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Echoes from the Past: A Review of John M. O’Donnell’s The Origins of Behaviorism

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The complete citation for O’Donnell’s book is: O’Donnell, J. M. (1985). The origins of behaviorism: American psychology 1870–1920. New York: New York University Press. Preparation of this paper was supported by NSF Grant BNS-8416302, Principal Investigator A. W. Logue.

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Logue, A.W. Echoes from the Past: A Review of John M. O’Donnell’s The Origins of Behaviorism. BEHAV ANALYST 9, 199–203 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03391948

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