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A Science of Adaptation: the transnational origins of the American functional behaviorism of the 20th Century

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Introduction"… the historical approach to the understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter" (Boring, 1961, p. 3).This paper is a transnational historiography, and for our purposes, transnational historiography means the following: "When scientific knowledge flows between different countries, the ideas that emerge in one particular national context adapt to the new local contexts of A Science of Adaptation: the transnational origins of the American functional behaviorism of the 20th century.

Source: Revista de historia de la psicología

DOI: 10.5093/rhp2023a10

Author: David O. Clark

Institution: University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology

Subfield: General Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4386430971

FWCI: 1.178

Cites: 15

Cited by: 1

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