Relational Coherence, Speaker Preference, and Rule-Following: A Replication and Extension of Bianchi et al. (2021).

The present study evaluated the influence of relational coherence upon speaker preference and subsequent rule-following behavior. Across two experiments, participants first learned a particular set of conditional relations via a stimulus-pairing procedure (e.g., A1B1, A2B2). Then, the same relations...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Psychological Record Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 41 - 56
Main Authors: Bianchi, Paulo Henrique, Perez, William Ferreira, Harte, Colin, Barnes-Holmes, Dermot, Silva, Antonio Teixeira e
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Mar2025
Subjects:
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=183455088&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ssf
    uiTerm: 183455088
    longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00332933
        PSD
      jtl: Psychological Record
      issn: 00332933
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Mar2025
      vid: 75
      iid: 1
      pid: 237
      pub: Springer Nature
    artinfo:
      ui:
        183455088
        10.1007/s40732-024-00628-7
      ppf: 41
      ppct: 15
      formats:
        fmt:
          – @attributes:
              type: T
          – @attributes:
              type: P
              size: 898KB
      tig:
        atl: Relational Coherence, Speaker Preference, and Rule-Following: A Replication and Extension of Bianchi et al. (2021).
      aug:
        au:
          Bianchi, Paulo Henrique
          Perez, William Ferreira
          Harte, Colin
          Barnes-Holmes, Dermot
          Silva, Antonio Teixeira e
        affil:
          https://ror.org/01senny43 Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares IPEN-CNEN, São Paulo, Brazil
          Paradigma—Centro de Ciências do Comportamento, São Paulo, Brazil
          Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Sobre Comportamento, Cognição e Ensino (INCT-ECCE), São Paulo, Brazil
          https://ror.org/00qdc6m37 Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
          https://ror.org/01yp9g959 School of Psychology, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK
      su:
        Adults
        Stimulus & response (Psychology)
        T-shirts
        Scheduling
      sug:
        subj:
          Adults
          Other Apparel Knitting Mills
          Men's and Boys' Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing
          Women's and girls' cut and sew clothing manufacturing
          Other Clothing Stores
          All other clothing stores
          Stimulus & response (Psychology)
          T-shirts
          Scheduling
      keyword:
        Coherence
        HDML
        Preference test
        Relational frame theory
        Rule-following
        Coherence
        HDML
        Preference test
        Relational frame theory
        Rule-following
      ab: The present study evaluated the influence of relational coherence upon speaker preference and subsequent rule-following behavior. Across two experiments, participants first learned a particular set of conditional relations via a stimulus-pairing procedure (e.g., A1B1, A2B2). Then, the same relations were presented in an MTS task to ensure that participants could correctly match these stimuli. Next, the participants were exposed to two animated characters or speakers that differed by the color of their t-shirt (green or purple). One of the speakers "stated" relations that cohered (e.g., A1B1, A2B2) with the participant's previous relational training and the other stated relations that were incoherent (e.g., A1B2, A2B1). The stimulus relations were presented inside a speech balloon, as if each speaker spoke them. Rule-following was assessed during a subsequent preference test in which participants were exposed to a simultaneous discrimination task with novel stimuli. On each trial, participants first chose which of the two speakers to provide an instruction to tell them how to respond on that trial. Both speakers presented rules that were consistent with the programed contingency. In Experiment 1, feedback during the rule-following task was delivered in CRF; In Experiment 2, the schedule was FR10. In both experiments and IRAP was implemented to assess the credibility of each speaker. Results showed that a history of relational coherence with each speaker had a reliable impact upon the preference test, rule-following behaviors and the IRAP performance, irrespective of the reinforcement schedule in place (CRF in Experiment 1 and FR10 in Experiment 2).
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: N
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N