Malle's "folk psychology" update to attribution theory - any relevance to ACT/RFT?
Just in case anyone with knowledge of this is lurking - there is a nice paper in the Publications section on how standard attribution theory might dovetail with some of the observations of RFT/ACT on rigidity, reason-giving, etc. - this is Moore, M. T., & Fresco, D. M. (2007). The relationship of explanatory flexibility to explanatory style. Behavior Therapy, 38, 325-332.
OK. Meanwhile, as a layperson, I have been reading about the newer wrinkle on attribution theory originating with Bertram Malle (for many years at U. of Oregon, now at Brown U.). He calls his version "the folk theory of mind and behavior." Aside from a few recent papers I have mostly been reading his 2004 book, "How the Mind Explains Behavior." And this is where my question comes in --
I find Malle's theory more encompassing & powerful than regular old attribution theory. Without attempting to summarize it here (I would probably botch it), I am curious - has anyone in the ACT/RFT research community looked at this? Malle's technical vocabulary is of course different, being in the social cognition branch of psychology; moreover he is looking at how and why people in general explain behavior, rather than how behavior explanations might lead to psychopathology. Yet even so, I would expect there to be some pretty interesting cross-comparisons.
Any takers?
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