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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Saying-Doing Correspondence

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The study of the correspondence concerns the functional relationships between an individual’s verbal and non-verbal behavior. The analysis of the functional relations between saying and doing is interesting from a theoretical perspective (e.g.: how and when do they relate together? Learning to tell the truth etc.) and from an applied point of view: many clinical procedures, as verbal forms of psychotherapy, are based on the idea that changing people’s verbalizations about their behavior will lead to corresponding changes in the way they behave. Since say-do correspondence training has been employed in a variety of behaviors and types of procedures to examine the conditions upon which the arbitrary relationships between saying (promising or describing what to do) and doing is established, many experiments had been carried out to clarify the conditions that give rise to the emergence and maintenance of positive corresponding behaviors (Baer, Blount, Detrich, & Stokes, 1987; Baer, Detrich, & Weninger, 1988). Correspondence procedures facilitate the development of a relationship between a person’s verbal behavior (promise or self-report) and subsequent or prior nonverbal behavior; this relationship is developed by the differential reinforcement of matching verbal/nonverbal sequences (see Table 1).