Why Behaviorism, to Survive and Triumph, Must Abandon Its Very Name: an Open Letter
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Direct contingency analysis has been shown to be important. Instead of this success providing a powerful foundation for major advances in all of the important areas of psychology, I fear that it is becoming a gold plated cage. My evidence: relatively narrow areas of interest are dominating the field, both applied and basic. We are not expanding, and a field not busy being born is a field that is busy dying. (Hayes, 2001, p. 61)
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