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The research reported in this paper was supported in part by NIMH Special Fellowship F03 MH4714-01 to the first author while on leave at the Social Ecology Laboratory, Stanford University. The authors wish to extend their most sincere appreciation to Roger G. Barker and Paul Gump, who were kind enough to furnish us with the Behavior Setting Survey data that formed the basis of this paper. Thanks also are due to Professor Dan Ragle who aided with many of the details of copying and organization of information relevant to the survey. Finally, the authors wish to thank Roger G. Barker, John Monahan, Rudolf Moos, and Allen Wicker for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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Price, R.H., Blashfield, R.K. Explorations in the taxonomy of behavior settings. Am J Commun Psychol 3, 335–351 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00880776
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