This paper is a reply to an accompanying set of six commentaries by Sidman; Hayes and Barnes; Schusterman, Kastak, and Reichmuth; Tonneau and Sokolowski; Lowenkron; and Moerk. Those commentaries were prompted by our article ‘‘On the Origins of Naming and Other Symbolic Behavior’’ (1996), which was, in turn, followed by 26 commentaries and a reply. In the course of the present reply, we further ...

Given the strong mimetic and dramatic qualities found in Judith authors make suggestion that perhaps, before LXX became a fixed, written text, basic fabula might well have been part of an oral tradition. The accept appropriately work, whether transmitted through reading or presentation, by means its performative qualities, has potential to achieve immediacy. Here, audience may become captivated...

19 male Es employing a Taffel-type task conducted a verbal conditioning experiment with 60 female Ss. I the Es were led to expect their Ss to show verbal conditioning, and 4 were led to expect no verbal conditioning. 4 the Es in each of these groups were led to feel that it would be desirable if their Ss showed conditioning, and J were led to feel that it would be undesirable. Those Es who (a) ...

This study utilized a modification of Strupp's film method to focus upon the verbal patterns of experienced and novice psychotherapists. Results indicated some striking differences between the 2 groups of S therapists with experts relative to novices using more nonquestions and averaging more words per given statement. These and other differences are discussed with particular reference to sever...

87 The article that follows, “Antecedents and Consequences of Word,” is reprinted with permission from the European Journal of Behavior Analysis. It is one more piece of an on-going longer work. The article especially emphasizes the role of multiple causation in verbal behavior in the converging effects of verbal governance, verbal shaping, attention to verbal stimuli, and the replication of ve...

Using  willingness  to  communicate  (WTC)  and  socio-educational  models  as  a  framework,  the present study aimed at examining WTC in English and its underlying variables in a sample of 372 Iranian  non-English  major  EFL  learners.  The  data  were  collected  through  self-reported questionnaires.  Path  analysis  framework  using  the  Amos  Program  with  maximum  likelihood estimatio...

This study shows that the recent 80% decrease in dealer inventories of corporate bonds has increased the cost of immediacy. For safe bonds which are quickly turned over again by dealers the increase is up to 15%, while for risky bonds which are kept on inventory by dealers the increase is up to 100% on average. The time series of transaction costs is estimated using the natural experiment of co...