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Derived Relational Responding and Transformations of Function in Children: A Review of Applied Behavior-Analytic Journals
Theoretical extensions of Skinner’s verbal behavior that emphasize derived relational responding (stimulus equivalence, relational frame theory, and...
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Model Dependent Realism and the Rule-Governed Behavior of Behavior Analysts: Applications to Derived Relational Responding
A fundamental assumption within radical behaviorism is that all human behavior, including the rule-governed behavior of scientists, can be understood...
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Skinner and Relational Frame Theory: Integrating Units of Analysis on a Continuum of Complexity
Skinner and relational frame theory (RFT) present different behavioral perspectives on language. Although some bridges can be found between Skinner's...
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Using Relational Training to Improve Performance During Acceptance and Commitment Training Sessions
The current study investigated the effect of relational training on improving engagement during acceptance and commitment training (ACT) sessions...
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Exploring the Evocation of Verbal Perspective Taking Using a Linguistic Relational Triangulation Questionnaire (RTQ-MST9)
The present article exhibits the use of a linguistic multiple-choice questionnaire format for evoking relational triangulation performances while...
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Using Relational Frame Theory to Examine Racial Prejudice: A Tool for Educators and an Appeal for Future Research
Canadian colleges and universities have begun to acknowledge systemic and institutionalized racism by develo** equity statements and policies in...
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The Relational Frames of Containment and Hierarchy
The capacity to categorise and relate stimuli to one another along the dimension of ownership, belonging or containment is one of the more complex...
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Grappling with the Complexity of Behavioral Processes in Human Psychological Suffering: Some Potential Insights from Relational Frame Theory
Relational frame theory (RFT) has historically been considered the basic explanatory science behind acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). However,...
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Assessing the Development of Relational Framing in Young Children
Relational frame theory (RFT) sees operant acquisition of various patterns of relational framing (frames) as key to linguistic and cognitive...
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The Respondent-Type Matching-to-Sample Procedure: A Comparison of One-to-Many and Linear Procedure for Establishing Equivalence Responding
Stimulus equivalence research is dominated by operant conditioning procedures that require the active responding of a participant to establish...
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Comparing the Effect of Echoic and Listener Responding in the Development of Complex Intraverbals
This study aimed to compare the effects of echoic and listener responding in the emergence of complex intraverbal behavior in four children with...
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Relational Behavior and ACT: A Dynamic Relationship
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and its counterpart, relational frame theory (RFT), represent emerging areas of research and professional...
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A Commentary on the Dynamics of Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding Involving Positive Valenced Stimuli and its Implications for the IRAP Research
The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) has been successfully used to analyze the strength of symbolic relations. Taking advantage of...
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Research on Human Language and Cognition in Brazil Based on Stimulus Equivalence and Relational Frame Theory
Behavior analysis in Brazil started with Keller’s visit in 1961 and has since grown steadily. Brazilian research on the last decades has been...
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Countercontrol: A Relational Frame Theory (RFT) Account and Revival of a 70-Year-Old Skinnerian Term
Countercontrol is a Skinnerian operant concept that posits that an individual’s attempts to exert control over another person’s behavior may evoke a...
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Relational Frame Theory and Language
The crux of Chomsky’s critique of Skinner’s “Verbal Behaviour” was that behaviourism in its current form failed to account for the generative and...
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The Relational Frame of Temporality
Temporal relations have been theorised to form the cornerstone of complex repertoires such as rule-governed behaviour and executive functioning, but...
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Deictic Relational Frames and Relational Triangulation: An Open Letter in Response to Kavanagh, Barnes-Holmes, and Barnes-Holmes (2020)
Kavanagh et al. (
2020 ) aimed to provide a comprehensive review of the perspective taking literature, including how the topic has been addressed by...
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Relational Frames of Opposition and Distinction
Distinction and opposition are relational frames which explore more complex behavioural repertoires than that of coordination alone. These relational...
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What Is Relational Frame Theory?
Early criticisms of behaviourism included the disciplines’ inability to account for the generativity of language – a critique initially levelled by...