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| Social Categorization and Verbal Relations I |
| Monday, May 31, 2004 |
| 10:30 AM–11:50 AM |
| Republic A |
| Area: VBC/EAB; Domain: Applied Research |
| Chair: Chad E. Drake (University of Mississippi) |
| Discussant: Barbara S. Kohlenberg (University of Nevada School of Medicine) |
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| Emotional Avoidance and Enacted Stigma, Felt Stigma, Prejudice, Discrimination, and Intolerance |
| JASON BRIAN LUOMA (University of Nevada, Reno), Barbara S. Kohlenberg (University of Nevada School of Medicine), Steven C. Hayes (University of Nevada, Reno), Richard Bissett (University of Nevada, Reno), Alyssa Rye (University of Nevada, Reno), Kara Bunting (University of Nevada, Reno) |
| Abstract: Stigma, prejudice, discrimination and intolerance are terms that describe behaviors that have devastating personal and social consequences. These behaviors can range from the highly personal, such as avoidance of one’s own medical or mental health symptoms or treatment regimen, to the highly political; such actions that lead to the dehumanization and even extermination of people based on racial, ethnic, religious, political, and sexual preference grounds. We will present an analysis of such terms in light of the behavioral principles that may account for them, and will offer conceptual and data-based approaches to attenuate these destructive forces. |
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| Build Them Up, Then Tear Them Down: An RFT Analysis of Social Categorizing |
| CHAD E. DRAKE (University of Mississippi), Kelly G. Wilson (University of Mississippi) |
| Abstract: Few people, if anyone, would dispute the notion that the tendency for human beings to form social categories and classes has led to an extraordinary amount of conflict and destruction in human history. Given the continuing presence of such conflict in an ever-growing population of human beings, any goal related to the prediction and influence of the behaviors associated with one’s social identity seems obvious. Relational Frame Theory (RFT) has emerged in the last fifteen years as a promising framework for analyzing human behavior, and verbal behavior in particular (Hayes, 1991; Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, & Roche, 2001). Derived relational responding may contribute substantially to behavior in terms of an individual’s group identity (Watt, Keenan, Barnes, & Cairns, 1991; Moxon, Keenan, & Hine, 1993; Leslie, Tierney, Robinson, Keenan, & Watt, 1993; McGlinchey & Keenan, 1997). The primary inquiry of this project will concern the conditions that prevent people from responding to more inclusive, heterogeneous social categories. In other words, this study seeks to explore influences on the flexibility (or inflexibility) of one’s distinctions about US and THEM. |
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| Social Categorization and Gender |
| CATHERINE H. ADAMS (University of Mississippi), Kelly G. Wilson (University of Mississippi) |
| Abstract: This study will be a replication of Moxon et al. (1993), which investigated relations between self-concept and gender. Participants will learn a relation between a female-related word and a nonsensical word, and a relation between a nonsensical word and a male-related word. Afterward, the ability to derive relations between male and female-related words will be examined. |
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