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From: mark
Date: Thu Jan 16, 2003 4:43pm
Subject: anyway- er NLP as a pseudoscience anyone?
ahem - your thoughts?
contributors to this list variously refer to NLP models / techniques as
if the were part of an established science - after conducting a review
of the academic literature available, i thought i ought to share my
findings
before that - it may be of marginal interest to you to learn the
following things from Derren himself
"NLP - it's an odd scene. I've been there and was put off by it "
"no I don't use hypnosis per se. I do use suggestion and so on but there
are no hypnotic inductions"
source;
http://www.geocities.com/derren_brown/dbmm/extra/ygroups_chat_with_derre
n.html
<http://www.geocities.com/derren_brown/dbmm/extra/ygroups_chat_with_derr
en.html>
bring it on....
* "Though it claims neuroscience in its pedigree, NLP's outmoded
view of the relationship between cognitive style and brain function
ultimately boils down to crude analogies. NLP basks in effusive
testimonials, but the National Research Council could unearth no hard
evidence in its favor, or even a succinct statement of its underlying
theory."
-- Beyerstein, BL. (1990). Brainscams: Neuromythologies of the New Age.
International Journal of Mental health, 19 (3), 27-36.
* ". . . N.L.P. Theory is not well articulated, its terminology,
premises and assumptions are ambiguous or poorly specified. As the
analysis in this article has shown, a basic reason for the theory's
inadequacies are due to its borrowings from theories that are
theoretically antagonistic to each other. . . . The conclusions from
reviewing the literature are that as a theory, it is undeveloped and
incoherent and that its techniques offer nothing new."
-- Baddeley, M. (1989). Neurolinguistic programming: The academic
verdict so far. Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy and
Hypnosis, 10 (2), 73-81.
* This study compared NLP techniques such as pacing, metaphor, and
phonemic devices to two much simpler non-NLP control conditions: a
direct-information condition and a placebic information-only condition.
No differences in attitudes were found among the conditions, but the
non-NLP direct-information control condition demonstrated significantly
more persuasion in behavioral measures, resulting in the opposite of
what NLP practitioners would predict.
-- Dixon, PN; Parr GD; Yarbrough D; and Rathael M. (1986).
Neurolinguistic Programming as a Persuasive Communication Technique. The
Journal of Social Psychology, 126(4), 545-550.
* Huge intercorrelations (hovering around r=.7) between subject
performance in different sensory modes resulted, which is the only
possible outcome that wasn't predicted by NLP.
-- Fromme DK & Daniel J (1984). Neurolinguistic Programming Examined.
Journal of Counseling Psychology 31 (3) 387-390.
* "The basic tenents of NLP have failed to be reliably verified in
almost 86% of the controlled studies . . . the inquirer in this field
may be forgiven for accepting the conclusion of Elich et al, (1985),
'NLP has achieved something akin to a cult status when it may be nothing
more than another psychological fad' (p.625)."
-- Sharpley, C. F. (1987). Research findings on neurolingusitic
programming: Nonsupportive data or an untestable theory? Journal of
Counseling Psychology, 34 (1), 103-107.
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