Stability over time: Is behavior analysis a trait psychology?

Behavior Analyst

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-53

  Vyse, Stuart ^a  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral momentum; Behavioral stability; Dispositions; Molar theory; Moral attribution; Teleological behaviorism; Traits

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BEHAVIORISM; MOLAR TOOTH; MORALITY;

EID: 2642528020     PISSN: 07386729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03392091     Document Type: Review

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