Kavanagh, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y. & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2019). The Study of Perspective-Taking: Contributions from Mainstream Psychology and Behavior Analysis. The Psychological Record. In Print. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-019-00356-3
The key purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on perspective-taking from within mainstream psychology and behavior analysis. The primary focus will be on the behavior-analytic approach to perspective-taking, which is divided into what may be described as (1) traditional behavior analysis; (2) an area within behavior analysis that is concerned specifically with human language and cognition, known as Relational Frame Theory (RFT); and (3) an updated version of RFT that is used to provide the beginnings of a detailed and systematic account of the processes involved in perspective-taking abilities.