Editorial: A Call for Greater Specification of Core Beliefs

Emanuele Maria Merlo, Liam Alexander MacKenzie Myles, Salvatore Settineri

Abstract


Recently, there is a growing interest in scientific dissemination. This is due, as highlighted in other contributions (Beck et al., 2019; Loi & Di Guardo, 2015; Montesinos, 2008; Settineri & Merlo, 2022), to choices made by both university institutions and individual scientists.

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Core Beliefs; Clinical Psychology; Associative Learning; Dynamic Psychology.

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