From Laws of Learning to a Science of Values: Efficiency and Morality in Thorndike's Educational Psychology

American Psychologist

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1145-1152

  Beatty, Barbara ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0002293330     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0003-066X.53.10.1145     Document Type: Article

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