Creating a strategy for progress: a contextual behavioral science approach.

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Published in Behav Anal on January 01, 2009

Authors

Roger Vilardaga1, Steven C Hayes, Michael E Levin, Takashi Muto

Author Affiliations

1: University of Nevada Reno.

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