If we are to make a study of behavior sufficiently reinforcing to hold the interest of young men in competition with inner mechanisms, we must make clear that behavior is an acceptable subject matter in its own right, and that it can be studied with acceptable methods and without an eye to reductive explanation. (p. 372)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 24: The Flight from the Laboratory. Quote 18
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