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morgan_blackledge 's review for:
The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
by Steven C. Hayes, Anthony Biglan, David Sloan Wilson
There is a small but growing group of psyquants and clinicians who are propagating a new and improved version of B. F. Skinners movement towards a mature science of effective behavioral analysis, prediction and yes, control.
Verbal Behavior was Skinners book positing a behavioral theory of language acquisition that Noam Chomsky famously trashed, essentially signaling the end of Skinners iron grip on American experimental psychology and the beginning of the cognitive revolution.
For a decade or so, Verbal Behavior was so maligned by the scientific community that it was pretty much radioactive.
But it appears that a baby or two may have gotten flushed with the radioactive effluvium.
One of the most balls out moves the Neo-Skinariean aka Functional Contextualists made was to revisit the nuclear wasteland that was Skinners work on Verbal Behavior and see what they could salvage.
The outcome of the Post-Skinariean reexamination of language from the behaviorist perspective was what eventually became Relational Frame Theory (RFT).
You literally have to be an autistic savant in order to understand RFT. But suffice it to say, it's powerful stuff and it eventually became the backend engine of Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT).
ACT is one of the mindfulness based psychotherapy modalities (known as the third wave of behaviorism) that, along with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is revolutionizing psychotherapy.
This book, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World by Anthony Biglan appears to be a post-Skinerian redux of Skinners vision of behaviorist principals implemented on a macro scale as initially posited in Skinners utopian Walden II.
Although it appears to be marketed to a general audience, I honestly can't see the book being of high value to a popular audience.
This one is pretty much for behaviorist dorks, therapists, social workers and policy makers only.
I'm pretty sure almost everyone else would find it pretty boring.
Consider yourself warned.
Verbal Behavior was Skinners book positing a behavioral theory of language acquisition that Noam Chomsky famously trashed, essentially signaling the end of Skinners iron grip on American experimental psychology and the beginning of the cognitive revolution.
For a decade or so, Verbal Behavior was so maligned by the scientific community that it was pretty much radioactive.
But it appears that a baby or two may have gotten flushed with the radioactive effluvium.
One of the most balls out moves the Neo-Skinariean aka Functional Contextualists made was to revisit the nuclear wasteland that was Skinners work on Verbal Behavior and see what they could salvage.
The outcome of the Post-Skinariean reexamination of language from the behaviorist perspective was what eventually became Relational Frame Theory (RFT).
You literally have to be an autistic savant in order to understand RFT. But suffice it to say, it's powerful stuff and it eventually became the backend engine of Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT).
ACT is one of the mindfulness based psychotherapy modalities (known as the third wave of behaviorism) that, along with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is revolutionizing psychotherapy.
This book, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World by Anthony Biglan appears to be a post-Skinerian redux of Skinners vision of behaviorist principals implemented on a macro scale as initially posited in Skinners utopian Walden II.
Although it appears to be marketed to a general audience, I honestly can't see the book being of high value to a popular audience.
This one is pretty much for behaviorist dorks, therapists, social workers and policy makers only.
I'm pretty sure almost everyone else would find it pretty boring.
Consider yourself warned.