It’s a theory of language and cognition called Relational Frame Theory (or RFT) and it emerged out of behavioral psychology—a subfield most cognitive scientists would seldom, if ever ...

According to the unified theory, we can frame this “law of influence” by the way we track our level of social influence and relational value and examine how that reverberates in the social sphere.

My own research, in the field of relational frame theory, has shown that understanding relations between words, such as “more than”, “less than” or “opposite” is crucial for our ...

Using a concept called relational frame theory, many researchers believe they have identified the basic building block skills of verbal and mathematical abilities. These skills are called ...