Social Validity: the Case for Subjective Measurement or How Applied Behavior Analysis is Finding Its Heart

Overview

Journal J Appl Behav Anal

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 1978 Jul 1

PMID 16795590

Citations 343

Authors

M M Wolf

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