Waiting for supershrink: an empirical analysis of therapist effects

2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 361-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Okiishi ◽  
Michael J. Lambert ◽  
Stevan L. Nielsen ◽  
Benjamin M. Ogles
2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 248-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias R. Mehl ◽  
Shannon E. Holleran

Abstract. In this article, the authors provide an empirical analysis of the obtrusiveness of and participants' compliance with a relatively new psychological ambulatory assessment method, called the electronically activated recorder or EAR. The EAR is a modified portable audio-recorder that periodically records snippets of ambient sounds from participants' daily environments. In tracking moment-to-moment ambient sounds, the EAR yields an acoustic log of a person's day as it unfolds. As a naturalistic observation sampling method, it provides an observer's account of daily life and is optimized for the assessment of audible aspects of participants' naturally-occurring social behaviors and interactions. Measures of self-reported and behaviorally-assessed EAR obtrusiveness and compliance were analyzed in two samples. After an initial 2-h period of relative obtrusiveness, participants habituated to wearing the EAR and perceived it as fairly unobtrusive both in a short-term (2 days, N = 96) and a longer-term (10-11 days, N = 11) monitoring. Compliance with the method was high both during the short-term and longer-term monitoring. Somewhat reduced compliance was identified over the weekend; this effect appears to be specific to student populations. Important privacy and data confidentiality considerations around the EAR method are discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Xiao ◽  
Louis G. Castonguay ◽  
Rebecca A. Janis ◽  
Soo Jeong Youn ◽  
Jeffrey A. Hayes ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 525-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Zuroff ◽  
Carolina McBride ◽  
Paula Ravitz ◽  
Richard Koestner ◽  
D. S. Moskowitz ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Felix ◽  
Anjali T. Naik-Polan ◽  
Christine Sloss ◽  
Lashaunda Poindexter ◽  
Karen S. Budd

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