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. 1991 Fall;14(2):145–155. doi: 10.1007/BF03392565

The experimental analysis of human behavior: Indispensable, ancillary, or irrelevant?

Alan Baron, Michael Perone, Mark Galizio
PMCID: PMC2733513  PMID: 22478094

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