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If one facet of the primary goal of TEAB is to ensure its survival as a distinct discipline, then open participation in the science of psychology would be precluded. That is, participation in scientific psychology would place the survival of TEAB as a distinct discipline at jeopardy by allowing it to be evaluated relative to other approaches. Such ongoing evaluation could result in the assimilation of some behavioranalytic views into scientific psychology and the rejection of others. Thus, if behavior analysts do not have the goal of just contributing to scientific psychology but of survival of their discipline, commonalities with the parent discipline that might serve as the basis for assimilation should be kept to a minimum.
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Proctor, R.W., Weeks, D.J. (1990). Relation to Psychology. In: The Goal of B.F. Skinner and Behavior Analysis. Recent Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3394-7_4
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