ABSTRACT
This chapter is written for counselling psychologists who wish to conduct experiments that examine if and how an internal event, such as a belief, affects other internal events, such as emotions and inferences. As will be discussed, investigations of this sort are. indeed, lacking; and this fact may concern counselling psychologists who employ techniques that are based upon assumptions that one internal event affects other internal events (for example, the assumption that beliefs affect inferences and emotions). For those counselling psychologists who are concerned about this situation, our chapter explains how they can employ an experimental methodology to examine internal event-internal event causal hypotheses (i.e. hypotheses that posit that one internal event affects other internal events).
