Bernard Guerin
Biographic Data
| ID | 318223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Guerin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Guerin |
| SIGNATURE | GUERIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2773-0746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Forces that Shape Human Behavior: Combining the Behavior Analysis Approach with Social Science Knowledge for a More Exhaustive Framework to Analyze and Change Human Behavior
If we develop the main point of behavior analysis that human behavior is shaped by its environments or contexts, then we must be sure of covering all the main contexts that can shape human behavior in research and practice. Drawing on social sciences observations, this article categorizes these into three “forces” that shape human behavior simultaneously and independently. The forces are (1) societal forces which include economic, legal, bureaucr…
Observing How Groups Shape Individual Behavior: The Importance of Group Social Exchanges of Both Resources and Social Activities
A social contextual analysis is developed for groups and how they shape a large part of our individual behavior. This is done by following behavior analytic approaches and eschewing internalized causal explanations, and by drawing on social science observations to show more concretely how groups function and how this can be observed. The key point is that groups function by pooling both people ́s resources and people ́s social relationship activi…
Comprehensive Contextual Solutions for Behavioral Challenges: Observations from the Social Sciences Minus Their Mentalisms
The question for this paper is how we should go about changing the behavior of individuals when we dispense with assumptions of 'inner' causes and replace these with the simultaneous effects of shaping by interpersonal social relationships, groups/culture, and society on individuals. We briefly outline some contextual or behavioral ideas of how individual adult behaviors are socially shaped, using observations from social science. We then draw ou…
Delusions as Storytelling Gone Wrong in Bad Life Situations: Exploring a Discursive Contextual Analysis of Delusions with Clinical Implications
A contextual model of delusions drawing on discourse analysis is explored, which changes current attributional models to more concrete and observable forms of language-in-context. Most current models view delusions as internal beliefs that are the result of faulty reasoning or cognitive errors, whereas the present model treats delusions as natural discourses that have gone wrong or become exaggerated as strategies shaped by the person’s bad life …
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Low-Risk Ethics Applicants: A Qualitative Analysis of the Most Frequent Feedback Made by Human Research Ethics Proposal Reviewers
Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) reviewers often provide similar feedback across applications, which suggests that the problem lies in researcher awareness of key issues rather than novel, unsolvable challenges. If common problems can be addressed before lodgement by applicants referencing clear evidence-based supports (e.g., FAQs on common application shortcomings), it would improve efficiency for HREC members and expedite approvals. We ai…
Conceptualising Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara mental health beliefs
Objective: Very little is known about how Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara describe and explain mental health from their own perspectives without resorting to Western frameworks. This study used a social contextual research approach to describe how Anangu talk about behaviours that are called “mental illness” in Western contexts, their explanations about the contexts they believe shape these behaviours, and how Anangu support people who exhi…
Reimagining Therapy Through Social Contextual Analyses
Turning Mental Health into Social Action
This book offers a refreshing new approach to mental health by showing how ‘mental health’ behaviours, lived experiences, and our interventions arise from our social worlds and not from our neurophysiology gone wrong. It is part of a trilogy which offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social and societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal and individualistic attributions. ‘Mental health’ behaviou…
Contextualizing the mental health of metal youth: A community for social protection, identity, and musical empowerment
Metal identities are popularly represented as leading to mental health issues but with flawed evidence. We documented the community contexts around metal and well‐being by talking to young metalheads directly. We engaged in repeated, informal talks with 28 young Australians who strongly identified with metal (aged 18–24 years, 5 females and 23 males), and found that the metal identities and community protected them from mental health problems. Fo…
Analyzing Domestic Violence Behaviors in Their Contexts: Violence as a Continuation of Social Strategies by other Means
How to Rethink Human Behavior: A Practical Guide to Social Contextual Analysis
Developed from the author’s long teaching career, How to Rethink Human Behavior aims to cultivate practical skills in human observation and analysis, rather than offer a catalogue of immutable ‘facts’. It synthesizes key psychological concepts with insights from other disciplines, including sociology, social anthropology, economics, and history. The skills detailed in the book will help readers to observe people in their contexts and to analyze w…
How do you acculturate when neighbors are throwing rocks in your window? Preserving the contexts of Somali refugee housing issues in policy
Appropriate housing for refugees in Western countries is a major contributor to successful resettlement. Agencies responsible for refugee resettlement often find themselves contemplating whether to 1) house refugees close to each other (example, ‘ethnic enclaves’) or 2) disperse refugees to facilitate acculturation. We describe our community-based participatory research including in-depth interviews and ethnography with a Somali refugee community…
Analyzing Rumors, Gossip, and Urban Legends Through Their Conversational Properties
Combating Everyday Racial Discrimination without Assuming Racists or Racism: New Intervention Ideas from a Contextual Analysis
Combating prejudice and racism: New interventions from a functional analysis of racist language
Based on a conversational model of language‐use‐in‐social‐context, this article focuses on one particular form of racist and prejudiced talking that has not received enough attention—conversations in which racist statements function to maintain groups and relationships rather than seriously promote racism. Despite their casualness, such statements are still pernicious, and a range of potential interventions are proposed for this language function…
Putting a radical socialness into consumer behavior analysis
A neglected innovator in sports psychology: Norman Triplett and the early history of competitive performance
(1997). A neglected innovator in sports psychology: Norman Triplett and the early history of competitive performance. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 82-99
Social Influence in One-to-One and Group Situations: Predicting Influence Tactics from Basic Group Processes
Extrapolating from basic group properties such as the diffusion of impact and responsibility, two experiments were devised to examine differences between attempts to influence groups and attempts to influence individuals: Students in New Zealand rated how much they would use various social influence tactics to influence individuals and groups, and friends and strangers. Assertiveness and exchange tactics were reported to be used more with a singl…
Behavior analysis and the social construction of knowledge
Behavior analysis and the social construction of knowledge
A phenomenon of contemporary interest in social psychology is the social construction of knowledge – knowledge arising out of the interactions of people in communities rather than from interaction with nonsocial environment. A behavior analysis of such social constructed knowledge is presented, based on Skinner’s (1957) functional types of verbal behavior and the social contingencies that maintain them. Socially constructed knowledge occurs as in…
Measurement of the acoustic transfer function of the vocal tract: A Fast and Accurate Method
Speech production: Models, Methods and Data
Cognitive tuning sets: Anticipating the consequences of communication
Mere presence effects in humans: A review
Salience and Hindsight Biases in Judgements of World Events
The present study tested the effects of salience and hindsight biases on judgements of the likelihood of real and fictitious world events. Those events that are salient or have already occurred were predicted to be assigned overestimated probabilities compared to similar matched world events. In two studies utilizing four different types of events, deaths, revolutions, troop movements, and national independence, evidence for such biases was found…
Combating prejudice and racism: New interventions from a functional analysis of racist language
Based on a conversational model of language‐use‐in‐social‐context, this article focuses on one particular form of racist and prejudiced talking that has not received enough attention—conversations in which racist statements function to maintain groups and relationships rather than seriously promote racism. Despite their casualness, such statements are still pernicious, and a range of potential interventions are proposed for this language function…
Combating Everyday Racial Discrimination without Assuming Racists or Racism: New Intervention Ideas from a Contextual Analysis
Analyzing Rumors, Gossip, and Urban Legends Through Their Conversational Properties
Analyzing Domestic Violence Behaviors in Their Contexts: Violence as a Continuation of Social Strategies by other Means
Putting a radical socialness into consumer behavior analysis
Measurement of the acoustic transfer function of the vocal tract: A Fast and Accurate Method
Contextualizing the mental health of metal youth: A community for social protection, identity, and musical empowerment
Metal identities are popularly represented as leading to mental health issues but with flawed evidence. We documented the community contexts around metal and well‐being by talking to young metalheads directly. We engaged in repeated, informal talks with 28 young Australians who strongly identified with metal (aged 18–24 years, 5 females and 23 males), and found that the metal identities and community protected them from mental health problems. Fo…
Awareness of Cognitive Processes: Replications and Revisions
Nisbett and Wilson have suggested that people have little or no awareness of their higher cognitive processes. When asked to report reasons for choices and behavior initiation, they report a priori causal theories rather than introspections. Because of the important implications of this thesis for social psychology two of the supporting experiments were replicated. Experiment 1 (N = 102 male and female Ss) found evidence that Ss were aware of bei…
Salience and Hindsight Biases in Judgements of World Events
The present study tested the effects of salience and hindsight biases on judgements of the likelihood of real and fictitious world events. Those events that are salient or have already occurred were predicted to be assigned overestimated probabilities compared to similar matched world events. In two studies utilizing four different types of events, deaths, revolutions, troop movements, and national independence, evidence for such biases was found…
Mere presence effects in humans: A review
Cognitive tuning sets: Anticipating the consequences of communication
Measurement of the acoustic transfer function of the vocal tract: A Fast and Accurate Method
Speech production: Models, Methods and Data
Behavior analysis and the social construction of knowledge
Behavior analysis and the social construction of knowledge
A phenomenon of contemporary interest in social psychology is the social construction of knowledge – knowledge arising out of the interactions of people in communities rather than from interaction with nonsocial environment. A behavior analysis of such social constructed knowledge is presented, based on Skinner’s (1957) functional types of verbal behavior and the social contingencies that maintain them. Socially constructed knowledge occurs as in…
Social Influence in One-to-One and Group Situations: Predicting Influence Tactics from Basic Group Processes
Extrapolating from basic group properties such as the diffusion of impact and responsibility, two experiments were devised to examine differences between attempts to influence groups and attempts to influence individuals: Students in New Zealand rated how much they would use various social influence tactics to influence individuals and groups, and friends and strangers. Assertiveness and exchange tactics were reported to be used more with a singl…
A neglected innovator in sports psychology: Norman Triplett and the early history of competitive performance
(1997). A neglected innovator in sports psychology: Norman Triplett and the early history of competitive performance. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 82-99
Combating prejudice and racism: New interventions from a functional analysis of racist language
Based on a conversational model of language‐use‐in‐social‐context, this article focuses on one particular form of racist and prejudiced talking that has not received enough attention—conversations in which racist statements function to maintain groups and relationships rather than seriously promote racism. Despite their casualness, such statements are still pernicious, and a range of potential interventions are proposed for this language function…
Putting a radical socialness into consumer behavior analysis
Combating Everyday Racial Discrimination without Assuming Racists or Racism: New Intervention Ideas from a Contextual Analysis
Analyzing Rumors, Gossip, and Urban Legends Through Their Conversational Properties
How do you acculturate when neighbors are throwing rocks in your window? Preserving the contexts of Somali refugee housing issues in policy
Appropriate housing for refugees in Western countries is a major contributor to successful resettlement. Agencies responsible for refugee resettlement often find themselves contemplating whether to 1) house refugees close to each other (example, ‘ethnic enclaves’) or 2) disperse refugees to facilitate acculturation. We describe our community-based participatory research including in-depth interviews and ethnography with a Somali refugee community…
How to Rethink Human Behavior: A Practical Guide to Social Contextual Analysis
Developed from the author’s long teaching career, How to Rethink Human Behavior aims to cultivate practical skills in human observation and analysis, rather than offer a catalogue of immutable ‘facts’. It synthesizes key psychological concepts with insights from other disciplines, including sociology, social anthropology, economics, and history. The skills detailed in the book will help readers to observe people in their contexts and to analyze w…
Analyzing Domestic Violence Behaviors in Their Contexts: Violence as a Continuation of Social Strategies by other Means
Contextualizing the mental health of metal youth: A community for social protection, identity, and musical empowerment
Metal identities are popularly represented as leading to mental health issues but with flawed evidence. We documented the community contexts around metal and well‐being by talking to young metalheads directly. We engaged in repeated, informal talks with 28 young Australians who strongly identified with metal (aged 18–24 years, 5 females and 23 males), and found that the metal identities and community protected them from mental health problems. Fo…
Turning Mental Health into Social Action
This book offers a refreshing new approach to mental health by showing how ‘mental health’ behaviours, lived experiences, and our interventions arise from our social worlds and not from our neurophysiology gone wrong. It is part of a trilogy which offers a new way of doing psychology focusing on people’s social and societal environments as determining their behaviour, rather than internal and individualistic attributions. ‘Mental health’ behaviou…
Reimagining Therapy Through Social Contextual Analyses
Delusions as Storytelling Gone Wrong in Bad Life Situations: Exploring a Discursive Contextual Analysis of Delusions with Clinical Implications
A contextual model of delusions drawing on discourse analysis is explored, which changes current attributional models to more concrete and observable forms of language-in-context. Most current models view delusions as internal beliefs that are the result of faulty reasoning or cognitive errors, whereas the present model treats delusions as natural discourses that have gone wrong or become exaggerated as strategies shaped by the person’s bad life …
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Low-Risk Ethics Applicants: A Qualitative Analysis of the Most Frequent Feedback Made by Human Research Ethics Proposal Reviewers
Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) reviewers often provide similar feedback across applications, which suggests that the problem lies in researcher awareness of key issues rather than novel, unsolvable challenges. If common problems can be addressed before lodgement by applicants referencing clear evidence-based supports (e.g., FAQs on common application shortcomings), it would improve efficiency for HREC members and expedite approvals. We ai…
Conceptualising Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara mental health beliefs
Objective: Very little is known about how Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara describe and explain mental health from their own perspectives without resorting to Western frameworks. This study used a social contextual research approach to describe how Anangu talk about behaviours that are called “mental illness” in Western contexts, their explanations about the contexts they believe shape these behaviours, and how Anangu support people who exhi…
The Forces that Shape Human Behavior: Combining the Behavior Analysis Approach with Social Science Knowledge for a More Exhaustive Framework to Analyze and Change Human Behavior
If we develop the main point of behavior analysis that human behavior is shaped by its environments or contexts, then we must be sure of covering all the main contexts that can shape human behavior in research and practice. Drawing on social sciences observations, this article categorizes these into three “forces” that shape human behavior simultaneously and independently. The forces are (1) societal forces which include economic, legal, bureaucr…
Observing How Groups Shape Individual Behavior: The Importance of Group Social Exchanges of Both Resources and Social Activities
A social contextual analysis is developed for groups and how they shape a large part of our individual behavior. This is done by following behavior analytic approaches and eschewing internalized causal explanations, and by drawing on social science observations to show more concretely how groups function and how this can be observed. The key point is that groups function by pooling both people ́s resources and people ́s social relationship activi…
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Community Health and Development (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)