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. 1978 Summer;11(2):203–214. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1978.11-203

Social validity: the case for subjective measurement or how applied behavior analysis is finding its heart1

Montrose M Wolf 1
PMCID: PMC1311293  PMID: 16795590

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