Steven C. Hayes (Author)
Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor and director
of clinical training in the department of psychology at the
University of Nevada. An author of forty-one books and nearly 600
scientific articles, his career has focused on analysis of the
nature of human language and cognition, and its application to the
understanding and alleviation of human suffering and promotion of
human prosperity. Among other associations, Hayes has been
president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive
Therapies, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.
His work has received several awards, including the Impact of
Science on Application Award from the Society for the Advancement
of Behavior Analysis, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
"The best ideas seem simple and obvious in retrospect. What, for
example, could be simpler or more obvious than the principle of
'selection by consequences?'And yet, when Darwin applied this
'simple and obvious' principle to phenotypic variation, we got
natural selection, biology's biggest idea. Then, about one hundred
years later, Skinner applied the same principle and gave us
behavior analysis; a view of learning (among other things) that
still has no serious explanatory rival in psychology. With this
volume, David Sloan Wilson and Steven Hayes have assembled chapters
by some of the most creative and rigorous minds in their respective
disciplines. Their collective efforts offer an updated and
elaborated account of these two big ideas, making clear along the
way what only now--in retrospect--seems so simple and obvious: that
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science are scientific
sprouts off the same conceptual root."
--James Coan, PhD, professor at the University of
Virginia--James Coan, PhD
"This is a remarkable and unique volume that will likely start a
paradigm shift in the behavioral sciences. Edited by the foremost
leaders in their respective fields, David Sloan Wilson and Steven
C. Hayes assembled a fascinating collection of chapters to derive a
framework for understanding and changing human behavior. If Skinner
and Darwin had been asked to write a book together after further
developing their ideas, this would have been the one. Evolution
and Contextual Behavioral Science will change the way you think
about humans."
--Stefan G. Hofmann, PhD, professor in the department of
psychological and brain sciences at Boston University--Stefan G.
Hofmann, PhD
"The human mind is different from all other animals because of our
cognitive abilities. It has given rise to extraordinary cultures
both good and bad, to cooperation, language, art, science, and
medicine but also war, slavery, factory farming, and the enjoyment
of violence. The key to understanding how the human mind works
requires an understanding of its evolved functional motives and
competencies, and their contextual phenotypic organization. What
nature prepares us with, our social niche grows, patterns, and
choreographs. This volume brings together two of the world's
outstanding and leading exponents on both dimensions, the evolved
nature of mind and the contextual choreographies of mind, partly
but not only through language. Together this range of contributors
provide a fascinating and scholarly set of writings with the focus
to integrate and cross-fertilize these two bodies of scientific
investigation. Together they take a deep dive into the link between
nature and culture. It's a must-read for anybody interested in this
fundamental analysis of the human condition."
--Paul Gilbert, OBE, PhD, is professor in the
department of psychology at the University of Derby, and author of
Human Nature and Suffering and The Compassionate
Mind--Paul Gilbert, OBE, PhD
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