Relational Frame Theory

Hughes, Sean; Barnes‐Holmes, Dermot

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“…In addition to drawing on research on the impact of relational networks on motivation (Hughes & Barnes-Holmes 2016 ), kernels that expand relational networks about PAX are consistent with research in social psychology that shows the value of participation in decision-making for motivating behavior (Zimmerman & Rappaport 1988 ) and on evidence that humans are more likely to engage in specific behaviors when they associate those behaviors with important values (Cialdini & Goldstein 2004 ; Deci & Ryan 2008 ). This is also congruent with the vast research on self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci 2008 ) that emphasizes autonomy and relatedness as key factors to facilitate motivation.…”

Section: Cultivating Relational Network That Support Prosocial Behavsupporting

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The PAX Good Behavior Game: One Model for Evolving a More Nurturing Society

Johansson

Biglan

Embry³

2020

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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This paper describes the culture and components of the PAX Good Behavior Game and offers it as one model for how to enhance the well-being of populations through the diffusion of nurturing practices into several venues of society. The PAX components, also known as evidence-based kernels, are proposed to be useful in classrooms, families, organizations, criminal justice, and in improving public discussion and government. Kernels affect behavior in the short- and long-term through combinations of antecedents, reinforcers, relational networks, and physiological effects. Identifying common strategies, tools, and clear targets of change is suggested as a way to work towards evolving freely available evidence-based tools that can be combined to improve social conditions in multiple contexts.

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Section: Cultivating Relational Network That Support Prosocial Behavsupporting

confidence: 52%

The PAX Good Behavior Game: One Model for Evolving a More Nurturing Society

Johansson

Biglan

Embry³

2020

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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“…First, the IRAP is a challenging task to complete, even in respondents who are highly familiar with computerized (reaction-time) tasks. The first phase of an IRAP typically consists of a number of practice blocks in which participants are required to reach a certain threshold in terms of average speed (typically between 2000 ms and 5000 ms) and accuracy (typically between 65 % and 80 %, for a review, see Hughes & Barnes-Holmes, 2013 ). After the practice phase, participants can continue with the actual test phase of the IRAP only if both criteria are met.…”

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“…Compared to the normal error rates and average response speed in the associative implicit measures, these criteria are rather liberal. Still, attrition rates of 20% or more are common in IRAP research (e.g., Remue et al, 2013 ; see Hughes & Barnes-Holmes, 2013 , Table 1 , for an overview). Clearly, if it is to be of value outside of the laboratory, implicit measures of ideal and actual body should preferably be less demanding to complete than the standard IRAP.…”

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“…As second point of concern, one may note that the reliability of the IRAP is limited. In a review of 27 IRAP studies ( Hughes & Barnes-Holmes, 2013 ), good internal consistency estimates were observed only if the training criteria for the practice blocks were quite liberal (i.e., mean response latencies between 3000 ms and 5000 ms, error rates between 65 % and 70 %; e.g., Barnes-Holmes, Murtagh, Barnes-Holmes, & Stewart, 2010 ; Campbell, Barnes-Holmes, Barnes-Holmes, & Stewart, 2011 ; Drake et al, 2010 ). This observation may be problematic because social desirability and impression management concerns are more likely to affect task performance as participants are given more time to respond on each individual trial.…”

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Body Dissatisfaction Revisited: On the Importance of Implicit Beliefs about Actual and Ideal Body Image

Heider¹,

Spruyt²,

Houwer

2018

PSYCHOL BELG

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Body dissatisfaction (i.e., a negative attitude towards one’s own physical appearance) is assumed to originate from a perceived discrepancy between the actual physical appearance (i.e., actual body image) and the desired ideal state of the body (i.e., ideal body image). We assessed implicit beliefs about these two aspects of the body image independently using two Relational Responding Tasks (RRT) in a sample of participants who were either low or high in explicitly reported body dissatisfaction. As hypothesized, differences in body dissatisfaction exerted a differential influence on the two RRT scores. The implicit belief that one is thin was less pronounced in participants who were strongly dissatisfied with their body relative to participants who were more satisfied with their body. The implicit desire to be thin (i.e., thin ideal body image), in contrast, tended to be more pronounced in participants who exhibited a high degree of body dissatisfaction as compared to participants who exhibited a low degree of body dissatisfaction. Hierarchical regression analyses also revealed that the RRT scores were predictive of self-reported body dissatisfaction, even over and above the predictive validity of some (but not all) explicit predictors of body dissatisfaction that were included in the present study. More generally, these findings contribute to the empirical validation of the RRT as a measure of implicit beliefs in the context of body dissatisfaction.

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“…Humans can learn to relate stimuli in many ways, from equivalence and opposition, to comparison, temporality, conditionality, hierarchy, analogy and deixis (or perspective-taking) (see Hughes & Barnes-Holmes, 2016a). The way in which people relate stimuli and the functions transformed through those relations is controlled by stimuli ('contextual cues') in the environment.…”

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A contextual behavioral approach to the study of (persecutory) delusions

Stewart

Hughes

2016

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

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Throughout the past century the topic of delusions has mainly been studied by researchers operating at the mental level of analysis. According to this perspective, delusional beliefs, as well as their emergence and persistence, stem from an interplay between (dysfunctional) mental representations and processes. Our paper aims to provide a starting point for researchers and clinicians interested in examining the topic of delusions from a functional-analytic perspective. We begin with a brief review of the research literature with a particular focus on persecutory delusions. Thereafter we introduce Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS), Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and a behavioral phenomenon known as arbitrarily applicable relational responding (AARR). Drawing upon AARR, and recent empirical developments within CBS, we argue that (persecutory) delusions may be conceptualized, studied and influenced using a functional-analytic approach. We consider future directions for research in this area as well as clinical interventions aimed at influencing delusions and their expression.

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Relational Frame Theory

Cited by 38 publications

References 141 publications

The PAX Good Behavior Game: One Model for Evolving a More Nurturing Society

The PAX Good Behavior Game: One Model for Evolving a More Nurturing Society

Body Dissatisfaction Revisited: On the Importance of Implicit Beliefs about Actual and Ideal Body Image

A contextual behavioral approach to the study of (persecutory) delusions

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