Justifying the Justification Hypothesis: Scientific-humanism, Equilintegration (EI) Theory, and the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI)

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-106

  Shealy, Craig N ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI); Equilintegration (EI) Theory; Justification Hypothesis; Scientific Humanism; Tree of Knowledge System; Version of Reality (VOR)

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BELIEFS EVENTS AND VALUE INVENTORY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EGO; EQUILINTEGRATION THEORY; ETHICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; JUSTIFICATION HYPOTHESIS; LIFE EVENT; MODEL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; THINKING;

CULTURE; HUMANISM; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCIENCE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 12144255885     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20092     Document Type: Review

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