This chapter introduces the origins of, as well as arguments and evidence for, relational
frame theory (RFT). It presents the study of arbitrarily applicable relational responding …

Written by leading experts in language and cognition, this groundbreaking behavior analysis
textbook brings the study of verbal behavior into the 21st century with cutting-edge research …

Several studies used the stimulus equivalence paradigm to investigate attitudes toward
socially relevant stimuli. In one of these studies, de Carvalho and de Rose (The …

Gender-stereotyped beliefs develop early in childhood and are thought to increase with age
based on prior research that was primarily carried out in Western cultures. Little research …

Play is a gendered activity among young children, especially boys. Boys often tend to be
more actively engaged in the (re) production of gendered play. However, most research …

Behavior analysts are becoming increasingly aware of and involved in the study of issues
related to sex, gender, and racial prejudice and discrimination. In the current article, we …

The social construction of gender-as-binary plays an important role within many
contemporary theories of gender inequality. However, to date, the field of psychology has …

The stimulus equivalence paradigm presented operational criteria to identify symbolic
functions in observable behaviors. When humans match dissimilar stimuli (eg, words to …

The current study investigated the dynamics of arbitrarily applicable relational responding
involving emotional pictographs (emojis) used in electronic messages by means of the …

The differential arbitrarily applicable relational responding effects (DAARRE) model explains
two effects commonly observed with the implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP): the …