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A brief account of an interbehavioral field approach is presented. This is then used to analyze several examples of commonplace behavior that ordinarily are ignored by psychology. These can be seen as what have been traditionally called willing or, better, volitional acts. It is argued that the presentation offers an approach by which these can be studied without recourse to traditional metaphysical constructs. It is suggested that further attention to these behaviors would bring psychology closer to its potentialities.
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The authors acknowledge the helpful comments of Margery Brown, Paul T. Mountjoy, N.H. Pronko, and Douglas Samuels on a draft of this paper.
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Smith, N.W., Shaw, N.E. An Analysis Of Commonplace Behaviors: Volitional Acts. Psychol Rec 29, 179–186 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03394605
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