THE GREATEST DANGERS FACING BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS TODAY (9999)
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...
Akihiko Masuda; Georgia State University, Steven C Hayes; University Of Nevada, Reno, Jason Lillis; University Of Nevada, Reno, Kara Bunting; University Of Nevada, Reno, Scott A Herbst; University Of Nevada, Reno, Lindsay B Fletcher; University Of Nevada, Reno
The present study examined the relation between changes in psychological flexibility and changes in mental health stigma in the context of a 2.5-hour long Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group...
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...
Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis (2006)
Steven C. Hayes, Julieann Pankey
Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis
Steven C. Hayes, Nicholas M. Berens
Why relational frame theory alters the relationship between basic and applied behavioral psychology
Dermot Barnes Holmes, Yvonne Barnes Holmes, Louise McHugh, Steven C. Hayes
Relational frame theory: some implications for understanding and treating human psychopathology
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...
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...
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)
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...
Conceptual Foundations of Behavioral Assessment (1986)
Nelson, Rosemery O., Hayes, Steven C.
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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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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,...
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...
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
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,...