Human Sensitivity to Reinforcement: A Comment on Kollins, Newland, and Critchfield's (1997) Quantitative Literature Review

Behavior Analyst

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-41

  Derenne, Adam ^a   Baron, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Concurrent schedules; Humans; Matching; Meta analysis; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033448228     PISSN: 07386729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03391976     Document Type: Review

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