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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 09 Oct 2006
Time: 06:49:18 -0500
Remote Name: 64.12.116.10
You know, Ellen (seems like I'm talking to myself by addressing Ellen at 6:30am!), measuring the influence of changing one's belief on one's behavior shouldn't be daunting. The easy part is to record the old, then the new belief and the date of adoption of the new belief. The harder part, of course, would be to establish a causal relationshp, statistically speaking, with changes in behavior, i.e., the emergence of new behaviors and/or the alteration of existing ones (one would expect noting both would be a requirement in an empirical study since that would be the consequence of altered belief). Anyway, I think the most challenging aspect of research design for this particular generic question would be to set the time lag between the onset of adopting the new or modified belief and the observation of changes in behavior since behavior change frequently follows its own time table and, also, deciding when the changes were established. Note: I did not suggest that there should necessarily be a prediction of what the behavior changes should/could be because there will be some surprises, but, I suppose, prediction could be an interesting factor. So, there, you see: Not such a hard task at all. Of course, those who adopt the principle in their personal life or with one or two clients could keep a journal of their progress implementing it and then submit their work for publication as a case study or studies. Accumulation of such data, would also help provide evidence for or against (while against would be counter-intuitive, from my perspective) the role of changing personal belief to change personal behavior(s). Well, I think I've said quite enough. Hope this helps ---- Ellen-Marie Silverman