EMERGENCE AND METACONTINGENCY: POINTS OF CONTACT AND DEPARTURE.
The behavioral contingency and the metacontingency describe phenomena at different levels of analysis, the former at the individual level, the latter at the group level. The relationship between these levels is similar to the relationship between the physiological and the psychological levels of ana...
| Publicado en: | Behavior & Social Issues Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 78 - 104 |
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May2010
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