Michael E Levin
Biographic Data
| ID | 313544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael E Levin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael E |
| FAMILY NAME | Levin |
| SIGNATURE | LEVIN M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utah State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5562-2366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 98 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 97 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Time series machine learning for idionomic process-based treatment planning: A tutorial on tsBoruta
Heterogeneity in the links of psychological (in)flexibility subprocesses and well-being: Idionomic insights from an experience sampling study
Psychological flexibility reliably predicts well-being, but the strength, nature and sequence of relationships between components of these constructs are likely to considerably vary between individuals. This study used emerging idionomic methods to examine within-person links between psychological flexibility/inflexibility sub-processes and hedonic well-being using ecological momentary assessment data ( n = 167; 76% female college students; M age…
One Size Does Not Make All Happy: Idionomic Links Between Striving for Positive States and Happiness in Experience Sampling
Striving for happiness can sometimes increase happiness but can also backfire and reduce it. To explore this paradox, we used idionomic methods—balancing individual-level analysis with group-level generalization—to examine how striving for happiness influences momentary happiness. Our data included ecological momentary assessment (EMA) surveys ( n = 2251) from 167 participants (75.6% female; M age = 23.96, SD = 8.7). Each individual’s data were f…
Family Caregivers’ Progress Toward Values Moderates the Associations between Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia, Caregiver Burden, and Depressive Symptoms
Increasingly, dementia caregiver interventions are informed by acceptance-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. These interventions promote psychological skills like psychological flexibility and value-based living. Less is known how these constructs interact within well-established caregiver stress processes. We examined a moderated mediation model (N = 161 dementia caregivers; PROCESS Procedure; SPSS Release 4.1), with BPS…
Naturalistic observation of adherence and engagement with a university-wide deployment of digital acceptance and commitment therapy
Evaluating the naturalistic implementation of a peer-coaching service to augment online acceptance and commitment therapy for college mental health
Mechanisms of change in peer coaching for digital ACT: A serial mediation model on program adherence and psychological flexibility's role in reducing distress
A longitudinal pilot evaluation of valued living: An acceptance and commitment therapy-based digital mental health intervention for autistic adults
An Idionomic Network Analysis of Trichotillomania Treatment Processes: Gathering Group-Level and Individual-Level Insights to Inform a Personalized Therapeutic Framework
An individual participant data meta-analysis investigating the mediating role of eating behavior traits in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based weight management interventions
Physiological, behavioral, and self-report outcomes of acceptance- and regulation-based exposure for intrusive thoughts
Testing the applicability of idionomic statistics in longitudinal studies: The example of ‘doing what matters’
This study evaluated idionomic methods for identifying within-person links between therapeutically relevant processes and outcomes, using an ecological momentary assessment dataset of valued action and hedonic well-being (participants (n) = 425; 71.76% female; age = M(SD) = 22.20 (6.85); sampling design: 3–4 prompts per day; total measurements (n) = 6456). We compared the idionomic approach, integrating idiographic and nomothetic insights, with t…
Limited effects of phone coaching in an RCT of online self-guided acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain
Over 80% of patients with Chiari Malformation (CM) struggle with moderate to severe disability due to neck pain and headaches. Self-guided online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is efficacious in addressing chronic pain. However, it is unclear whether adjunctive weekly phone coaching (a cost- and labor-intensive component of the intervention) contributes to, or provides additional benefit to, ACT's success. This study randomized 112 parti…
The Oxford Handbook of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy and a growing research area. This handbook begins with the theoretical and conceptual work that informs ACT, including theory and basic science. Several articles then cover the main treatment components and process of change for ACT, including psychological flexibility and the six ACT processes of change. Other, multiple articles cover the use of ACT with major disorders, proble…
Processes of change in online acceptance and commitment therapy for hoarding
Disentangling trait and state psychological inflexibility: A longitudinal multilevel approach
Measuring psychological flexibility in autistic adults: Examining the validity and reliability of the AAQ-II, Beaq, and VQ
The current status of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in Iran: A systematic narrative review
Leveraging values to promote adherence to endocrine therapy among breast cancer survivors: A mixed-methods investigation
Experiential avoidance in depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive related, and posttraumatic stress disorders: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis
In-person and online-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for hoarding disorder: A multiple baseline study
Preliminary findings on processes of change and moderators for cognitive defusion and restructuring delivered through mobile apps
Does the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire measure more than frequency of negative thoughts
Integrating storytelling into the theory and practice of contextual behavioral science
Cultural Truth and Ethnographic Consequences
Fieldwork in an increasingly literate world presents new dilemmas for anthropologists. The information recorded in ethnographies may have consequences in the cultures and for the people with whom the ethnographer has worked. The political system of the peoples′ nation may be able to use ethnographic information and the politics of the local community can be affected by the permanent record an ethnography creates. This paper uses an old baseball s…
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Unified Model of Behavior Change
The present article summarizes the assumptions, model, techniques, evidence, and diversity/social justice commitments of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT focused on six processes (acceptance, defusion, self, now, values, and action) that bear on a single overall target (psychological flexibility). The ACT model of behavior change has been shown to have positive outcomes across a broad range of applied problems and areas of growth. Pro…
Exploring the relationship between body mass index and health-related quality of life: A pilot study of the impact of weight self-stigma and experiential avoidance
Health-related quality of life (HRQL) has been shown to deteriorate as body mass index (BMI) increases. Recent research suggests weight stigma and experiential avoidance may partially account for the relationship between BMI and HRQL. Eighty-seven adults recruited from a weight-loss clinic completed an intake assessment, which consisted of physical measurement taking and completion of self-report measures. Experiential avoidance and weight self-s…
On Explanation in Archaeology: A Rebuttal to Fritz and Plog
This paper argues that the recommendation by Fritz and Plog-that archaeologists adopt the Deductive-Nomological model of scientific explanation-mistakes a conceptual explication for a substantive recommendation. This misinterpretation results in the recommendation of tautologies. The detailed examination of this misinterpretation leads to an investigation of logical inference, the justification of the D-N model, the theory-laden nature of archaeo…
On Theory-Change and Meaning-Change
I argue against the currently popular view that a radical change in theory affects the meaning of theoretical terms, and hence render pre- and post-shift theories incomparable. I first show how to pose the meaning-change issue without appeal to meanings reified. I contend that arguments against theory-neutral observation languages are faulty, but that even if they were sound, there are semantic devices that allow a theory to refer to the factual …
The Extensionality of Causation and Causal-Explanatory Contexts
I argue that ' c ' occurs extensionally in ' c caused e ' and ' D ' occurs extensionally in ' c caused e because c is D'. I claim that this has been insufficiently appreciated because the two contexts are often run together and because it has not been clear that the description D of c is among the referents of an explanatory argument. I argue as well that Hume's analysis of causation is consistent with taking causation to be a relation between si…
Self-stigma and weight loss: The impact of fear of being stigmatized
This study sought to examine whether two facets of weight self-stigma (fear of enacted stigma and self-devaluation) were associated with weight change and treatment engagement for 188 individuals participating in a 3-month online weight loss program. Fear of enacted stigma predicted less weight loss 3 months later after controlling for demographics, eating problems, and psychological symptoms. Self-devaluation did not predict weight loss. Neither…
On the Ascription of Functions to Objects, with Special Reference to Inference in Archaeology
What Makes A Classic in Political Theory
Journal Article What Makes A Classic in Political Theory? Get access Michael Levin Michael Levin MICHAEL LEVIN is a lecturer in the department of political science at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. His articles have appeared in The Journal of the History of Ideas, Political Studies, and The Dictionaryof the History of Ideas. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Q…
The Bell Curve Case for Heredity
The hereditarian theory of race differences in IQ was briefly revived with the appearance of The Bell Curve but then quickly dismissed. The authors attempt a defense of it here, with an eye to conceptual and logical issues of special interest to philosophers, such as alleged infirmities in the heritability concept. At the same time, some relevant post- Bell Curve empirical data are introduced
Marxism and Romanticism: Marx's Debt to German Conservatism
An individual participant data meta-analysis investigating the mediating role of eating behavior traits in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based weight management interventions
Is the Generality Problem too General
Reliabilism holds that knowledge is true belief reliably caused. Reliabilists should say something about individuating processes; critics deny that the right degree of generality can be specified without arbitrariness. It is argued that this criticism applies as well to processes mentioned in scientific explanations. The gratuitous puzzles created thereby show that the “generality problem” is illusory
Putnam on Reference and Constructive Sets
Putnam argues that, by ‘reinterpretation’, the Axiom of Constructibility can be saved from empirical refutation. This paper contends that this argument fails, a failure which leaves Putnam's sweeping appeal to the Lowenheim–Skolem Theorem inadequately motivated.
Inherited Power and Popular Representation: A Tension in Hegel's Political Theory
Why we Believe in Other Minds
One does not hear very much about the problem of other minds these days. It is not that the problem has been solved, but, I think, that its intractability has sapped its interest. It is time for a new approach, one not beholden to the traditional analogical argument or neo-traditional criteriological arguments. That is what I undertake here. Let me prepare the way for my positive thesis by explaining why all traditional thinking that sets the pro…
Equality of Opportunity
Journal Article Equality of Opportunity Get access Michael E. Levin Michael E. Levin City College, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 123, April 1981, Pages 110–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218718 Published: 01 April 1981
Deutschmarx: Marx, Engels, and the German Question
Marx and Engels's analysis of German society can be fruitfully viewed as a materialist adaptation of earlier Romantic views on German special development. The failure to develop a strong bourgeois class meant that Germany's pattern of development differed markedly from the general theory outlined in Part One of the Manifesto. If the bourgeoisie could not further the development of society, that task necessarily fell to the German proletariat, the…
The independence results of set theory: An informal exposition
Uses of the Social Contract Method: Vaughan's Interpretation of Rousseau
Uses of the Social Contract Method: Vaughan's Interpretation of Rousseau
Rousseau on Independence
What Makes A Classic in Political Theory
Journal Article What Makes A Classic in Political Theory? Get access Michael Levin Michael Levin MICHAEL LEVIN is a lecturer in the department of political science at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom. His articles have appeared in The Journal of the History of Ideas, Political Studies, and The Dictionaryof the History of Ideas. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Q…
On Explanation in Archaeology: A Rebuttal to Fritz and Plog
This paper argues that the recommendation by Fritz and Plog-that archaeologists adopt the Deductive-Nomological model of scientific explanation-mistakes a conceptual explication for a substantive recommendation. This misinterpretation results in the recommendation of tautologies. The detailed examination of this misinterpretation leads to an investigation of logical inference, the justification of the D-N model, the theory-laden nature of archaeo…
Marxism and Romanticism: Marx's Debt to German Conservatism
On the Ascription of Functions to Objects, with Special Reference to Inference in Archaeology
The Extensionality of Causation and Causal-Explanatory Contexts
I argue that ' c ' occurs extensionally in ' c caused e ' and ' D ' occurs extensionally in ' c caused e because c is D'. I claim that this has been insufficiently appreciated because the two contexts are often run together and because it has not been clear that the description D of c is among the referents of an explanatory argument. I argue as well that Hume's analysis of causation is consistent with taking causation to be a relation between si…
The independence results of set theory: An informal exposition
Lavoisier's Slow Burn
Limitations of space dictate that we confine ourselves to Miss Stern's most salient comments. First, a preliminary point. Miss Stern says “Levin offers no argument” for why “ e happened because of c ” implicitly contains an explanatory description, while “ c caused e ” does not. But surely the remark ([1], 273) that we often know that c caused e without knowing why c caused e is just such an argument. Our linguistic intuition suggests that we use…
On Theory-Change and Meaning-Change
I argue against the currently popular view that a radical change in theory affects the meaning of theoretical terms, and hence render pre- and post-shift theories incomparable. I first show how to pose the meaning-change issue without appeal to meanings reified. I contend that arguments against theory-neutral observation languages are faulty, but that even if they were sound, there are semantic devices that allow a theory to refer to the factual …
Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem. By M. E. Levin (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1979. Pp. 278. Price £12.00) Alan R. White Alan R. White Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 121, October 1980, Pages 369–371, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219535 Published: 01 October 1980
Is racial discrimination special
Equality of Opportunity
Journal Article Equality of Opportunity Get access Michael E. Levin Michael E. Levin City College, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 123, April 1981, Pages 110–125, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218718 Published: 01 April 1981
Deutschmarx: Marx, Engels, and the German Question
Marx and Engels's analysis of German society can be fruitfully viewed as a materialist adaptation of earlier Romantic views on German special development. The failure to develop a strong bourgeois class meant that Germany's pattern of development differed markedly from the general theory outlined in Part One of the Manifesto. If the bourgeoisie could not further the development of society, that task necessarily fell to the German proletariat, the…
Phenomenal Properties
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Charles Husband (ed.), ‘RACE’ IN BRITAIN: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, London, Hutchinson, 1982, 329 pp., £6.95. Sally Tomlinson, EDUCATIONAL SUBNORMALITY: A STUDY IN DECISION MAKING, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, 348 pp., £12.50. N. O'Neill, FASCISM AND THE WORKING CLASS, Southall, Shakti Publications, 1982, 164 pp., £3.00. Harald Tambs‐Ly che, LONDON PATIDARS: A CASE STUDY IN URBAN ETHNICITY, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, xi + 151 pp.…
Paradox on 72nd street: A hippie socialist film
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R.L. McNeely and John L. Colen (eds.) AGING IN MINORITY GROUPS. Sage Publications Beverly Hills, California/London, 1983, pp. 300. n.p. David A. Coleman (ed.), DEMOGRAPHY OF IMMIGRANTS AND MINORITY GROUPS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. London, Academic Press, 1982, 270 pp., £16.00; $29.50. Donald G. Baker, RACE, ETHNICITY AND POWER. A COMPARATIVE STUDY, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983, 243 pp., £14.95. Steven M. Cohen, AMERICAN MODERNITY AND JEWISH …
Why we Believe in Other Minds
One does not hear very much about the problem of other minds these days. It is not that the problem has been solved, but, I think, that its intractability has sapped its interest. It is time for a new approach, one not beholden to the traditional analogical argument or neo-traditional criteriological arguments. That is what I undertake here. Let me prepare the way for my positive thesis by explaining why all traditional thinking that sets the pro…
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Weingrod, Alex (ed.), STUDIES IN ISRAELI ETHNICITY: AFTER THE INGATHERING, New York, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1985, xix + 361 pp., £34 or $49. Simon Taylor, PRELUDE TO GENOCIDE. NAZI IDEOLOGV AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER, London, Duckworth, 1985, 228 pp. £19.50
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Anthony D. Smith, THE ETHNIC ORIGINS OF NATIONS, Basil Blackwell, 1986, xviii + 312pp. £25. Barry Troyna and Jenny Williams, RACISM, EDUCATION AND THE STATE, Croom Helm, 1986, 138 pp., £6.95 Madan Sarup, THE POLITICS OF MULTIRACIAL EDUCATION, Routledge, 1986, 140 pp., £6.95. Elvi Whittaker, THE MAINLAND HAOLE: THE WHITE EXPERIENCE IN HAWAII. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, 223 pp., $25 Silvia Pedraza‐Bailey. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC MIGR…
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Katherine O'Sullivan See, FIRST WORLD NATIONALISMS: CLASS AND ETHNIC POLITICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND QUEBEC, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1986, 215 pp. £25.50 (h.b.); £10.25 (p.b.) Gundara, J., Jones, C. and Kimberley, K., (eds.), RACISM, DIVERSITY AND EDUCATION. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1986, pp. 192. £4.95. Vivienne Coombe and Alan Little (eds): RACE AND SOCIAL WORK, A GUIDE TO TRAINING, London: Tavistock Publications,…
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David A. Gerber (ed.), ANTI‐SEMITISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1986, 428 pp. John Darby. INTIMIDATION AND THE CONTROL OF CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1986, 183 pp., £25. Kenneth Liberman, UNDERSTANDING INTERACTION IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLE, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 344 pp., £29.95. Zig Layton‐Henry and Paul…
Inherited Power and Popular Representation: A Tension in Hegel's Political Theory
Affirmative action philosophy
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