for perspective: ABCT has approximately 4,700 professional and student members combined with the students comprising 45% of membership. It was...
Not that I need an excuse to have a drink, but this is cause for celebration! I'll be raising a toast tonight at 8pm Eastern to our collective efforts and the...
Hi all, I am still chewing on what Niklas brought up. It's fun and interesting. Accidentally, I just found this in the applied behavior analysis literature. ...
Very sorry for this too long post. As a professor of mine use to say, “Hank seems to have an operant at high strength.” Hank So far, it seems to me that...
Brief comments within email below. Before reading, please read my following Ego-Shielding Caveats (So much for "fully-and-without-defense" :-)): 1) I'm not an...
Hello all, Volume 1, issue two of the peer reviewed -open access journal- The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim: Treatment and Prevention is...
Hi everyone, I'm writing to request help with another project for the ACBS website. We've recently added several articles to the website. In the past we have...
Hi folks, I have often thought that ACT ideas could be translated into a cognitive account. The ACT and cognitive account would still be fundamentally...
Hi, I am about to read a book written by George Lakoff. The only mentioning of Lakoff in this lists I have found is by Steve in a mail of 2007/09/30. The...
Gerhard Kugler
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Jul 9, 2008 2:03 pm
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Hi Gerhard and all, My question is off of your point Gerhard, but I'm wondering if there is a meaningful difference between what you are talking about, quoted...
Audrey Lowrie
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Jul 9, 2008 11:30 pm
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Gerhard, it is ALL metaphor. Our brains work off processing of data in the form of frequencies and as such cover sensory harmonics where information is...
... if schemata are metaphorically working fixed (independent of situations) labels for self and his environment resp. the ralationship between them. My guess:...
Gerhard Kugler
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Jul 10, 2008 12:34 pm
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As you know in the RFT book "language acquisition" per se is dealt with in the RFT book only in a section on Chomsky and the nativist criticisms. There is a...