A Commentary on the Dynamics of Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding Involving Positive Valenced Stimuli and its Implications for the IRAP Research

Renato Bortoloti; Rodrigo Vianna de Almeida; João Henrique de Almeida; Júlio de Rose

doi:10.1007/s40732-020-00413-2

A Commentary on the Dynamics of Arbitrarily Applicable Relational Responding Involving Positive Valenced Stimuli and its Implications for the IRAP Research

Renato Bortoloti, Rodrigo Vianna de Almeida, João Henrique de Almeida, Júlio de Rose

School of Psychology

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Abstract

The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) has been successfully used to analyze the strength of symbolic relations. Taking advantage of this, Bortoloti, de Almeida, de Almeida, and de Rose (Frontiers in Psychology, 10(954), 2019) reported a higher relational strength in equivalence classes containing happy faces than in those containing negative faces. This so-called happiness superiority effect (HSE) was inferred from an IRAP that included stimuli presented during the equivalence training. Such HSE apparently had a stronger influence on IRAP performance than the equivalence training itself. In this article, we comment on these data and present a new analysis that supports a hypothesis raised by Bortoloti et al. (Frontiers in Psychology, 10(954), 2019) to account for a surprising IRAP performance in their experiment. Based on this, we discuss new avenues for the investigation of properties of relational responding using the IRAP.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	481-486
Number of pages	6
Journal	The Psychological Record
Volume	71
Issue number	3
Early online date	29 Jun 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-020-00413-2
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 30 Sept 2021

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This work was part of the research program of Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia sobre Comportamento, Cognição e Ensino (National Institute of Science and Technology on Behavior, Cognition, and Teaching), under the leadership of Deisy G. de Souza and supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Grant # 2014/50909-8) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, Grant # 465686/2014-1). Acknowledgments Availability of Data and Materials

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Keywords

Facial expressions
IRAP
equivalence relations
happiness superiority effect

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