Cumulative Record. Chapter 19: Psychology in the Understanding of Mental Disease. Quote 7

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Several experiments are now in the literature in which an interviewer has skillfully shaped, by very slight reinforcements and punishments, the verbal behavior of the person being interviewed. (p. 302)

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