Steven C. Hayes

THE GREATEST DANGERS FACING BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS TODAY (9999)

Steven C. Hayes

Behavior analysis is the underclass of psychology. It is under-funded, under-taught, and underappreciated. A lot is happening that is positive, but just beneath the surface, there are grave...

Phenomenology and Modern Behavioral Psychology (2009)

Lindsay B. Fletcher, Steven C. Hayes

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - Volume 15, Number 3, September 2008

Experiential Avoidance and Superstition: Considering Concepts in Context (2009)

Roger Vilardaga, Steven C. Hayes

Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology - Volume 15, Number 3, September 2008

Philosophical, theoretical and empirical foundations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2007)

Roger Vilardaga, Steven C. Hayes, Leif Schelin

This article has two main purposes. The first one is to present the philosophical, theoretical, and empirical underpinnings of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The second is to outline the...

Why relational frame theory alters the relationship between basic and applied behavioral psychology (2006)

Steven C. Hayes, Nicholas M. Berens

Why relational frame theory alters the relationship between basic and applied behavioral psychology

Características de las operantes relacionales (2005)

René M. Quiñones, Steven C. Hayes

La teoría de los marcos relacionales considera tipos específicos de respuestas relacionales aplicables arbitrariamente como operantes relacionales. Lo cual no requiere suponer nuevos procesos, pero...

Relational Frame Theory: Some Implications for Understanding and Treating Human Psychopathology (2004)

Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne, Barnes-Holmes, Dermot, McHugh, Louise, Hayes, Steven C.

In the current paper, we attempt to show how both the basic and applied sciences of behavior analysis have been transformed by the modern research agenda in human language and cognition, known as...

Relational Frame Theory: Some Implications for Understanding and Treating Human Psychopathology (2004)

Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne, Barnes-Holmes, Dermot, McHugh, Louise, Hayes, Steven C.

In the current paper, we attempt to show how both the basic and applied sciences of behavior analysis have been transformed by the modern research agenda in human language and cognition, known as...

Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis (2003)

Pankey, Julieann, Hayes, Steven C.

Aunque varios tratamientos farmacológicos están disponibles para las personas con síntomas psicóticos positivos, estos síntomas continúan a menudo incluso cuando toman la medicación. Los...

Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis (2003)

Pankey, Julieann, Hayes, Steven C.

Aunque varios tratamientos farmacológicos están disponibles para las personas con síntomas psicóticos positivos, estos síntomas continúan a menudo incluso cuando toman la medicación. Los...

THE GREATEST DANGERS FACING BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS TODAY (2001)

Steven C. Hayes

Behavior analysis is the underclass of psychology. It is under-funded, under-taught, and underappreciated. A lot is happening that is positive, but just beneath the surface, there are grave...

Mixing Metaphors: Skinner, Chomsky, and the analysis of Verbal Events (1992)

Steven C. Hayes, Linda J. Hayes

Moerk’s analysis of the similarities between Skinner’s and Chomsky’s position fails to deal adequately with the major philosophical differences between cognitive and behavior...

Relational operants: processes and implications: a response to Palmer's review of Relational Frame Theory.

Hayes, Steven C, Barnes-Holmes, Dermot

Palmer has recently criticized Relational Frame Theory (RFT) on the grounds that it has developed data in search of a principle. In this reply, we show that he has done so by attacking fundamental...

Correlation between self-reported rigidity and rule-governed insensitivity to operant contingencies

Wulfert, Edelgard, Greenway, David E., Farkas, Paula, Hayes, Steven C., Dougher, Michael J.

Adults were selected on the basis of their scores on the Scale for Personality Rigidity (Rehfisch, 1958a). Their scores served as a measure of hypothesized rule governance in the natural environment....

Self-reinforcement effects: An artifact of social standard setting?

Hayes, Steven C., Rosenfarb, Irwin, Wulfert, Edelgard, Munt, Edwin D., Korn, Zamir, Zettle, Robert D.

Two studies were conducted to identify mechanisms responsible for observed “self-reinforcement” effects. In Experiment 1, using a studying task, self-reinforcement procedures did not work when...

The technical drift of applied behavior analysis

Hayes, Steven C., Rincover, Arnold, Solnick, Jay V.

Four dimensions (applied, analytic, general, conceptual) were selected from Baer, Wolf, and Risley's (1968) seminal article on the nature of applied behavior analysis and were monitored throughout...

Reduction of residential consumption of electricity through simple monthly feedback

Hayes, Steven C., Cone, John D.

Feedback has been widely used in efforts to control the consumption of electricity. Previous efforts, however, have used forms of feedback that seem economically impractical. The present study...

Reducing residential electrical energy use: payments, information, and feedback1

Hayes, Steven C., Cone, John D.

Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce electricity use in four units of a university student housing complex. A combined multiple-baseline...

The nature of behavioral assessment: A commentary

Nelson, Rosemery O., Hayes, Steven C.

This special issue of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis provides the reader with a sample of current work in behavioral assessment. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of...

The marked item technique: a practical procedure for litter control1

Hayes, Steven C., Johnson, V. Scott, Cone, John D.

Unobtrusively marked items of litter were placed among existing trash on the grounds of a federal youth correctional facility. Inmates voluntarily collected trash and deposited it at a central...

The transfer of specific and general consequential functions through simple and conditional equivalence relations

Hayes, Steven C., Kohlenberg, Barbara S., Hayes, Linda J.

The purpose of this study was to examine the transfer of consequential (reinforcement and punishment) functions through equivalence relations. In Experiment 1, 9 subjects acquired three three-member...

Escape from freedom: Choosing not to choose in pigeons

Hayes, Steven C., Kapust, Jeffery, Leonard, Susan R., Rosenfarb, Irwin

Preference for the availability of food-reinforcement alternatives was investigated with Rachlin and Green's (1972) concurrent-chains self-control paradigm. The terminal link of one chain made...

Transfer of a conditional ordering response through conditional equivalence classes

Wulfert, Edelgard, Hayes, Steven C.

Eight adult humans were taught conditional discriminations in a matching-to-sample format that led to the formation of two four-member equivalence classes. When subjects were taught to select one...

Nonhumans have not yet shown stimulus equivalence

Hayes, Steven C.

Recently, two published articles have reported finding stimulus equivalence in nonhumans. One suggested that equivalence was due to the mediation of names. The procedure used trained all components...

Stimulus equivalence and rule following

Hayes, Linda J., Thompson, Scott, Hayes, Steven C.

The present study examined the occurrence of a novel behavior pattern with respect to a novel configuration of stimuli enabled by the participation of those stimuli in equivalence classes. In...

Rule-governed behavior and sensitivity to changing consequences of responding

Hayes, Steven C., Brownstein, Aaron J., Zettle, Robert D., Rosenfarb, Irwin, Korn, Zamir

Humans were presented with a task that required moving a light through a matrix. Button presses could produce light movements according to a multiple fixed-ratio...

Instructions, multiple schedules, and extinction: Distinguishing rule-governed from schedule-controlled behavior

Hayes, Steven C., Brownstein, Aaron J., Haas, Joseph R., Greenway, David E.

Schedule sensitivity has usually been examined either through a multiple schedule or through changes in schedules after steady-state responding has been established. This study compared the effects...

Relational operants: processes and implications: a response to Palmer's review of Relational Frame Theory.

Hayes, Steven C, Barnes-Holmes, Dermot

Palmer has recently criticized Relational Frame Theory (RFT) on the grounds that it has developed data in search of a principle. In this reply, we show that he has done so by attacking fundamental...

Correlation between self-reported rigidity and rule-governed insensitivity to operant contingencies

Wulfert, Edelgard, Greenway, David E., Farkas, Paula, Hayes, Steven C., Dougher, Michael J.

Adults were selected on the basis of their scores on the Scale for Personality Rigidity (Rehfisch, 1958a). Their scores served as a measure of hypothesized rule governance in the natural environment....

Self-reinforcement effects: An artifact of social standard setting?

Hayes, Steven C., Rosenfarb, Irwin, Wulfert, Edelgard, Munt, Edwin D., Korn, Zamir, Zettle, Robert D.

Two studies were conducted to identify mechanisms responsible for observed “self-reinforcement” effects. In Experiment 1, using a studying task, self-reinforcement procedures did not work when...

The technical drift of applied behavior analysis

Hayes, Steven C., Rincover, Arnold, Solnick, Jay V.

Four dimensions (applied, analytic, general, conceptual) were selected from Baer, Wolf, and Risley's (1968) seminal article on the nature of applied behavior analysis and were monitored throughout...

Reduction of residential consumption of electricity through simple monthly feedback

Hayes, Steven C., Cone, John D.

Feedback has been widely used in efforts to control the consumption of electricity. Previous efforts, however, have used forms of feedback that seem economically impractical. The present study...

Reducing residential electrical energy use: payments, information, and feedback1

Hayes, Steven C., Cone, John D.

Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce electricity use in four units of a university student housing complex. A combined multiple-baseline...

The nature of behavioral assessment: A commentary

Nelson, Rosemery O., Hayes, Steven C.

This special issue of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis provides the reader with a sample of current work in behavioral assessment. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of...

The marked item technique: a practical procedure for litter control1

Hayes, Steven C., Johnson, V. Scott, Cone, John D.

Unobtrusively marked items of litter were placed among existing trash on the grounds of a federal youth correctional facility. Inmates voluntarily collected trash and deposited it at a central...

The transfer of specific and general consequential functions through simple and conditional equivalence relations

Hayes, Steven C., Kohlenberg, Barbara S., Hayes, Linda J.

The purpose of this study was to examine the transfer of consequential (reinforcement and punishment) functions through equivalence relations. In Experiment 1, 9 subjects acquired three three-member...

Escape from freedom: Choosing not to choose in pigeons

Hayes, Steven C., Kapust, Jeffery, Leonard, Susan R., Rosenfarb, Irwin

Preference for the availability of food-reinforcement alternatives was investigated with Rachlin and Green's (1972) concurrent-chains self-control paradigm. The terminal link of one chain made...

Transfer of a conditional ordering response through conditional equivalence classes

Wulfert, Edelgard, Hayes, Steven C.

Eight adult humans were taught conditional discriminations in a matching-to-sample format that led to the formation of two four-member equivalence classes. When subjects were taught to select one...

Nonhumans have not yet shown stimulus equivalence

Hayes, Steven C.

Recently, two published articles have reported finding stimulus equivalence in nonhumans. One suggested that equivalence was due to the mediation of names. The procedure used trained all components...

Stimulus equivalence and rule following

Hayes, Linda J., Thompson, Scott, Hayes, Steven C.

The present study examined the occurrence of a novel behavior pattern with respect to a novel configuration of stimuli enabled by the participation of those stimuli in equivalence classes. In...

Rule-governed behavior and sensitivity to changing consequences of responding

Hayes, Steven C., Brownstein, Aaron J., Zettle, Robert D., Rosenfarb, Irwin, Korn, Zamir

Humans were presented with a task that required moving a light through a matrix. Button presses could produce light movements according to a multiple fixed-ratio...

Instructions, multiple schedules, and extinction: Distinguishing rule-governed from schedule-controlled behavior

Hayes, Steven C., Brownstein, Aaron J., Haas, Joseph R., Greenway, David E.

Schedule sensitivity has usually been examined either through a multiple schedule or through changes in schedules after steady-state responding has been established. This study compared the effects...

Arbitrarily Applicable Comparative Relations: Experimental Evidence for a Relational Operant

Berens, Nicholas M, Hayes, Steven C

Arbitrarily applicable derived relational responding has been argued by relational frame theorists to be a form of operant behavior. The present study examined this idea with 4 female participants,...

On the benefits of collaboration: consumer psychology, behavioral economics and relational frame theory

Rene Quiñones, Linda J. Hayes, Steven C. Hayes

Consumer behavior is a pervasive feature of the human circumstance, and its study has long been pursued by behaviorally oriented psychologists, among whom may be counted John B. Watson. Relatively...

A Preliminary Investigation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Marijuana Dependence in Adults

Twohig, Michael P, Shoenberger, Deacon, Hayes, Steven C

In this investigation, 3 adults who met criteria for marijuana dependence were treated using an abbreviated version of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The treatment was delivered in eight...

Producing and Recognizing Analogical Relations

Lipkens, Regina, Hayes, Steven C

Analogical reasoning is an important component of intelligent behavior, and a key test of any approach to human language and cognition. Only a limited amount of empirical work has been conducted from...

Why it is crucial to understand thinking and feeling: An analysis and application to drug abuse

Wilson, Kelly G., Hayes, Steven C.

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...

Moral behavior and the development of verbal regulation

Hayes, Steven C., Gifford, Elizabeth V., Hayes, Gregory J.

The present paper examines the relationship between the development of moral behavior and the development of verbal regulatory processes. Relational frame theory and the distinctions among pliance,...

Acceptance and commitment therapy: Altering the verbal support for experiential avoidance

Hayes, Steven C., Wilson, Kelly G.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a behavior-analytically-based psychotherapy approach that attempts to undermine emotional avoidance and increase the capacity for behavior change. An...

A self-capitalization model for building behavior analysis graduate programs

Hayes, Linda J., Hayes, Steven C., Ghezzi, Patrick M., Bijou, Sidney W., Williams, W. Lawrence, Follette, William C.

The development of the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Nevada through self-capitalization is described. With this model, both doctoral and master's degree programs were established at...

Theory and technology in behavior analysis 1

Hayes, Steven C.

The differences within behaviorism in general and behavior analysis in particular have been described in many ways. Some of the more common distinctions are “basic versus applied”, “clinical...

Mentalism, behavior-behavior relations, and a behavior-analytic view of the purposes of science

Hayes, Steven C., Brownstein, Aaron J.

In a behavioral view, the purposes of science are primarily prediction and control. To the extent that a scientist embraces both of these as a unified and generally applicable criterion for science,...