Schedule Performance as a Baseline for the Experimental Analysis of Coordinated Behavior: Same or Different Units of Analysis?
The concept of metacontingency describes a contingent relation between the coordination of two or more individual's behavior and a selecting consequence. The concept provides several insightful avenues for experimental investigation of social behavior and behavior of people in groups. The present st...
| Published in: | Psychological Record Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 185 - 196 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2022
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