Patients’ experiences of an acceptance and commitment therapy-based approach for psychosocial difficulties relating to an appearance-affecting condition (2020)
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Some individuals with appearance-affecting conditions experience psychosocial challenges such as social anxiety and avoidance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) may offer a suitable approach for these challenges. This qualitative study investig... Read More about Patients’ experiences of an acceptance and commitment therapy-based approach for psychosocial difficulties relating to an appearance-affecting condition.

Cognitive defusion versus experiential avoidance in the reduction of smoking behaviour: an experimental and preliminary investigation (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Background: Brief procedures that reduce smoking behaviour may be useful in reaching the many people that do not seek help for smoking addiction. Objectives: The current study ai... Read More about Cognitive defusion versus experiential avoidance in the reduction of smoking behaviour: an experimental and preliminary investigation.

A weight-related growth mindset increases negative attitudes toward obese people (2018)
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© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. In implicit personality theory, people with entity views or a fixed mindset perceive characteristics (e.g., intelligence) as uncontrollable, whereas people with incremental views or a growth mindset perceive characteris... Read More about A weight-related growth mindset increases negative attitudes toward obese people.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Applications for Educational Psychologists within Schools (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Association of Educational Psychologists. Guidance for schools regarding the promotion and enhancement of psychological wellbeing represents an invitation to intervene to promote effective, evidence-informed, whole-school approaches fo... Read More about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Applications for Educational Psychologists within Schools.

Experiential Avoidance as a Common Psychological Process in European Cultures (2018)
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© 2016 Hogrefe Publishing. Experiential avoidance, the tendency to rigidly escape or avoid private psychological experiences, represents one of the most prominent transdiagnostic psychological processes with a known role in a wide variety of psycholo... Read More about Experiential Avoidance as a Common Psychological Process in European Cultures.

Derived insensitivity: Rule-based insensitivity to contingencies propagates through equivalence (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Rule-governed behaviours enable rapid acquisition of appropriate and often complex behaviour in novel contexts; however, this capacity can also make individuals insensitive to environmental contingencies. This problem may be exac... Read More about Derived insensitivity: Rule-based insensitivity to contingencies propagates through equivalence.

Spoken rules (2017)
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Evaluating a transdiagnostic acceptance and commitment therapy psychoeducation intervention (2017)
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© British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2017. Psychoeducation courses have gained some empirical support as effective early intervention strategies. Many of these courses reflect traditional cognitive behaviour therapy (CB... Read More about Evaluating a transdiagnostic acceptance and commitment therapy psychoeducation intervention.

Mindfulness reduces the correspondence bias (2016)
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© 2016 The Experimental Psychology Society. The correspondence bias (CB) refers to the idea that people sometimes give undue weight to dispositional rather than situational factors when explaining behaviours and attitudes. Three experiments examined... Read More about Mindfulness reduces the correspondence bias.

Theoretical underpinnings: Relational frame theory and contextual behavioral science in a higher education context (2016)
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The Research Journey of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) (2015)
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n 1986 the first research study investigating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) was published. It aimed to determine if an early conceptualization of the ACT model could be used to treat depression. Since this seminal study, further investigati... Read More about The Research Journey of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Transformation of Thought Suppression Functions Via Same and Opposite Relations (2015)
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© 2014, Association for Behavior Analysis International. The aim of this study was to investigate transformation of thought suppression functions via ‘same’ and ‘opposite’ relations. In Experiment 1 participants were given training and testing with t... Read More about Transformation of Thought Suppression Functions Via Same and Opposite Relations.

Perspective taking reduces the fundamental attribution error (2015)
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© 2015 Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. The fundamental attribution error (FAE) refers to the predisposition for people to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional characteristics, rather than situational causes external to the... Read More about Perspective taking reduces the fundamental attribution error.

Using Brief Cognitive Restructuring and Cognitive Defusion Techniques to Cope With Negative Thoughts (2015)
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© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Negative thoughts, experienced by 80% to 99% of the non-clinical population, have been linked to the development of psychopathology. The current study aimed to compare a cognitive restructuring and cognitive defusion tec... Read More about Using Brief Cognitive Restructuring and Cognitive Defusion Techniques to Cope With Negative Thoughts.

The effects of repeated thought suppression attempts on thought occurrence (2013)
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In the thought suppression literature the completion of one suppression and one expression phase is called an indulgence cycle. The current study aimed to determine the effects on thought frequency of entering multiple indulgence cycles. Participants... Read More about The effects of repeated thought suppression attempts on thought occurrence.

Accepting your cravings (2013)
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Cognitive defusion versus thought distraction in the mitigation of learned helplessness (2013)
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Recent research suggests that attempting to avoid unwanted psychological
events is maladaptive. Contrastingly, cognitive defusion, which is an
acceptance-based method for managing unwanted thoughts, may provide a
plausible alternative. The current... Read More about Cognitive defusion versus thought distraction in the mitigation of learned helplessness.

Modelling the direct and indirect effects of thought suppression on personal choice (2012)
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The current study sought to provide an empirical model of the direct and indirect effects of thought suppression on personal choice. In Experiment 1 (direct effect) participants were required to make a preference on a dichotomous choice task. After m... Read More about Modelling the direct and indirect effects of thought suppression on personal choice.

Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise (2012)
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Individuals who experience stereotype threat - the pressure resulting from social comparisons that are perceived as unfavourable - show performance decrements across a wide range of tasks. One account of this effect is that the cognitive pressure tri... Read More about Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise.

A contemporary functional analytic account of perspective taking (2012)
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