Recently added articles from The Psychological Record:
In memoriam.(Sidney W. Bijou)(In memoriam)
Sep 22, 2009 ... Sidney W. Bijou died on June 11, 2009, in Santa Barbara, California. Although an extended article commemorating his contributions will appear in a subsequent issue of the journal, we did not want to publish the fall issue without acknowledging his passing. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Treating inpatients with comorbid depression and alcohol use disorders: a comparison of acceptance and commitment therapy versus treatment as usual.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Psychiatric comorbidity, or the concurrent clinical presentation of two or more diagnosable behavioral disorders, is the rule rather than the exception (First, 2005). Epidemiological research has found that 45% of those who warrant at least one diagnosis also meet the criteria for one or ...
Differential response to a dysphoric mood induction procedure as a function of level of experiential avoidance.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... In recent years, experiential avoidance has been increasingly identified and implicated as a psychological diathesis that may underlie clinical and subsyndromal forms of human suffering (Hayes, Wilson, Gifford, Follette, & Strosahl, 1996). Experiential avoidance refers to the tendency to ...
Depressive realism: wiser or quieter?(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Under certain conditions, people tend to overestimate the relationship between their actions and reinforcers, even if these events occur noncontingently. Langer (1975) called this phenomenon the illusion of control, because it consists of people believing that they have personal control ...
Assessment of the relatedness of equivalent stimuli through a semantic differential.(Report)
Sep 22, 2009; ... A conditional discrimination establishes a relation between a set of two or more samples (e.g., Al, A2, ... An) and a set of two or more comparison stimuli (e.g., B1, B2, ... Bn), so that in the presence of sample An, selections of comparison stimulus Bn are reinforced, whereas selections ...