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Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition

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Correspondence to Einar T. Ingvarsson.

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This paper’s foretitle owes much to a discussion with Philip N. Hineline at the 2003 meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis.

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Ingvarsson, E.T., Morris, E.K. Post-skinnerian, post-skinner, or neo-skinnerian? Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, and Roche’s. Psychol Rec 54, 497–504 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03395488

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