PRAGMATIC NIHILISM

Pragmatic Nihilism is a perspective on (health) psychology that facilitates dynamic theoretical integration, eclectic behavior change research and practice, and aims to help develop more effective behavior change interventions... Pragmatic Nihilism has been extended to behavior change methods/techniques as well. In this perspective, Evolutionary Learning Processes (ELPs) have been proposed as the foundation of behavior change. These ELPs have a lower level of psychological aggregation than Behavior Change Techniques (BCTs) or Behavior Change Methods (BCMs), representing the smallest presently known components of behavior change interventions (the closest thing to irreducible components of interventions, so to speak).