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Current interest among behaviorists in public policy is contrasted with the minimal impact of behaviorism on contemporary American culture, in order to provide baseline information against which future developments might be compared.
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This article is based on a paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Philadelphia, May 1988.
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Lamal, P.A. The Impact of Behaviorism on Our Culture: Some Evidence and Conjectures. Psychol Rec 39, 529–535 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395080
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