The nature and value of scientific system building: the case of interbehaviorism.

From: The Psychological Record | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Clayton, Michael C.; Hayes, Linda J.; Swain, Mark A. | Copyright information

J. R. Kantor (1888-1984) developed and promoted an often underappreciated psychological system he called interbehaviorism that attempted to organize scientific values into a coherent system of psychology. Kantor insisted that in all scientific behavior the scientist needed to differentiate between constructs and events. If we were to develop constructs it would be only after careful observation of the actual events in context. He felt that his mission of forging naturalistic constructs for ...

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